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To: Sully- who wrote (34352)	7/10/2010 7:34:20 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Whitewashing Black Racism Team Obama and its media water-carriers are exhibiting the very racial cowardice they once purported to condemn. Michelle Malkin National Review Online Why haven’t national media outlets reported on the vile and violent rants of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) thugs whose 2008 voter-intimidation tactics got a pass from the Obama administration? Simple: Radical black racism doesn’t fit the Hope and Change narrative. There’s no way to shoehorn Bush-bashing into the story. And, let’s face it, exposing the inflammatory rhetoric of the Left does nothing to help liberal editors and reporters fulfill their true calling — embarrassing the Right. This week, Justice Department whistleblower J. Christian Adams came forward with damning public testimony about how Obama officials believe “civil-rights law should not be enforced in a race-neutral manner, and should never be enforced against blacks or other national minorities.” In the wake of Adams’s exposé on how the Obama Justice Department abandoned default judgments against the NBPP bullies for the sake of politically correct racial politics, a shocking video clip of one of the lead defendants in the Philadelphia voter-intimidation case resurfaced on the Internet. It shows bloodthirsty King Samir Shabazz during a 2009 National Geographic documentary interview spewing: “You want freedom? You’re gonna have to kill some crackers! You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies!” These NBPP death threats and white-bashing diatribes are nothing new to those who have tracked the black-supremacy movement. In August 2009, nearly a year ago, I reported on a sign on display outside NBPP defendant (and elected member of Philadelphia’s 14th Ward Democratic Committee) Jerry Jackson’s home. It reads: “COLORED ONLY: No Whites Allowed.” In July 2009, I interviewed poll watcher/witness Christopher Hill, whom Shabazz and Jackson called “cracker” several times while Shabazz brandished his baton. “They physically attempted to block me,” Hill recounted. He also saw a group of elderly ladies walk away from the polling site without voting while the duo preened in front of the entrance. “If you’re a poll watcher, you shouldn’t be dressed in paramilitary garb,” Hill said, as he wondered aloud at what would have happened if he had shown up in the same sort of costume. In May 2009, I reported on the affidavit of civil-rights attorney and poll watcher Bartle Bull, who witnessed the NBPP thuggery in Philadelphia and reported on billy-club-wielding Shabazz’s Election Day boast: “You’re about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” In the fall of 2008, just days before he showed up to hector white poll workers, Shabazz told the Philadelphia Inquirer: “I’m about the total destruction of white people. I’m about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy. . . . The only thing the cracker understands is violence. . . . The only thing the cracker understands is gunpowder. You got to take violence to violence.” The desire to kill, subordinate, and demonize white people is a staple of NBPP propaganda. An NBPP Trenton, N.J., chapter “block party” music video posted on YouTube calls on black followers to “bang for freedom,” “put the bang right into a cracker’s face,” and “if you’re going to bang, bang for black power . . . hang a cracker. . . . If you’re going to bang, bang on the white devil . . . burying him near the river bank with the right shovel. . . . Community revolution in progress . . . banging for crackers to go to hell, we don’t need ’em.” Chanting “Black Power,” Minister Najee Muhammad, national field marshal for the New Black Panther Party, and Uhuru Shakur, local chairman of the Atlanta NBPP chapter, issued a pre–Election Day 2008 threat to “racists and other angry whites who are upset over an impending Barack Obama presidential victory.” Said Muhammad: “Most certainly, we cannot allow these racist forces to slaughter our babies or commit other acts of violence against the black population, nor our black president.” That’s rich, given that the only racists talking about slaughtering babies are the ones with New Black Panther Party patches on their puffed chests. If a tea-party activist threatened to kill the babies of his political opponents, it wouldn’t just be front-page news. It would be the subject of Democrat-led congressional investigations, a series of terrified New York Times columns about the perilous “climate of hate,” a Justice Department probe by Attorney General Eric Holder, a domestic terror alert from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and another Important Teachable Moment Speech/Summit from Healer-in-Chief Barack Obama. But with the racism shoe on the other foot, Team Obama and its media water-carriers are exhibiting the very racial cowardice Holder once purported to condemn. Thanks to Obama’s feckless Department of Injustice, these black-supremacist brutes are free to show up on the next national Election Day at polling places in full paramilitary regalia with nightsticks, hurling racist, anti-American epithets at those exercising their right to vote and at those protecting the integrity of the electoral process. The reaction of our national media watchdogs: Shhhhhhhh. — Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies (Regnery 2010). © 2010 Creators Syndicate, Inc. .

To: Sully- who wrote (34352)	7/19/2010 10:13:45 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

Even the most hardened racist Southern white sheriff of liberal memory would have had the decency to cloak his racism in a euphemism, the tribute that vice pays to virtue. But in these Obama times..... Free at Last: Endgame of Liberal Racism By Christopher Chantrill American Thinker Back when they were asking us if we were ready for a black president, we all know what Americans were thinking. If we elect a black president, could we do a deal? Could we stop calling everyone racists? It was easy back then to indulge in a hope for change. Back in July 2004, State Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) wowed the political nation with his keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention: <<< Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America. >>> That was the hope. Under President Obama, there's change: Liberal racism is worse than ever. Americans don't believe in taking that kind of change lying down. So it's time to bring out the great American one-liners. "Mr. President, Don't Tread on Me." Six years later, Americans are feeling like Charlie Brown after Lucy snatched the football away, one more time. It's clear that whatever young Barack said back then, the Obama administration today believes in full frontal race politics. In the words of Department of Justice whistle-blower J. Christian Adams: <<< [T]here is an open and pervasive hostility within the DOJ towards using the voting laws to protect all races. Instead, the laws are viewed by many in the DOJ -- particularly by the political leadership, such as Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes -- only as tools to protect national racial minorities and increase their voter turnout. >>> But it is now becoming clear that liberal race politics is coming to an end. "Mr. President, what do you think I am, dumb or something?" It is coming to an end not because President Obama is delivering on his promise of July 2004, or because he has cunningly finessed his promise. It is coming to an end because he and his administration are so clumsily reneging on his promise. After electing a black president and being forced to view the moral quagmire of President Obama siding with a powerful black celebrity against a humble Cambridge, MA cop; after experiencing the U.S. Department of Justice bailing on the most blatant voter intimidation case in our lifetimes; after the naked hypocrisy of the Obama administration suing the State of Arizona for presuming to enforce laws that the feds don't care to enforce; after the "N"-word claims that didn't hunt; after all that, Americans are about to tell President Obama and the Democrats and the liberals and the professional race hustlers to get lost. "Frankly, Mr. President, I don't give a damn." Even the most hardened racist Southern white sheriff of liberal memory would have had the decency to cloak his racism in a euphemism, the tribute that vice pays to virtue. But in these Obama times, we have, in New Black Panther leader King Samir Shabazz, a man whose racist rants would be outrageous if they weren't so comical. And they said that President Bush was stupid. For one shining hour in the 1960s, liberals stood tall on race. They passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s even though President Lyndon Johnson lamented that Democrats would lose the South for a generation. Let us honor our liberal friends for that. In that liberal hour, Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) famously declared that he would personally eat the Civil Rights Bill if it contained anything to do with quotas. But the moment the Civil Rights Act was signed, liberals resumed identity politics as usual. African-Americans became just another identity group whose support liberals bought with our money. It's hard to remember now, but there was a time when liberals, in their 19th-century clothes as Progressives, utterly deplored identity politics and the blatant corruption of big-city political machines. It wasn't 'til FDR came along that the modern Democratic Party was created by combining high-minded liberalism with down-market corruption in a single-minded pursuit of power and loot. The liberals came up with the high-minded rationalizations, and the machine politicians did the actual cheating for them. So now, the identity politics that Progressives sneered at has become the defining philosophy of modern liberalism. Let us paraphrase Dirty Harry's famous one-liner. Go ahead, Mr. President. Send out more of these comically inept racists and ward-heeler Justice Department attorneys to racialize the enforcement of federal law. You are doing the work of conservative activists for them. Americans have always argued about justice, and we always will. But we Americans react to injustice with cold fury. "Mr. President, we have just begun to fight." Christopher Chantrill is a frequent contributor to American Thinker. See his roadtothemiddleclass.com and usgovernmentspending.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming. .

To: Sully- who wrote (34352)	7/20/2010 2:56:56 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

No, Dubya Did Not Whitewash the New Black Panther Party The newest liberal meme — that Bush’s DOJ, not Obama’s, dropped charges against the NBPP — doesn’t square with the timeline. Deroy Murdock National Review Online MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and other left-wing commentators have been busy high-fiving each other over “proof” that none other than George W. Bush was to blame for the Justice Department’s whitewash of the New Black Panther Party’s intimidation of voters on Election Day, 2008. (American leftists cannot resist the temptation to blame Bush for everything, up to and perhaps including their own dental cavities.) But the facts keep the focus squarely on the Obama administration for letting the NBPP intimidate voters with impunity. As Olbermann said on July 12’s Countdown, “So, here’s the real story Fox and other malefactors of mankind will not tell you, based not on rumors nor innuendo, but court and congressional records. New Black Panthers, intimidating voters, killing cracker babies, Bush didn’t prosecute.” Olbermann, recently fired Washington Post analyst Dave Weigel, and The American Prospect’s Adam Serwer have all crowed that Bush’s Justice Department dropped a criminal case against the NBPP. In fact, there never was a criminal case to drop. The NBPP faced a civil lawsuit prepared by Justice’s Voting Rights unit. This is exactly what career prosecutors recommended in the first place. With respect to all but one defendant, Justice abandoned its civil case under Obama, not Bush — no matter what Olbermann and his comrades would like to believe. This slide, presented by David Blackwood, general counsel of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), at its July 6 meeting, lays out some of the relevant details. Or consider the following, more detailed timeline, which shows that Obama, not Bush, let the NBPP and two of its leaders run free, leaving a third NBPP leader to endure something resembling less of a wrist slap and more of a wrist massage: November 4, 2008: The New Black Panther Party’s Jerry Jackson and Minister King Samir Shabazz intimidate voters and poll watchers at a Philadelphia precinct. December 22, 2008: Career Justice Department attorneys Christopher Coats (chief of the Voting Section), Robert Popper (deputy chief), and trial attorney J. Christian Adams submit a memorandum to then–acting assistant attorney general Grace Chung Becker. They call for civil litigation against the NBPP and three of its members for violating the Voting Rights Act: “We propose seeking a remedy that prohibits the members of the NBPP from deploying athwart the entry of polling places in future elections.… We recommend that you consider simply authorizing the commencement of a lawsuit.” This document makes no mention of criminal charges. January 7, 2009: In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Justice Department files a civil lawsuit in Philadelphia against the NBPP as a party and against three of its members: party chief Malik Zulu Shabazz, Jerry Jackson, and Minister King Samir Shabazz. January 20, 2009: Pres. George W. Bush leaves office and Barack Obama is inaugurated as president of the United States. Over the next few months, the NBPP ignores the Justice Department’s lawsuit. It neither shows up in court nor otherwise responds to this federal case. April 17, 2009: The U.S. District Court in Philadelphia rules the NBPP defendants in default and orders the Justice Department to present a motion for default judgment by May 1, 2009. May 1, 2009: The DOJ asks for and receives an extension on this deadline. Between May 1 and May 15, 2009: A raucous debate erupts between career prosecutors, who want to proceed with the default judgment and punish the NBPP, and Obama’s political appointees, who prefer to drop the case. May 15, 2009: According to former federal prosecutor J. Christian Adams’s July 6, 2010, testimony before the USCCR, Obama appointees order him and other career prosecutors to tell the federal court that Justice intends to dismiss charges against three of this case’s four defendants: Jerry Jackson, Malik Zulu Shabazz, and the NBPP itself. May 18, 2009: In his decision, U.S. District Court Judge Stewart Dalzell recognizes that “the Government has voluntarily dismissed all of the other defendants in this case pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 41(a)(1)(A)(i).” Furthermore, he agrees to the Obama Justice Department’s suggested penalty against the only party actually sanctioned in this case. “The defendant Minister King Samir Shabazz is enjoined from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of any open polling location on any election day in the City of Philadelphia,” Judge Dalzell rules. “This Court shall maintain jurisdiction over this matter until November 15, 2012 to enforce this Order as necessary.” Judge Dalzell explains that his ruling “only prohibits the defendant from displaying a specific type of object at a focused area.” Thus, Minister King Samir Shabazz is not legally restricted from shaking his baton at voters 105 feet from the polls. He is not prevented from doing whatever he wants at the polls in Pittsburgh, Pensacola, or Palm Springs. And after November 16, 2012, he can do whatever on earth he wants at the polls, wherever he wishes. That “punishment” aside, the Obama administration let the New Black Panther Party get away with voter intimidation scot free. Those are the facts. As Ronald Wilson Reagan once said: “Facts are stubborn things.” — New York commentator Deroy Murdock is a nationally syndicated columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. .