CAN YOU FEEL THE BROTHERLY LOVE??
Well, he’s done it again. First he throws a Latino under the bus to save his administration from embarrassment. Then he appoints a racist Latina judge who was given an affirmative action appointment by the first George Bush (it was a, “I get a judge i want, you get a judge you want” deal with the Democratic congress, so drop the “appointed by a Republican” nonsense.) and she still hates white people. Now he has dismissed charges against the New Black Panthers who intimidated jews and non-blacks in voting areas in Philadelphia. Good luck attracting sensible voters Democrats. Course, there’s more than a few of you out there that think “Its about time” or “who cares?”. Thats what being a victim is all about, right? Never having to say you’re wrong.
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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.
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.
Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.
Charges brought against three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense under the Bush administration have been dropped by the Obama Justice Department, FOX News has learned. The charges stemmed from an incident at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day 2008 when three members of the party were accused of trying to threaten voters and block poll and campaign workers by the threat of force — one even brandishing what prosecutors call a deadly weapon.
The three black panthers, Minister King Samir Shabazz, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson were charged in a civil complaint in the final days of the Bush administration with violating the voter rights act by using coercion, threats and intimidation. Shabazz allegedly held a nightstick or baton that prosecutors said he pointed at people and menacingly tapped it. Prosecutors also say he “supports racially motivated violence against non-blacks and Jews.”
“Thats what being a victim is all about, right? Never having to say you’re wrong.”
You should know!
Is the quoted article attributable to any source?
#2, are you serious? My advice, turn off Katie Couric and look around. This is the Obama Justice Dept. Google it!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2009/05/29/charges-black-panthers-dropped-obama/
It’s the little blue one!
The charges against the individuals were dropped because there was no intimidation or blocking access to the polls.
The Fox reporter clearly stated in the news clip that they knew of no one other than a Republican pollster on the scene feeling intimidated.
The reporter also stated:
– No one was denied or blocked from the poll station.
– One of the individuals was an official poll watcher so he was allowed to stay by the police.
– The other individual was asked to leave by police or stay a distance from the poll so not to intimidate.
– The Fox news crew was also asked to leave or stay a distance away so not to intimidate.
Sotomayor accused of racism, hating white people and a affirmative action appointee is just silly.
She was second in her law school class at Princeton, has the best credentials (judicial and academic) than any one seating on the court when they where nominated for the court.
There are no examples of racism at all.
The claim of intimidation of Jews and non blacks was made up as was everything else on this blog piece.
Well, I’m glad that Lomeli can tell us there was no intimidation with armed thugs at voting booths!
Next time republicans want to monitor voting polls in shirt and tie, Lomeli will stand up and defend when there is no “evidence” of intimidation.
Are you freakin serious… what a windbag of momentous proportions. The mere presence is de facto proof of intimidation. The Left has gone freakin bonkers…
Princeton graduate belonging in the Supreme Court is the best example of affirmative action there is!
Students graduate defining the world by race, gender and class. If there’s someone less qualified to be a judge, they’d have to be in the fifth grade! LOL!
Terry,
I did not say there was no intimidation. The Fox reporter and the Federal prosecutors did. View the video you provided. I am not defending anybody . I am simply giving information reported by the conservative Fox News. Fox News is in no shape or form liberal, do you agree Terry?
So any Princeton graduate in any position private or public is by way of affirmative action Terry? I believe there might even be some Princeton graduate right wing Republicans in the mix.
“Wow”, right wing Republican recipients of affirmative action, how scandalous!!!
Terry just admit that the only two reasons you appose Sotomayor are because a Democrat president nominated her and because she openly embraces the Hispanic culture.
Is a shirt and tie the Right Wing Republican Faction’s uniform? I guess the rest of us Republicans should just dress casual from now on. LOL!
Lomeli
I said anyone up for the Supreme Court from Princeton is there via affirmative action. That is objectively true. They are unqualified to do anything in real life, except judge things from the prism of color, race or gender, basically unamerican.
Just admit that the only reason you support this candidate is because you a) are racist, and judge peoples qualifications upon the color of their skin or b) are a guilty white who hates anyone who thinks differently and wouldnt support a conservative latina.
“the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.
By the by, here is the reality, for anyone not too lazy to google.
Career lawyers pursued the case for months, including obtaining an affidavit from a prominent 1960s civil rights activist who witnessed the confrontation and described it as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/?feat=home_cube_position1
Career justice department officials were overruled by political appointees. That there was “no intimidation” is a lie, a fabrication, a sham and a canard.
Terry,
Dr. Lomeli is one of the most decent people I know. And guess what? He is a Republican. I suspect however that he will eventually leave given how the rest of you Republicans treat him and Latinos in general.
Sotomayor is eminently qualified for the Supreme Court. Do I agree with all her beliefs? No. But guess what? Obama won. It is his turn to appoint judges to the bench. Bush had his way for 8 years. The party is over for you Reeps…
Terry,
“They are unqualified to do anything in real life, except judge things from the prism of color, race or gender, basically unamerican.”
This is you.
Every blog piece you write here has these overtones or themes.
I only respond to your rants on these themes.
You can have a cow about the intimidation, but again, Fox News reporter made the comment of no intimidation.
The reporter stated they where called to the scene about intimidation at a poll station.
The reporter stated they did not find evidence of anyone feeling intimidated, except a Republican pollster that called them to the scene.
This is pretty stupid of him to do this and only opening the door for race wars to ignite. You have conservative republicans and even turncoat democrats who are just looking for reasons to take down Obama, championing the cause of the recession and getting those electoral votes to once again dominate Congress Rather than going forwards we are once again going backwards. I wouldn’t be surprised if our world ends up the like fictious arren wasteland shown in the Terminator movies without a computer meance but more warring parties, terrorism, and greed ruling supreme.
Lomeli
Ask some non-religious liberal friends how they would describe a person who attended only fundamentalist Christian or ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools from preschool through graduate school. “Brainwashed” and “closed-minded” would be their most likely answers, and they would often be right. Most people assume that any person who is exposed to only one way of looking at the world for all of his or her life can hardly be regarded as open-minded.
Now ask those same individuals how they would describe a person who attended only secular schools from preschool through graduate school.
Your friends would probably look at you with incomprehension. What kind of question is that? After all, they and the great majority of people in our country attended secular schools, and they consider themselves perfectly normal and open-minded.
“Brainwashed”? “Closed-minded”? Such terms cannot possibly be applied to the secular or the “progressive,” only to the religious and conservative.
But, of course, such a response is logically untenable. If a person is to be considered brainwashed for having only received a religious education, a person who
has received only a secular or liberal (as in politically liberal) education should be regarded identically.
In fact, when secular people and those on the Left deny this, it actually illustrates that they probably have been brainwashed. The secular/Left immersion they underwent has been so effective that it has rendered them incapable of realizing that they have been so immersed.
This is one reason it has become more and more apparent that the most closed-minded people in American and European society today are not the religious but the secular, not the Right but the Left. The majority of even fundamentalist Christians and Orthodox Jews are exposed to far more secular thought and behavior than the secular are exposed to religious thought and behavior. Virtually all religious Christians and Jews study secular subjects, have been taught by secular teachers, read secular books, and watch secular films and secular television. Virtually no secular people have studied religious subjects, been taught by religious teachers, or read religious books, let alone watched religious films or television, neither of which exists in any number.
The same holds true for liberals and conservatives. Virtually every conservative reads a liberal newspaper, watches liberal newscasts, reads liberal magazines, and has been taught in liberal schools by liberal professors. Few liberals have read a conservative newspaper (there are almost none anyway), read a conservative magazine, studied in conservative schools or been taught by a conservative professor (of whom there are also almost none).
So who exactly is more likely to be provincial and ignorant of other ways of thinking? The question is rhetorical. That is why the late distinguished University of Chicago professor Allan Bloom wrote his best-selling “The Closing of the American Mind,” not about religious or conservative America but about secular liberal America as embodied in its temple, the university.
That also helps explain why the secular Left (not yet a redundant phrase, but getting there) so often hurls epithets — “racist” (for opposing affirmative action), “homophobe” (for opposing the redefinition of marriage),
“sexist” (for opposing medically unnecessary abortions) — instead of offering reasoned responses.
As befits a person who has almost never been exposed to opposing ways of thinking, sustained argument is not possible.
It is amazing that facts-out-of-his-ass Crawley and his ilk, think that BASHING Princeton, THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY in the country, adds credibility to their arguments. One can only conclude that Mr. Crawley never made it past grade school, surprise, surprise.
If second in her class at Princeton was ALL Ms. Sotomayor had accomplished, we should be impressed, but Mr. Crawley FORGETS to mention that she also spent 5 years as a N.Y. D.A, 8 years in private practice, and 17 years as a judge (6 as a US District Court judge and 11 as a US Appeals Court judge).
Mr. Crawley has NO IDEA what “higher education” entails, by his standards any cracker with a bible would be the “ideal” SCOTUS candidate.
Terry ,
Then why are you so closed minded and hateful towards those that do not have your point of view of the world?
ANSWER:
“Brainwashed” and “closed minded” are traits of extreme and excessive behavior.
Other examples of extreme and excessive behavior are, overweight, drug addiction, anarexia, terrorism, extreme political views right and left, gambling, alcoholism etc…
Education at a secular, liberal, conservative or religious school has nothing to do with brainwashing and a closed mind. It is human individual EXCESSIVE BEHAVIOR PROBLEM.
Brainwashing and a closed mind, a result of extreme and excessive behavior, is the reason the individual murdered the abortion doctor.
Excessive behavior is a serious Psychiatric sickness.
I dont think Princeton is the most prestigious University in America. That’s Harvard. Where they’re so freakin ignorant they dont think there’s a difference between a man and a woman.
As a rule, the more education you have, the dumber you become in America. I am an exception. Masters, Poli Sci, Cal State Long Beach.
Favorite books: Slouching Towards Gomorrah, Road to Serfdom and Vision of the Anointed.
anonster, I’ve walked through more valley of horrors of liberal claptrap with people far more able than you and come out alive.
you “yawn” bore me.
LOL, Cal State Long Beach, hoooowww impressive. facts-out-of-my-ass Crawley, if that’s the “rule”, YOU are NO exception, ESPECIALLY WHERE GRAMMAR and SPELLING are concerned. Can you spell; dum hik.
“Excessive behavior is a serious Psychiatric sickness.”
Thats the first step towards getting better lomeli… baby steps…
Terry,
I hope you are getting treatment for it!