Former DOJ Attorney Alleges “Lawlessness” in Civil Rights Division

Shooting the messenger doesn’t work for me here. Selective enforcement of voting rights laws in indefensible, no matter which way it swings.

Maybe the reason he’s been on FOX is because it’s the only privately owned network and, therefore, doesn’t have to ignore the truth or lie like the other networks who are in the pocket of government. This man is giving up his life’s career for the truth. The video of the black panther’s blatant voter intimination is disgusting. I would feel the same way if it were republicans or democrats. Voter intimination is wrong and needs to be corrected through the law. The black panthers should be punished. Period!

Adams was one of the attorneys hired by Bradley Schlotzman, who was found to have “inappropriately considered political affiliation when hiring career attorneys”, and then purjured himself in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Adams’ tenure at civil rights was a product of discrimination and misconduct.
As to the allegations themselves, you would think an organization with the resources of ABC news would be able to report that Adams has serious credibility problems, not the least of which is he has admitted he has no knowledge of the meetings and conversations that he is attempting to point to as evidence in the matter.

This is constitutionally important and needs far more independent vetting. I hope it goes to court to become more transparent.

“But then the administration moved to dismiss the charges the following month after getting one of the New Black Panther members to agree to not carry a “deadly weapon” near a polling place until 2012.”…HAHAHAHA! I get it! No more voter intimidation with black uniforms and nightsticks..until the next presidential election! WOW!!

“So ABC “News” is two weeks late to the game”
He testified today which was actually newsworthy.
But hey FoxNews told you it was important 2 weeks ago so in your mind that;s the way it is.

Anyone that is defending the INACTION/Dismissal of these charges by the administration should be subjected to racial slurs and threats of attack the next time THEY vote. Perhaps then, they too would understand what is really at stake here.

My daughter is a blonde, 5’3″, 105 pound Temple grad student living in North Philadelphia. Do you think the sight of those two Black Panthers with their night sticks waiting at the door would have intimdated her and kept her from voting?….Mr. Holder?

“He is a liberal and life long Democrat”
Which is why he emphatically campaigned for John McCain in 2008.

“in which case the law is a weapon to be used against those who don’t agree with you..”
You mean like ACORN?

:If the video shows that the Panthers were intimidating voters,or even appearing to interfere with the election process,it should be investigated. To give them a pass is as racist as giving a pass to white voter intimidation efforts in the south in the 1950s and 1960s.There is no place for Affirmative Action justice.”
So 2 knuckleheads playing dressup outside a predominantly African American is the same as the murder and violence used against African Americans not just for voting but the same public drinking fountain?
I guess I should be amazed but we’ve done this dance too many times before.
Let me guess you are also angry that you can’t use the n word when rapppers use it all the time.

Ryan C wrote:”So 2 knuckleheads playing dressup outside a predominantly African American is the same as the murder and violence used against African Americans not just for voting but the same public drinking fountain?”
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Tough defending a party (DEMOCRAT) where a prerequisite to being elected is to have a “fleeting association” with the KKK according to Bill Clinton. He admits you HAD to be a RACIST to get elected as a DEMOCRAT. We already knew that DEMOCRATS would SAY ANYTHING, and DO ANYTHING to get elected and stay elected. Bill was just stating the obvious.

“Tough defending a party (DEMOCRAT) where a prerequisite to being elected is to have a “fleeting association” with the KKK according to Bill Clinton. He admits you HAD to be a RACIST to get elected as a DEMOCRAT”
And 60 years ago it would be true.
The Solid South as it was called, a near universal Democratic party governments in response to lingering anger over Reconstruction.
Of course, the Dixiecrats joined up with the GOP and it was the GOP which pursued the Southern Strategy which looked to capitalize on white anger and its the GOP which has been pursuing such a hostile governance against minorities, that African Americans vote 9 times out of 10 for the Democrat regardless of candidate or stance.
Hispanics are of course next on the GOP alienation check list.

Will this be on Good Morning America and the evening news? Why not?
Does the Obama Administration filter what is on the MSM?

Bigots defending bigots. Since the bigots aren’t white it apparently ISN’T news….
And the media’s fall into irrelivance continues…

Obama has done absolutely nothing to improve race relations in America.
With this Black Panther decision and the AZ lawsuit, Obama and Holder seems to willingly fan the flames of a potential race war.

“Adams testified that his superiors had stated that they had little interest in bringing cases against black defendants. “The section doesn’t want to protect white voters.” Adams said.” – ABC News
Huuummmmmmm . . . . .
This sounds like one of those race teachable moments Obama talked about early in his presidency. I’m sure he’ll get right on this one and have some sort of a beverage summit so that we can all learn what we are supposed to about race in America.
I can’t wait!
Maybe Holder can tell us something about being cowards.
Look how brave he was in dropping this case against the Black Panthers.

“The majority of smart intelligent Hispanics who understand what it is to be an American vote conservative”
And since the majority of Hispanics vote Democrat it’s just another way of saying Hispanics aren’t very smart when in reality they’re alot smarter than the conservatives who think think they would be foolish enough to vote Republican.

“If a group of conservatives, carrying nightsticks, stood outside a polling station and intimidated black voters”
It was called New Jersey in the 1980′s.
“Democrats claimed a Republican “ballot security” program in minority neighborhoods violated the federal Voting Rights Act. The program included using mailed sample ballots returned as undeliverable to compile lists of voters to be challenged at the polls and stationing off-duty police and sheriff’s officers near polling places.
The Republican National Committee chose to settle the 1981 suit by entering into the consent decree in November 1982.”
If no punishment and a promise not to do it anymore was good enough for the RNC, its good enough for the Black Panthers
BTW, the GOP was justed denied by a court as they sought to overturn the consent decree late last year.
Because its not like the right wing base is growing, so the alternative is voter suppression.

“The reason a majority of Hispanics vote Democrat is that the Nanny State Free Hand Out is such an alluring thing it temporarily turns their brains into mush when they get in the voting booth and so they vote Democrat.”
Wow I almost thought this was a namejack, its so blatantly racist.

Everyone is getting worked up over one diehard liberal “RYAN”. The majority of people here agree it needs to be taken to court and the media and administration is trying to brush it under the rug. Ryan is just upset because this might not allow groups like Acorn, ACLU, Unions, and New Black Panthers alter the out come of election. That is one of the reasons they are for illegal immagrants and against photo ID’s at the poles.

Where is Jimmy Carter when we need him…there is just no way to justify them not prosecuting these guys…there is video with them brandishing weapons. They are threatening people. What will happen in the next election? Whites wont be allowed to vote? Really if this was the other way around there would be such an uproar… there are 42 stories on this none of them with a main stream media except this blog… 1925 stories on Lindsey Lohan crying on the way to jail… why is the press ignoring this… can you imagine if this was Bush and Rove…. the fury would be all over the today show and cutie couric..sad state of affairs…. the DOJ drops this case but sues AZ…united we stand anyone remember those days….

It has been reported that these thugs did threaten a republican who lived in the neighborhood…an elderly black man… they told him to stay home and not vote or he would be hurt…he was scared and stayed home… maybe the media might report on that… this is a real story and the media is ignoring it to protect Obama and Holder…WHY???? What does the media stand to gain by hiding the truth? I just do not understand this madness…Is it that they can not admit they were wrong about Obama?
thank you steve…

What was worse was when you told your friends that you were voting for the other side.. some of mine never got over it.

“You wonder why fox is #1 in ratings….this is it.”
FoxNews gets about half the audience that ABC news does.

ryanc…Your favorite color wouldn’t be black would it???? Soooo your justification for unlawful conduct/racist conduct is all about retribution done years ago, terrorizing people at the voting booth, by generations long gone??? So why try to move forward when people continue to refer to the past when giving excuses to commit uncivil and unlawful acts??? The more I read progressive agenda, the more I am persuaded of their goal of massive confusion …starting over if you will….

I agree with Sue that voter intimidation should not be directed towards any groups. Black, Gray, or White Panthers have no business in obstructing the voting process.
Nor should the GOP have gotten away with their massive and blatant obstruction of predominantly African American voting districts in Florida during the 2000 elections. Not too surprisingly, the Voting Rights Division that Christian Adams worked in as a politicized appointee under Alberto Gonzales would only file two cases on behalf of AA voters, with one of them being a carryover from the Clinton administration. However, Mr. Adams is certainly adamant that the 2008 small scale incident with the Black Panthers is a serious and dangerous affront to the voting process.
I think it is, too. But I doubt if he and the GOP actually want the incident to be seriously pursued because that would be some serious tampering with a hornet’s nest of voting abuses. I’ll have to admit though that it does make god fodder against the administration and Democrats in the up and coming 2010 elections. It looks like the partisan influences in the media are running with it.

Flash Overdrive, the case was won and going for sentencing. The lawyer, J. Christian Adams was not a GOP operative. Adams has a long and distinguished record with the DOJ and more DOJ officials are coming forward everyday to support and to corroborate Adams’ statements about the DOJ. Stop the goofy talking points. This was voter intimidation and it was wrong.

“It was called New Jersey in the 1980′s.”
So, do you think it’s OK for conservatives to carry nightsticks to intimidate voters at polling stations, and not be arrested and charged with a criminal complaint? FYI, there is a difference between a civil complaint and a criminal complaint.

The case was not “won” – in fact, the case was never brought:
After reviewing the matter, the Civil Rights Division determined that the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the criminal statutes. Nota bene: that is the Bush Justice Department, not under Obama.
Civil Rights Commissioner Arlan Melendez noted that “no citizen has even alleged that he or she was intimidated from voting,” which “was clear to the Justice Department last spring, which is why they took the course of action that they did.”
The complaints have come from white Republican poll watchers, who have given no evidence they were registered to vote in the majority black precinct.

the civil case was won by default…the defendants did not show up. Lorraine King and her crew dismissed it after it was won.
To say there is no evidence is indeed blind justice. Look at the video..The guy has a BATON IN HIS HAND and is threatening people.
ANyway how would any one know what to believe since the media in general is ignoring the story and giving the DOJ a pass… Keep this up and one day this will knock on your door.
We have got to quit fighting amoung ourselves and get back to being the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…before it is too late…
the DOJ lets people who threaten vores go free and sues on of our own states for trying to protect our Borders…where does it end?
This makes no sense to let these people off the hook… what do you think they will do this year.. and why does the press ignore it?
There is VIDEO PROOF…if you cant see the truth with your own two eyes…then you just dont want to.

“So, do you think it’s OK for conservatives to carry nightsticks to intimidate voters at polling stations, and not be arrested and charged with a criminal complaint”
That’s exactly what happened.
The RNC basically signed an agreement not to do ballot security without court permission.
So good enough for the RNC, good enough for the black panthers.
Of course the RNC was doing so on a very large scale affecting thousands of voters versus two knuckleheads playing dressup but hey its not like right wingers have any sense of scale or proportion.
You guys just know what FoxNews tells you to be angry about.

“Since when do citizens need to prove they are registered to vote in order to file a criminal complaint?”
I imagine in November there will be quite a bit of effort to depress Hispanic turnout, poll watchers challenging people’s legal status and registration.
Its the right wing way after all.

Here’s what Abigail Thernstrom, conservative vice chairman of the Civil Rights Commission, wrote in “The New Black Panther Case: A Conservative Dissent,” published Tuesday in National Review:
“Forget about the New Black Panther Party case; it is very small potatoes. …In the 45 years since the act was passed, there have been a total of three successful prosecutions. The incident involved only two Panthers at a single majority-black precinct in Philadelphia. So far — after months of hearings, testimony and investigation — no one has produced actual evidence that any voters were too scared to cast their ballots. Too much overheated rhetoric filled with insinuations and unsubstantiated charges has been devoted to this case.”

Ya…flash is right, those white repubs need to stay on their own side…how dare they try to vote in a black precinct….

Black flash mobs are targeting Asians in Philadelphia. The local police are refusing to call it these incidents hate crimes. The mayor has said that Asians being targeted by blacks is not hate, but economic crimes.
Whites and Asians in Philly are not protected. Mobs run wild.

Flash, the Washington Times reported that the Department of Justice had taken the “unprecedented” step of dropping a case which they had already won by default judgment.
Take it up with the Times…

“Black flash mobs are targeting Asians in Philadelphia. The local police are refusing to call it these incidents hate crimes. The mayor has said that Asians being targeted by blacks is not hate, but economic crimes.”
What a shock that a right wingers has lied about a story.
Here is the ugly story of racial violence at a Philadelphia school and the probable source for the above exaggeration.
Philly Inquirer:”Having seen many of their classmates punched and beaten all day long, a group of Vietnamese students told teachers they feared walking home.
At the end of the school day Dec. 3, they left South Philadelphia High, backed by a group of adults including the principal, but still dreading what waited outside. Some ran ahead up Broad Street, separating the group of Vietnamese students from their escorts.
In moments, they crossed the street and were surrounded by assailants – mostly African American, but also Cambodian and white youths.
A crowd of more than 100 surrounded the Vietnamese students, who huddled together while dozens of attackers punched, pushed, and kicked them. A Cambodian female, repeatedly cited in the report, was the first to attack and described as the most violent.”

“ryanc Simply cannot be compared to thugs brandishing night sticks spewing racially charged insults at American voters who want nothing more but the opportunity to vote without fear of getting their heads smashed in…If you cannot tell the difference well….wait for it….you truly do not understand nor appreciate our freedoms of diversity and opinion”
Its kind of sad that you walk around in fear of minorities thanks to the sensationalized and often false reporting of the right wing media.
“.Time to put it in drive and move forward rather than reverse….Unless of course, you want to see retribution carried out…”
Exactly.
So why are you so upset about a 2 year old incident that is only getting play because of the partisan manuveuring of the GOP?

Liberal thy name is hypocrite. Clinton didn’t inhale or have sex, Kerry was in Cambodia, Gore invented the internet Edwards is a caring husband, Blogo didn’t try to sell the Senate seat, the media is not biased, East Anglia did nothing wrong, Hillary can’t recall what hapened to Vince Foster, New York Charlie’s taxes were an honest mistake, and the DOJ had good reason to dismiss this case. Wow! Really?

ABC News and all the other mainstream media have to stop this love affair with Obama and this administration.
Dismissal of this voter intimidation case is just one more example of our leadership leading us down the wrong road.
When are our news reporting agencies going to wake up and do what they they should be doing, reprot the news “ALL THE NEWS”
ABC, NBC, CBS and MSLSD should have been all over this story.
All I can say is when things turn around and this current regiem of soft tieranny falls the mainstream media won’t be far behind.

How is this NOT front page news? What Holder and the President have done to cover this story up is downright criminal. This administration is incompetent, criminal and corrupt to its very core.

Do you think any media will start to report all the news or just keep reporting the filterd news… do they get their marching orders from the WH? Why is the News not the news anymore? What happend to journalism? It is really weird….

Don’t Forget the New Healthcare CZAR!!Dr. Donald Berwick-He wants to ration care since Obamacare won’t be able to cover EVERYONE.
“This new healthcare czar will play a very important role in the implementation of the new ObamaCare law. Which explains why Obama chose to elevate Berwick to this new post without going through the usual Senate confirmation process, and also why he waited so long to make this move. This way there was no public hearing of Berwick’s nomination during the prolonged and contentious national debate over passage of the ObamaCare.”
DO WE HAVE ANY MEDIA? WHERE IS THE NEWS AND WHY AREN’T OUR REPORTERS AND JOURNALISTS DOING THEIR JOB? Robert Gibbs belittles any news agent that questions the government or he doesn’t answer their question.

Besides a knowledge of history; this is all you need to know:
“THEY CAME FIRST for the “domestic” terrorists” (right-wing conservatives; HR 1955),
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a “domestic” terrorist.
THEN THEY CONTROLLED the voting process (DOJ ignores NBPP intimidation)
And I didn’t speak up because I didn’t often vote.
THEN THEY CAME for the Christians and Jews (Obama: “we are not a Christian nation”;
Favors Hamas over Israel, HB 1388, and allows Iran to get nuclear weapons)
and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Christian or a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

The MSM needs to start REPORTING THE NEWS, instead of covering up for Obama and his APPOINTEES!! This will come back to bite the MSM… Do you wonder why people have ‘tuned out’? No news here!!

What really bothers me about this is—-if there wee white men standing with sticks dressed in militia-like outfits ranting slurs to black voters,,,you had better believe it would be all over the news and the DOJ would try the case with all the media fanfare. Classic reverse racism