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March 01, 2011
Categories:Obama Administration.Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans 'my people'
www.politico.com
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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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I wonder when Holder is going to be ready for that conversation.
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How Attorney General Eric Holder Colluded With Bank Of America To Destroy Wikileaks
Daily Bell ^ | 2/28/2011 | Staff
When we wrote a few weeks ago about Eric Holder, Wikileaks and Bank of America, we focused on the irony of the U.S. Attorney General threatening to prosecute an organization (Wikileaks) that possibly holds the very information on which he might draw up his very first indictment of a major bank or Wall Street executive.
Why hasn't Eric Holder asked to see the evidence, which Wikileaks claims to have, that executives at one of our largest banks may have committed serious crimes?
Let's be honest, Holder doesn't really give a rip about financial crimes, but the media should at least be asking him why he doesn't want to see the evidence. We know he'd love to get his hands on Julian Assange's hard drive -- why doesn't he want to see Brian Moynihan's (or Ken Lewis's)?
For some reason, Holder and the rest of the Obama administration would rather endanger our Constitutional rights to due process and a free press by persecuting journalists on specious charges, than to actually do their job and enforce the law.
These are valid questions -- ones for which we really didn't have good answers other than the usual corruption, cowardice and ineptitude when it comes to prosecuting large financial institutions.
However, new information has surfaced that shines a whole new light on the situation. By now, most of you have heard about Bank of America's plans to go after Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald. Until they were caught, Bank of America was working with a group of law and cyber security firms to draw up plans for destroying Wikileaks, the hacker group Anonymous, as well as Wikileaks supporters in the media (like Greenwald). The slide here is from a presentation by one of the firms involved:
(Excerpt) Read more at dailybail.com ...
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Holder also thinks that Uncle Ben is his great uncle on his mothers side. Typical response from a braindead, unqualified partisan hack who can't put two coherent thoughts together without playing the race card like a stereotypical buffoon.
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Another embarrassment for this nation.
FUEH!
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Another embarrassment for this nation.
FUEH!
I think Holder's right in the sense that we can't act as though this was the most egregious voter crime in memory, etc. But, he's brought a lot of headache on himself refusing to go after these morons. Hell, at the very least, he could've tried.
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I disagree. For a loudmouth "brother" with an attitude who took office and promptly called the American public cowards on the issue of race, he should stfu and take his medicine like a man.
Time and time again he has promoted the "get whitey" approach at DOJ while giving terrorists, negro criminals, illegal aliens and other undesirables everything but the kitchen sink.
He has been a disgrace as an AG, by far the worst of a bad bunch in terms of President Osama appointees and America is sick of listening to his shit.