United States Attorney General, Eric Holder — supposedly the top law enforcement authority in the country — has refused to enforce voter intimidation laws against the man shouting about killing “crackers” and “cracker babies” in this video …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBhzJnJIilI
If you think racism is wrong — and you think the law needs to be applied equally to everyone; blind to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc — then you need to be up in arms about this case!
This case was a slam dunk for the Department of Justice. The video evidence is here »»»
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…that two men from the New Black Panther Party were intimidating voters outside of a Philadelphia polling place on November 4, 2008 – the day this nation elected its first Black President. A day that was a proud day for many Americans, a bittersweet day for some, and a nightmare for a very few ignorant racists. A proud day not only for Blacks, but for other minorities from coast to coast and proof that everything is possible in America. A bittersweet day for people like myself who disagree entirely with the man’s (Obama) politics, but is so proud of my country that we have again knocked down another hurdle on the path to a color blind society.
Is this what Dr. King spoke of when he talked about equality and justice? I wasn’t there, but judging by his words when he said we should “judge a man, not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character”, I would think not.
The men in these videos refused to show up for their day in court making the case even easier for the Department of Justice to prosecute early on, but as explained in this video…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDeUTIGFypQ
…the process got very messy as it moved towards sentencing when “upper level” individuals in the Department of Justice issued the mandate that not only would this case be dropped, but no other voter intimidation cases would be tried where there was a “white victim”.
I really don’t care if you are of the political persuasion where you want to spend every dime this country produces one hundred times over and print that much more paper money on top of it. If we can’t agree on issues such as these – if we can’t unite where justice is this clearly not being served, then all the Gold and Platinum in the world will mean nothing.
What policy could possibly mean more than stopping a corrupt justice system? If the courts and our system of justice has been infected by politics and the desire to have one man, or one race, or one party sit in the Presidency, then we are all in for a horrible fate and we will have no one to blame but ourselves for our apathy.
Take responsibility. We’ve all had a hand in allowing this type of corruption to take place and now it has reached our Federal Justice system once again. We came along way from defeating racist white judges and politicians in the past, and now we’re just going to sit on our hands because the tides have turned? Let’s be proud that our country elected a Black man as President, but be fair and consistent when judging the content of his character and the character of those involved at the highest levels of our Federal Justice system.
Shawn Dietz
North Iowa
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Help me out here…why would you have a problem with a couple of Black guys standing around — one holding a night stick? I’ve been to TEA Party events and guys are walking around in camo with guns on their hips.
Seems like Black Panthers should have the same rights as Tea Partiers…or is it because they are Black? How many Blacks are in the Northern Iowa TEA Party?
sunny badger, as the author of this post, please allow me to speak for myself here. For me, the Black Panther/voter intimidation case has absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE. It is however, 100% about voter rights and the rule of law. I’m not sure where you’re from, but the Tea Party events I’ve been to around here have not featured any guns present, however there is a strong 2nd Amendment support system within the TPM and I have seen videos where guns have been present. The difference, for me is that the rule of law requires that no person be intimidated while they try to head to the polls to vote, which is exactly what these two men were doing on November 4, 2008. Show me video where there are white men doing the same thing and I will be equally against that as well. To further the problem we currently have a D.O.J. that refuses to prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law – FACT. The D.O.J. is also reported to have a policy that refuses to enforce any voter intimidation laws where the victim is white – in order to find out if that is a fact there need to be hearings, witnesses, subpoenas, etc. We have to maintain the right to open polls and open voting in this country free of intimidation from any group. If you are able to find any recent evidence of white voter intimidation on black people, let me know and I will be more than happy to write an equally scalding commentary. Also, what further enflames this particular story is the clear hatred that the man has for white people – to be voluntarily captured on camera talking about killing “crackers” and “cracker” babies. Is that not disgusting? Racism has no room in America, now or in the future, and it occupies far too much of our past for us to allow it to go any farther.
The Tea Party is about smaller government, lower taxes, and constitutional behavior – period. As far as I know, the Tea Party couldn’t care less what color you are.
Although I have seen Democrat Union thugs beat up black conservatives. Sounds like black conservatives could use a little Black Panther help to me.
Admin, has there EVER been a point in the history of our nation when a certain segment of the population thought everything was just right and all was in Constitutional equalibrium? It seems to meet, from the get-go, Constitutional interpretations have been part of the governing bargain that is the US of A.
Slavery seems to have a contridiction. Women without voting rights. Non-property holders without voting rights. The list goes on and on and on…and that would be why we have a court system.
The Bible and the Constitution seems to have their followers who think the can devine the meaning in the simple black and white words of the text as written.
In Western Wisconsin, side arms are a common site at TEA Party rallies. However, those rallies seemed to have dried up in 2010. Attendees have probably realized their unemployment checks, Badger Care, etc. come from the government.
The guys that I know who also attend TEA Party rallies in my area — I attend them all — like to use the words “Obama,” “fucking” and “nigger” in the same sentence when having a post party chat over a couple of beers at the local roadhouse.
You did mention how many Blacks are active in your organization. Are there any? Do any attend your rallies?
How many of those “independent Iowa farmers” getting government subsidies are in your organization? The TEA Party seems to be quite overall about the farmer welfare programs. I guess it’s easier to pick Mexicans and Negroes out of the focus-the-blame-for-our-problems-on crowd.
A few whacko’s don’t represent the entire Tea Party movement. I still haven’t met a single racist in our group, even though the lefty mainstream media LOVE to fall back on “race” and “hate” to try to slough off the real message: Small, Constitutional government and low taxes and how Republicans and Democrats have been screwing that up for, oh, about 7 decades now.
Hey, how many African-Americans are in your group, by the way?
If they’re in business for themselves, I’ll bet they’ll agree with small Constitutional government and lower taxes, too.
Admin, so how many Blacks do you have in you group? Seems to be a fairly simple question. How many attend you rallies?
I don’t have a “group.” I attend TEA Party rallies as a concerned, interested citizen. Just like a attend Republican, Democrat, etc. rallies. Of course, TEA Party rallies are basically Republican rallies where the refuse to use the word “Bush” and constantly repeat the word “Reagan.”
Where does the Constitution mention anything about “small government?” I could pay less taxes if we eliminated the welfare handouts to Wisconsin and Iowa farmers. You got any farmers in you TEA Party? Obviously, they ain’t for small government. No doubt they are for less taxes… for themselves.
Where does the constitution mention Medicare, Social Security, public education or any of the other things lefty’s love so much?
Checkout the Constitution Study Group sessions here:
http://commonsensepoliticsblog.us/u-s-constitution/constitution-sessio n-iii/
and here:
http://commonsensepoliticsblog.us/u-s-constitution/constitution-sessio n-iv/
You might learn something.
From those who I’ve seen at my local TEA Party rallies, I don’t think they have a problem with Medicare or Social Security. In fact, if it wasn’t for those government programs, they probably wouldn’t be able to afford going to TP rallies. They’d have to be out working for a living.
Public schools…are you suggesting that we should only have private schools? We would really have an ignorant electorate with that scenario. Keep them ignorant and clueless and let the big money people do the thinking.
Virtually all the people I know, regardless of the political ideology they currently embrace, are products of the public school system and would drop their jaws in confused amazement at those that would suggest we do away with public schools.
Are you calling me a “lefty?”
I would have to say public schools dominated by leftist educators ARE keeping our kids ignorant and at a competitive disadvantage with kids from other countries.
Half the public school teachers I know consider themselves conservative and vote Republican. Is the problem “public education” or the “public educators” or the fact that they are in unions?
Are kids more ignorant today than 40 years ago? We’ve had so-called “conservatives” running the White House the majority of the time. Conservative were also running the House and Senate in the 90s to 2002. Did the public schools get better or worse during the conservative ear?
Why are you afraid to answer the question about welfare, i.e., subsidies to farmers? That seems to be one of the “black holes” in the TEA Party group think.
Sorry it’s taken me a while to get back to you, Sunny. Some of us have real jobs …
1 – This came out today and pretty accurately answers your question if you think about it:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the /print
2 – There is no more “group think” in the Tea Party movement than you’ve exhibited in your posts.
See you in November.
It’s interesting to note how you seem to be afraid to engage in a discussion using your own thoughts and words. I’m not interested in what the Spectator thinks. I’m interested in what you think.
Obviously, you rely on others to do your thinking for you…that’s even worse than group think. I haven’t added an links to make you think.
I really am interested in know where the North Iowa TEA Party stands on farm subsidies. Why are you afraid to answer a simple question? Are you a farmer getting subsidies?
It’s interesting to note you’ve answered none of my questions either. Judging from your posts, you’re not thinking for yourself, just accusing me of doing what you and others on your side of the debate are doing. This is known in shrink circles as “transference” – something the left has used for decades to cover their own hypocrisy.
AGAIN — the Tea Party stands for fiscal responsibility, Constitutionally limited government, and free markets. Period. Why don’t you read the Spectator, check out the constitution Study Group sessions and educate yourself rather than pester others with endless questions?
Are you a farmer? Are you “stuck on stupid” – irrationally obsessed – with this question because of your own fear?
Lastly – AGAIN – the Tea Party is not a political party. So there is no way to answer your question within the context in which you’ve framed it. The Tea Party MOVEMENT stands for fiscal responsibility, Constitutionally limited government, and free markets – period.
It’s sad to see that you can’t hold an intelligent conversation. Evidently, since I don’t see everything your way, I am “stuck of stupid.” I’m not sure what stupid about trying to find out what you perspective is on a key source of funding that goes to farmers in Iowa and Wsiconsin. Obviously, in the Crayon box that colors your worldview, there are two colors — black and white. It’s interesting to note that the brain is sometimes refered to as “the gray matter.”
More snotty psuedo-intellectual lib comments? Tut, tut. Really …
I get it…”free markets!” Subsidies are not part of the free market. Therefore a TEA Party devotee would be fundamentally against paying tax payer dollars to farmers. There is nothing in the Constitution that says you can take my hard earned money and give it to farmers. Paying subsidies to farmers is therefore unconstitutional.
I wonder how that fundamentally goes over in Iowa?
Now yer gettin’ the idear! ;o)
If the TEA Party is not a political party, what kind of party is it? Why would Michelle Bachmann be making a cacus out of it in Congress? Why do the TEA Party have conventions and rallies where they invite a bunch of politicians to speak. If it’s not a political party why is it involved in politics?
If you knew your history, you’d know the movement is named for a reference Rick Santelli made on CNBC.
Caucuses do not represent the Tea Party movement.
Really…my history book tells me about the Boston Tea Party. You know, they guys who dressed up as Indians, boarded a ship in Boston and dumped tea into the harbor to protest taxes.
My history also tells me Dick Amery and company fired up Newt Gingrich’s Contract on Americans. He fired up the same batch of fact-ignoring, Reagan worshipers in 1992. The difference is in 2010, we got the Internet and everybody is an “expert.”
Caucuses are Michelle Bachman’s idea. You know Michelle and Sarah will be running on the TEA Party ticket in 2012.
Ha — who’s ignoring “facts” sunny? You can’t run on something that doesn’t exist.
Technically, you are correct. However, since the TEA Party represents the strong back and weak mind section of the GOP, they will being totting the water water of the big money boys in 2012. Then, like the Christian Right and the Loony Left, you will all be disappointed that the game is play between the 40 yard lines and not in the endzone of the fruitcake fringe groups.
I’m sure, in your worldview, anyone who doesn’t agree with your vision is on the loony left.
Technically, I believe Florida has a party called the TEA Party.
Wrong again, sunny. The Tea Party represents common sense Constitutionalists that think for themselves and can read. Something anybody that voted for “Hope and Change” didn’t do in ’08 or they wouldn’t have elected the damn fool anyway. He told us he was a Socialist right there on his website.
Tea Party movement people don’t give a rats ass what commies, leftists, socialists, or any other breed of dummycrap thinks they ought to do, think, say, or pay for. In fact, that’s why we’re making Republicans squirm — they’ve been kissin’ lefty ass while claiming to be conservative Constitutionalists just to fit in with the lefty ruling class and we’re not letting them get away with it anymore.
Time will tell, my friend. Thanks for helping my little hobby blog in the search rankings.
Actually, I think the “kissin’ lefty ass” is what you call the political process. In case you hadn’t noticed, the political process is all about compromise. Calling people Commies or Nazis isn’t about politics of solving issues. It’s about the intimidation of brute force and ignorance. Whatever…
Hey, how come you guys took down the billboard? It that’s what you believe, why did you cave? I might not agree with the point being made by the billboard, but I support your right to make your statement. Just like a support the right of the KKK to hold rallies and TEA Partiers to wear guns to their rallies.
You can’t compromise with people that refuse to get their facts straight. What you call the “political process” has been “my way or the highway” by ignorant libs for the last 80 years. We’re sick of Republicans caving to stupid leftists just to get along in Washington.
What’s wrong with wearing guns anywhere? Read the Second Amendment.
Name ONE single Tea Party or Tea Party member that’s EVER allowed Klan people or Nazi’s into their meetings. My own group kicked out one of those guys last April (I think he was a lib plant). That lib fool in Washington that said he was called “the N-word” can’t name a single person that did it and the cameras were rolling the entire time. Someone offered $100,000 to anybody that could provide video proof of racism at a Tea Party rally. Nobody’s claimed it yet. They do have video of Tea People kicking racists OUT of their rally’s. Too bad your incompetent liars in the main stream media won’t report the truth. Guess that’s why they’re losing money.
Billboard had to come down because the lefty onslaught made the man responsible’s wife sick – physically ill. Most Tea People aren’t pro politicians so when the Nazi jack-booted lib thugs (egged on by the Chicago mob running Washington) started calling her home, threatening people she did business with, and making her life a living hell, the man took it down. Too bad your guy’s don’t practice what they preach. But, then, when have they ever?
I don’t have a problem with wearing guns. Pointing out the fact that it’s going on doesn’t mean I have a problem with it.
When the Republicans get a “true conservative” on the ballot, I will vote for him. Name me a few true conservatives that have been on the ballot? I voted for Ron Paul in 1988. The was also the same year I had my picture in Time magazine shaking Jessie Jackson’s hand.
I never said there was a connection between the TEA Party and the KKK. I just said I believe in freedom of speech and think we shouldn’t silence opinions that we don’t agree with. The world is full of racists. They don’t bother me and I don’t want people trying to silence them.
I figured the billboard came down because somebody’s wife intervened and pointed out the they have to live in the community. sounds like “compromise” to me. Wasn’t the “lefty onslaught” just Americans exercising their constitutional right to free speech.
Sounds like the TEA Party is more for waitresses and waiters who can dish it out and less for customers who can take it.
Who are my guys? What is it that they are preaching that needs to be practiced?
Did you get any flooding down your way. My thoughts and prayers good out for those in Iowa and Illinois getting flooded.
Actually, the lady became physically ill over this and Bob did what he had to do to protect her from the “tolerant” “diverse” ” lefty nut-jobs. They received death threats as did the employees working at the meeting place and a 24/7 onslaught of emails and phone calls.
I won’t judge the man harshly for protecting his family.
The Tea Party movement is here to stay and is made up of average Americans who are pissed off at what’s happening in America.
Ron Paul’s a great guy and a good Libertarian but 3rd party candidates can’t win elections. If the Libertarians would get their shit together on National Security they might manage to get nominated as Republicans and Tea People would be happy about that.
Wow, are you off your taxpayer funded meds again?
I’d say anybody that doesn’t support a return to common sense Constitutional Government is a spineless nut job that misses his mommy and daddy so much he’s willing to soak his fellow citizens for every stupid-assed entitlement dished out by ruling class Republicans and Democrats he can vote for.
As to crickets, I don’t always get back to this blog promptly … I have a real job that limits my time.
BTW — polls are showing an OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of Tea People ARE average Americans that let a bunch of morons like you hijack our country.
As your discourse has become deranged, unhinged, and filled with inaccurate, historical revisionist bullshit, I’m not going to post this one.
Any comments on the Andrew (not so)Britbart slander video of the Ag lady? It will be an interesting defimation cause in the court. Hopefully his sugar daddies remember him when the bill comes through.
Sort of looks like he was trying to drive that racist wedge into the stump and ended up hitting himself in the nuts. Of course, Obama and his merry band of knee-jerks once again fell for the bait. Just like the ACORN deal. Sometimes you should just ignore the idiots…don’t you agree?
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