It’s Okay to Intimidate Voters – If You’re Black

On election day, two members of the New Black Panthers were caught on camera outside a polling location in Philadelphia, Pa. Both men were dressed in military-style clothing, one wielding a nightstick.The official claims against them said they used racial slurs and insults to scare off voters. A third man was inside the voting location and had apparently somehow gotten himself approved as a poll watcher.

When confronted by a man who identified himself as a member of the media from the University of Pennsylvania who told them he was a concerned citizen worried about them intimidating voters, the man with the nightstick began slowly pacing and giving short responses to questions.

The Philadelphia Police Department was called and arrived on scene. The officers talked breifly with the two men, then the cameraman can be heard saying “He has a billyclub in his hand.” At that point the officers ask the Panthers to come with them.

On April 20, the court issued a default verdict against the men. Yesterday, a Justice Department spokesman confirmed that the case had been dropped about May 15, but they had gotten an injunction to prevent the men from intimidating voters in the future. Apparently, the appointed political officials overseeing the Justice Department told the attorneys to change course – as in ‘don’t go after these guys.’ It has not been confirmed whether or not Eric Holder had been involved in this decision.

The government had gotten a statement from Bartle Bull, a civil rights activist who was an aide to Robert Kennedy’s 1968 presidential run. Bull stated in his affidavit that he witnessed the Black Panthers intimidating voters and overheard their racial slurs. He also said the events were a “racially motivated effort to limit both poll watchers aiding voters, as well as voters with whom the men did not agree.“

The case was dismissed against two of the men, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson (Democrat poll watcher), even though none of them appeared for hearings or filed any pleadings with the court. The third man, King Sabir Shabazz, was ordered by the court to not have any weapons within 100 feet of any polling place until November 15, 2012.

Well, thanks for nothing Justice Department. This order basically gives the billyclub bully the authorization to have a weapon at a polling place after the date set. How ridiculous is that?

In an era where ‘hate crimes’ are at the forefront of a battle in this country, where Congress is attempting to shove the Pedophile Protection Act down the throats of Americans at the behest of racial ethnocentric groups, how in the world does an obvious racially-motivated hate crime of voter intimidation slip through the cracks? This goes against everything America stands for. It destroys in a few months what civil rights leaders fought so long and hard for.

Imagine the stink had a white conservative conducted himself in this manner.

New racism is just as bad as the old racism.

If you are as outraged by this as I am, then file a complaint with the DOJ.