Twice we have brought up unfinished business concerning the Black Panthers. The last time we asked why the Justice Department conveniently dismissed their case was 5-30-09. Mike at Common Conservative Sense addresses it very well below. We are printing here with his permission:
Posted By Mike from NC on September 3, 2009
You can read Mike's blog at: Common Conservative Sense
Earlier
this year, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to prosecute
members of the Black Panthers who dressed in paramilitary garb outside
a Philadelphia polling place last November. The men were brandishing
night sticks, pointing them at people, and making racial threats. In
the first week of January, the Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit
against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members, saying
they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring voters with the
weapon, uniforms and racial slurs. In May, Holder’s Justice Department,
against the advice of it’s own attorneys, dropped the lawsuit, even
though the defendants made no response, meaning Justice would have won
by default.
Then, on February 17, 2009, Mr. Holder enlightened us regarding his
opinion of the racial progress we have failed to make as a
nation. “Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic
melting pot, in things racial, we have always been, and we, I believe,
continue to be, in too many ways, a nation of cowards,” Holder said in
remarks to his staff in honor of Black History Month. His comments
appear on a transcript provided by the Justice Department.
Earlier in his career, Holder played a critical role in the pardon
of Marc Rich under former President Clinton. Rich was a commodities
trader who was indicted in 1983 on 65 counts of tax evasion and other
crimes. He fled to Switzerland prior to being prosecuted where he
avoided extradition. He eventually arranged to be represented by Jack
Quinn, formerly a Clinton White House counsel. Quinn went straight to
Holder, then Clinton’s deputy attorney general. According to Richard
Cohen of the Washington Post, “Holder was not just an integral part of
the pardon process, he provided the White House with cover by offering
his go-ahead recommendation. No alarm seemed to sound for him. Not only
had strings been pulled, but it was rare to pardon a fugitive — someone
who had avoided possible conviction by avoiding the inconvenience of a
trial.”
Now, Mr. Holder has indicated he plans to investigate members of the
Central Intelligence Agency regarding coercive interrogation
techniques, namely water-boarding, against terror suspects. At the end
of August, he announced his plan to appoint a special prosecutor to
conduct the investigations, over the public protests of Leon Panetta,
Obama’s head of the C.I.A. In fact, President Obama himself has said
his desire was not to look back but to move forward. The fact that
crucial information was obtained, preventing American deaths and aiding
in thedefeat of Al-Queda, seems to have become irrelevant. Besides,
this investigation has already been done once by the Justice
Department, and with one exception, there was nothing to prosecute.
So, our U.S. Attorney General refuses to prosecute clear and
obvious voter intimidation, even when the case is pre-won.
He apparently has no issue with tax evasion and fugitives from justice,
and believes we are a nation of cowards, racially speaking. But he is
eager to investigate the American patriots who obtained critical
information from terrorists who want nothing more than to kill
Americans and to destroy our way of life. How does this make us safer?
How does this further the pursuit of justice?
Is there anybody in this administration that doesn’t think Americans are the bad guys?
How’s that hope and change working out for you?
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