Coates’ highly-charged testimony before the Civil Rights Commission echoed those allegations, as well as the testimony of J. Christian Adams, one of Coates’ colleagues in the voting rights section. However, Coates’s charges may carry greater weight because he worked decades ago as an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, has won awards from civil rights groups and lacks the partisan GOP resume of the department’s harshest opponents.We now have a US Prosecutor Coates who is leveling the same charges and more against the DOJ for dropping these charges. In fact the head of the Civil Rights Commission thanked Prosecutor Coates for the risk he was taking to testify when he defied his superiors. The DOJ ordered him not to testify but he declared himself a whistle blower and testified on Friday. Is Holder and and other Obama political appointees in DOJ using intimidation themselves to try to shut down the truth?
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| A Justice Department prosecutor says it discourages equal civil rights enforcement. Reuters |
Prosecutor alleges Department of Justice bias..This was clear cut case of voter intimidation from the video but because they are black some pundits seem to think that it was okay to drop the case. After all, blacks suffered through years of voter intimidation in the south according to some pundits. Even if true in the past, it doesn't give them the right to intimidate any voter today. Wonder how pundits would react if they went to vote and had these two guys standing in front of the polling place? Might be singing a different tune of voter intimidation.
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 9/24/10 10:52 AM EDT Updated: 9/25/10 9:01 AM EDT
A Justice Department prosecutor defied his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday, where he leveled an explosive allegation: top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white.
The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged “race neutral” enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. After President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office, the culture intensified, Coates told the panel, ultimately leading to his departure as chief of the voting rights section early this year.
“They have not pursued the goal of equal protection of the law for all people,” he said.
Justice department officials, however, have vigorously defended their management of the Panthers’ case, in which two members of the small group allegedly attempted to intimidate voters at a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 general election. Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler in a statement Friday derided the Civil Rights Commission for its “so-called investigation” that is “thin on facts and evidence and thick on rhetoric.”
"The Department makes enforcement decisions based on the merits, not the race, gender or ethnicity of any party involved,” Schmaler said. “We are committed to comprehensive and vigorous enforcement of the federal laws that prohibit voter intimidation.”
But activists on the right have complained that Holder and the White House did not vigorously pursue the case because the victims were white – a claim that has now become a widespread talking point among Obama’s conservative critics. The right cried foul last year when Justice officials dropped the case against the NBPP and two defendants for lack of evidence and sought a watered-down injunction against the bearer of a nightstick who allegedly carried it to threaten whites.
Coates’ highly-charged testimony before the Civil Rights Commission echoed those allegations, as well as the testimony of J. Christian Adams, one of Coates’ colleagues in the voting rights section. However, Coates’s charges may carry greater weight because he worked decades ago as an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, has won awards from civil rights groups and lacks the partisan GOP resume of the department’s harshest opponents.
In July, Adams told the commission that the pattern of prosecuting white suspects while ignoring minority ones was part of a “lawless” atmosphere, and the handling of the New Black Panther Party case led him to resign in 2009. Since leaving the department, Adams has been an outspoken critic on the right, appearing on Fox News and writing withering articles for conservative publications.
Commission Chairman Gerald Reynolds said Coates “appears here at great personal risk to himself. I’d like to thank Mr. Coates for his courage in appearing today.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42676.html#ixzz10Yk5QPBy
This wasn't the only case of voter intimidation in 2008 -- the intimidation against voters supporting Hillary has been documented in "We Will Not be Silenced" documentary by Gigi Gaston. Fox News has an interview with Gaston about the documentary that depicts the voter intimidation and fraud by the Obama Administration in the primary especially at the caucus level. Video and stories have been sent in by Democrats from all over the Country detailing the intimidation and fraud.
On their website,We Will Not Be Silenced is a longer preview cut of this documentary.
Is voter intimidation what lies ahead in 2010 since it has been sanctioned by the DOJ in 2008 or are they waiting for Obama to run again in 2012? Cannot fathom showing up to vote and seeing some guy holding a night stick dressed all in black -- not sure I would want to go into that polling place to vote. If that is not voter intimidation nothing is.
The bottom line of Obama and this Administration seems to be if it is voter intimidation against whites that is okay because it is payback. With that mentality it looks like whites do not have the same equal voting rights now as blacks according to Obama and the Holder DOJ. Blacks are permitted to do whatever they want to keep whites from voting is how we view their action. Will the Obama thugs be out in full force in 2012 to silence any potential candidate like they did to Hillary in 2008?
Every voter needs to be aware of their surroundings when they vote on November 2nd. If there any hint of intimidation they need to contact the authorities and document what happened. This voter intimidation in 2008 by the Black Panthers in the general election and the Obama thugs in the Democrat primary cannot be tolerated. Do we need foreign poll watchers now to make sure our elections are honest. After ACORN, SEIU, and the Black Panthers, it sure sounds like it.
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