Why won't Attorney General Holder Investigate ACORN?

On the day of the 2008 Presidental election, the New Black Panther Party, in full combat style uniform and sunglasses, carrying weapons, intimidated voters at a Philadelphia polling station which was captured on video (above).

Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter.

Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had won a court case against the Klansmen except for the perfunctory filing of a single, simple document - but that an incoming Republican administration had moved to voluntarily dismiss the already-won case.

Surely that would have been front-page news, with a number of firings at the Justice Department.

The flip side of this scenario is occurred last July. The culprits weren't Klansmen; they belonged to the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. One of the defendants, Jerry Jackson, is an elected member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher for Barack Obama and the Democratic Party when the violations occurred. Rather conveniently,last month, the Obama administration has asked that the cases against Mr. Jackson, two other defendants and the party be dropped.

The Voting Rights Act is very clear. It prohibits any "attempt to intimidate, threaten or coerce" any voter or those aiding voters.
After the 2000 Presidental election, Democrats complained about voter intimidation in Florida by pointing to a police car that had been two miles away from a polling place. The police didn't do anything to anyone, but their presence was deemed sufficient to vaguely intimidate people en route to the polls.

In this case, the New Black Panther Party, in combat garb and armed with nightsticks, actually blocked access to a poll. If a Republican administration had done this, it would be front-page news and every civil rights group in the country would have been screaming about it. Unfortunately, the majority of the mainstream media, not unlike Chris Matthews, were too busy enjoying that warm tingly feeling that was running up their legs by the Obama candidacy.

The explanation for moving to dismiss the case is shocking. According to the Department of Justice: "These same Defendants have made no appearance and have filed no pleadings with the Court. Nor have they otherwise raised any other defenses to this action. Therefore, the United States has the right ... to dismiss voluntarily this action against the Defendants."

In other words, because the defendants haven't tried to defend themselves, the Justice Department won't punish them.  By that logic, if a murderer doesn't respond to the charges, he should be let free.

But not too worry...U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. then quietly moved to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA abuses committed during the interrogation of terrorism suspects, current and former U.S. government officials said. A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on "whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized" in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws.

Of course! Investigating the waterboarding of a radical islamic Fundamentalist, hell bent on killing Americans, trumps investigating the New Black Panther Party, which by the way, actively endorsed Barack Obama's presidency, when they physically intimidate citizen voters at a poling place with nightsticks!

And then we have Attorney General Holder's recent deision to move four terrorists from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where they have already admitted their guilt regrding the September 11, 2001 attacks on this natiuon,  to New York City where they will be afforded all due process and other legal rights during the course of a federal trial that will most assuredly take several years.  The defendants have already stated that they now intend to plead not guilty in order that they may avail themselves of the opportunity provided by President Obama and his Attorney General to spew their Islamic Fundamentalist lunancy on a world stage!

But as long as the main stream media continues to ignore or minimize the tsunami of mounting evidence indicating ACORN's widespread corruption and misuse of public funds, Attorney General Holder is quite comfortable in dismissing the issue as well, just as he did in the 2008 instance of voter intimidate by members of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia.


This is simply crazy and one more indication of just how out of control this administration has become.

Peter J. Mahon