{"id":10998,"date":"2009-05-29T05:47:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10998"},"modified":"2009-05-29T05:47:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T10:47:57","slug":"doj-wont-prosecute-voter-intimidation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10998","title":{"rendered":"DOJ won’t prosecute voter intimidation case"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m pretty sure you all remember the case of Black Panthers intimidating voters<\/a> at a Philadelphia polling station last election. Well, The Washington Times<\/a> reports this morning that career prosecutors at the Department of Justice were ready to drop the hammer on three men involved in the incident, but they were prevented from prosecuting by their superiors;<\/p>\n

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.<\/p>\n

The incident – which gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube – had prompted the government to sue the men, saying they violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act by scaring would-be voters with the weapon, racial slurs and military-style uniforms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it was a slam dunk – they were caught on video declaring “A Black Man will win today” and intimidating voters. Not like those unfounded cases we heard about in the 2000 and 2004 elections that the EEOC investigated and couldn’t prove happened, yet blamed Republicans anyway.<\/p>\n

This is a bigger scandal than the Bush Administration firing a few lawyers at DOJ – the Obama Administration has decided that they won’t prosecute voter rights cases as long as the voter rights being violated are those of Republicans. So we can expect the New York Times and the Washington Post to be all over this, huh? Eric Holder will be named Keith Olbermann’s Worst Person of the Week, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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