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The New Black Panther Party Is Not Alone...

... as special favorites of the Obama/Holder Justice Dept. J. Christian Adams, the DOJ attorney who recently resigned over DOJ?s handling of the Black Panther case, has a long and frightening expose of other examples of the Obama administration refusing to investigate or prosecute racial irregularities and intimidation conducted by black politicians.

Why such behavior? In Adams? view,

the best explanation for the corrupt dismissal of the case is the profound hostility by the Obama Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department towards a race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws.

This hostility was ? and is ? on open display within the Department of Justice.

In one case described by Adams, Ike Brown, head of the Democratic Party in Noxubee County Mississippi,

Brown ran a Tammany Hall-style political operation. During one election, he literally stuffed illegal ballots he knew were marked for black candidates through an optical scanner in front of a crowd of angry citizens shouting provisions of Mississippi law at him.

?You ain?t dealing with Mississippi law, this is Ike Brown?s law,? he replied.

Brown organized teams of notary publics to roam the county collecting absentee ballots. In many cases, the notaries cast the ballots themselves instead of the voters.

Brown took absentee ballots to his home the night before the election, and put yellow sticky notes on them instructing compliant poll workers ? whom he chose ? why the ballots of white voters should be rejected. The poll workers complied, and canceled their votes.

Brown imported ineligible black candidates from outside the county to run against white incumbents.

He allowed squads of ?assistors? to pollute the voting sites and impose ?assistance,? telling black voters how to vote inside the booth ? in many cases marking the ballots for the voters. During one election, teams of federal observers counted hundreds of verified examples of illegal assistance. Brown lawlessly disqualified white candidates from running for office. He published the names of 174 white citizens in the newspaper, and said they would be subject to challenge if they tried to vote.

And how was such behavior viewed in the Civil Rights Division of Eric Holder?s Justice Dept.? Lawyers in the division ?voiced explicit opposition to [Christopher] Coates [former chief of the Voting Rights division, until he was demoted and shipped off the South Carolina]

about investigating the discrimination. Superiors were reluctant to recommend to political appointees approval of a lawsuit. After the case was filed, the hostility continued. Most attorneys ? except one brave woman ? refused to work on the matter with Coates. Hostility pervaded the Voting Section, directed at Coates personally and also towards the theory of the case.

In his going away speech to the Voting section, quoted by Adams, Coates related that he

had many discussions concerning these cases. In one of my discussions concerning the Ike Brown case, I had a lawyer say he was opposed to our filing such suits. When I asked why, he said that only when he could go to Mississippi and find no disparities between the socioeconomic levels of black and white residents, might he support such a suit. But until that day, he did not think that we should be filing voting rights cases against blacks or on behalf of white voters.

America voted for a president they thought would be post-racial. Instead, they got Obama ... and Eric Holder.

Full post as published by Discriminations on July 05, 2010 (boomark / email).