This is the same guy King Shabbaz something or other in the video I posted before this. This is WRONG no matter what race is doing it. ALL "AMERICAN" VOTERS NEED TO BE PROTECTED FROM EXACTLY THIS KIND OF BLATANT INTIMIDATION.
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Investor's Business Daily
written by IBD Editor
Wednesday June 7, 2010
Justice: A former top official charges the Justice Department with practicing racial politics and selective prosecution in the Black Panther voter-intimidation case. Are we a "nation of cowards," or is it just Holder's DOJ?
In February, on the occasion of Black History Month, Attorney General Eric Holder called the United States a "nation of cowards" regarding discussions of race even as his department was failing to prosecute one of the clearest cases of voter intimidation in American history because the defendants were black militants, members of the New Black Panther Party.
Holder said that "we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial." Okay, let's talk, starting with Tuesday's testimony of J. Christian Adams, a former career DOJ attorney in the Voting Rights Section. Adams resigned over DOJ's handling of the Black Panther case and DOJ's refusal to honor Civil Rights Commission subpoenas, including ordering Adams not to comply.
On Election Day 2008, New Black Panther party members King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson engaged in activities that resulted in charges in a civil complaint of violating the Voting Rights Act through intimidation, threats and coercion, as they stood dressed in military garb outside a Philadelphia polling place.
The video of the event, photos and witness testimony presented an open-and-shut case ripe for DOJ prosecution. The Justice Department under President George W. Bush filed criminal charges against the three men. Holder's Justice Department would later drop the charges in a plea deal in which the baton-brandishing thugs promised not to do it again in Philadelphia until 2012. They walked, free to intimidate elsewhere.
On Tuesday, Adams gave the testimony his bosses tried to block, telling the Civil Rights Commission how Holder's department refused to prosecute what he has called "the clearest case of voter intimidation that I've seen since practicing law."
At an April 23 Commission hearing, witnesses testified to how the Black Panthers acted in concert, threatening black Republicans and whites who showed up. Two witnesses testified that they saw some would-be voters turn back and leave without voting after seeing the nightstick and being called "white devils."
Yet Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights, testified before the commission in April that "the facts did not constitute a prosecutable violation of the federal criminal civil rights statutes." Say what?
"After reviewing the evidence, the department concluded that there was insufficient evidence to establish that the party or Malik Zulu Shabazz violated Section 11(b)," Perez said in his testimony.
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