Green Energy
Dear Mr. Holder,
Aren't you supposed to be protecting the rights of THE people, not just YOUR people?
Regards,
We THE People
Politico:
Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'
Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.
Holder's frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation into the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.
The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.
"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate....to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people," said Holder, who is black.
Holder noted that his late sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, helped integrate the University of Alabama.
"To compare that kind of courage, that kind of action, to say some Black Panther incident is of greater concern to us, historiclally, I think just flies in the face of history," Holder said with evident exasperation.
In a series of questions and comments earlier in the hearing, Culberson insisted that race had infected the decision-making process. "There’s clearly overwhelming evidence that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African-Americans to vote," the Texas Republican said. "There's a double standard here."
"This Department of Justice does not enforce the law on the basis of race," Holder insisted.
Rep. Chakah Fattah, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said the Black Panthers "should not have been there." But he said the GOP was making too much out of a fleeting incident involving a couple of people.
"The most unethical thing a person can do is make allegations based on absolutely nothing," Fattah said. "The only issue of race is singling out this particular decision...That this rises to national significance is boguson its face."
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Green Energy
Dear Mr. Holder,
Aren't you supposed to be protecting the rights of THE people, not just YOUR people?
Regards,
We THE People
Politico:
Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'
Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.
Holder's frustration over the criticism became evident during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing as Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) accused the Justice Department of failing to cooperate with a Civil Rights Commission investigation into the handling of the 2008 incident in which Black Panthers in intimidating outfits and wielding a club stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia.
The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.
"Think about that," Holder said. "When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia, which was inappropriate....to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people," said Holder, who is black.
Holder noted that his late sister-in-law, Vivian Malone Jones, helped integrate the University of Alabama.
"To compare that kind of courage, that kind of action, to say some Black Panther incident is of greater concern to us, historiclally, I think just flies in the face of history," Holder said with evident exasperation.
In a series of questions and comments earlier in the hearing, Culberson insisted that race had infected the decision-making process. "There’s clearly overwhelming evidence that your Department of Justice refuses to protect the rights of anybody other than African-Americans to vote," the Texas Republican said. "There's a double standard here."
"This Department of Justice does not enforce the law on the basis of race," Holder insisted.
Rep. Chakah Fattah, a Democrat from Philadelphia, said the Black Panthers "should not have been there." But he said the GOP was making too much out of a fleeting incident involving a couple of people.
"The most unethical thing a person can do is make allegations based on absolutely nothing," Fattah said. "The only issue of race is singling out this particular decision...That this rises to national significance is boguson its face."
- Then, Mr. Holder, I Guess You Have Never Heard Of Robert Bork
ABC News:Fed-Up Eric Holder Rips Congress: ‘Unprecedented, Unwarranted, Ugly and Divisive’A fed-up Attorney General Eric Holder is accusing congressional critics of launching “unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive” attacks on him and the...
- Report: Obama’s Dod Slaps Gag Order On Fort Hood Survivors & Family Members
Read it at Red State. Holder refused to follow through on the Prosecution of the Black Panthers in the Voter Intimidation case, because, as he put it, the case demeans "my people." I think we have to consider the idea that Nidal Hasan is also "my people"...
-
Vote postponed on New Black Panthers report after Democrat walks out - Report was to say High-Level DOJ Officials were involved in decision to dismiss New Black Panthers Voter Intimidation Case Michael Yaki (WaPo) –A federal commission had to postpone...
- Important : Inside The Black Panther Case Anger, Ignorance And Lies - The Dismissal Raises Serious Questions About The Department's Enforcement Neutrality In Upcoming Midterm Elections And The Subsequent 2012 Presidential Election
BUMPED TO THE TOP BY ALWAYS ON WATCH When integrity is violated in free elections, a free society no longer exists. Federal Prosecutor Quits Over Order to Dismiss Black Panther Case From the Washington Times, with thanks to Will: On the day President...
- Whitewashing The Black Panthers: Obama And Holder Fire The Doj Section Head Who Brought The Case Against The Black Panthers
From Reliapundit, the Astute Blogger: THEY DROPPED THE BLACK PANTHER CASE IN JUNE. NOW, THEY'VE "TRANSFERRED" THE DOJ SECTION CHIEF WHO BROUGHT THE CHARGES! UNBELIEVABLE. IMPEACHABLE. HOLDER THAT IS. AND THEN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. AND TO TOP IT OFF,...