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Justice, Denied
Lawlessness and corruption in the Obama-Holder Justice Department. From our new November issue.
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Eric Eversole, director of the Military Voter Protection Project and a former DOJ Voting Section attorney, warned of the problem in September, telling me: “Some of the attorneys in the section are openly hostile to the military and, at the very least, are unsympathetic to the sacrifices of our service members.”
So angry about all this is Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the military voting law’s co-author, that he called for congressional hearings on the matter, placed a lasting “hold” on the nomination of close Holder friend James Cole to be deputy attorney general, and wrote Holder a scathing September 16 letter that accused Holder and company of “a shameful failure to honor the heroic service of those who defend America.”
Indeed, the department failed for more than a year to update its website to reflect the new law protecting military voters — but it spent what must have been an immense amount of taxpayer-supported staff time building a 2,314-word web page telling felons how to recover their voting privileges. Yet the department enjoys no statutory authority to deal with felon voting at all. Who needs the law when you can bolster the numbers of a key Democratic constituency?
Undermining National Security
OF COURSE, this Justice Department has shown its disdain for military and security considerations in numerous other ways as well. The first came on the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell (DADT) rule on homosexuals in the military. Whatever one’s views of the wisdom of the policy, it remains the law of the land and DOJ is obliged to defend it. But Edward Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center has written at great length explaining how the Holderites were derelict on this. “It [DOJ] failed to seek Supreme Court review of a rogue Ninth Circuit ruling that subjected DADT to heightened scrutiny,” he told me. “And when trial on DADT took place, DOJ called no witnesses and failed to offer any serious defense of DADT. The district judge’s ruling against DADT relied heavily on DOJ’s failings.”
Those failings perhaps pale in comparison to the outright defiance of security concerns with regard to the trials of terrorist detainees. Holder’s decidedly premature announcement that the 9/11 conspirators detained in Guantanamo Bay, including the mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, would be tried in New York City has actually slowed the course of justice.
Former terrorist prosecutor Andrew McCarthy quite arguably has been the most eloquent expositor of this thesis. “From a legal standpoint, it makes no sense to try the al Qaeda quintet in civilian court,” he wrote in the November 22, 2009, New York Daily News. “Eleven months ago, these men were prepared to plead guilty in their military commission and proceed to execution. Yet the Obama administration pulled the plug on that commission. This was a transparent sop to the left, which wants to judicialize war-fighting and is repulsed by the intelligence-centric, prevention-first counterterrorism strategy that has protected us for eight years from a reprise of the 9/11 atrocities. Now, our enemies will be given a full-blown civilian trial with all the rights of the American citizens they are sworn to kill. They will get a year or more to sift through our national defense secrets.”
All of this was made more problematic when the Justice Department was forced, after much stonewalling, to acknowledge just how many of the new Holder team had done legal work for the detainees. At least nine had done so, and at least another five worked for firms that did significant detainee defense work. They include Jennifer Daskal, who was known as a particularly fervid defender of those detainees. They include Eric Columbus, who worked for the detainee in the landmark case of Boumediene v. Bush and who now is senior counsel for the deputy attorney general. This gives him at least some supervisory authority over both the Criminal and National Security divisions at DOJ-the very divisions involved with deciding how to handle the convincingly accused terrorists.
Moreover, as first reported by the Washington Times on November 22, 2009, “Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, No. 3 official in the Justice Department, had to recuse himself on at least 13 active detainee cases and at least 26 cases listed as either closed or mooted,” presumably because of his former law firm’s efforts on their behalf. To further quote the Washington Times:
The extent of the recusals raises questions about whether the attorney general has enough unbiased advisers around him to have made good judgments about how to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other detainees. He certainly did seem terribly ill-informed when asked basic questions at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday about how Miranda rights for detainees would be treated in civil courts and if any enemy combatant from a foreign battlefield had ever been tried in American civil courts. Columnist Charles Krauthammer justly called Mr. Holder’s responses “utterly incoherent.” If the incoherence stems from an inherent bias among President Obama’s appointees at the Justice Department, senators and the American public have the right to know it.
Illegal Alien Nation
MANY PEOPLE SEE illegal immigration as a national security issue, too. As with DADT and with an even worse sabotage of the Defense of Marriage Act by declaring that the act is not “rationally related to any legitimate government interests in procreation and child-rearing,” the Obama administration on immigration has gone far beyond its obvious right to pursue its favored policy objectives through the legislative process; instead, it has used the power of the Justice Department to make a mockery of legitimate legislative enactments.
“It is one thing, and totally appropriate, to pick policy priorities that are in line with the administration you serve,” said Robert Driscoll, another former DOJ attorney, who has represented famed Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio against Obama administration harassment. “Are particular investigations or prosecutions being undertaken or avoided to advance the president’s political allies? Unfortunately, there are too many examples even beyond Black Panthers that raise questions.… All of these cases raise concern that the ‘political’ influence at DOJ, which has always been reflected in the priorities and policy choices of any attorney general, has begun to influence the front-line decision-making regarding individual cases and investigations.”
So it was that the Holder DOJ has taken the position that (to quote a Washington Times editorial) “Sheriff Arpaio should not set up a phone tip line to search for immigration violators, and he is not allowed to tell the public about federal immigration enforcement policies even if he is merely disputing demonstrable falsehoods told about him; yet the Justice Department can set up an anonymous tip line to gather evidence against the sheriff.” Even though a 2008 investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency found that the sheriff and ICE officials had an “excellent” working relationship, DOJ is now suing Arpaio for supposedly discriminating against Hispanic inmates. The DOJ lawsuit looked even more absurd when, in late September, an audit from the U.S. Marshals Service gave Arpaio’s treatment of inmates the highest grades possible in every single category-including for prevention of, yes, discrimination against detainees.
So it was that DOJ also has sued Maricopa County Community Colleges for requiring that non-citizens produce “green cards” to prove they are here legally. Since such visiting workers are by law supposed to carry the cards with them at all times anyway, it defies belief to think it’s illegal for an employer to ask to see it.
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Ted Z.| 11.2.10 @ 9:38AM
Go, Giants, go!
San Francisco's golden sun still shines for you!
Alan Brooks| 11.2.10 @ 3:18PM
Perhaps Hillyer's piece is correct on all counts, however justice in America has been a revolving-door system for many decades-- for the benefit of those in law enforcement as well as the bad guys. Cops and courts (no need to mention attorneys) get their cut.
You can't blame it all on liberalism or creepintg socialism. A large nation such as America will always be predatory in every way.
All I care about is preventing another Rove-managed political abortion; we thoroughly wasted eight years with the last Bush, do you want to waste more years, more decades? Just as Clinton was the best thing that happened to the GOP in the '90s, Obama has been a Godsend for you, allowing you to sweep into another bout of moving & shaking. Not conservative, but certainly Rightwing.
Do what you have to do (perhaps you think God is calling you, who knows) but we your opposition will do the same.
The bell will toll for not merely others, but also many of you. Guaranteed.
It such a relief the Memoir-Writer 43 left office 1/'09: I write that because his whitewashing book is being released very soon-- just in time for your takeover.
scythe| 11.2.10 @ 7:59PM
Your condescension is magnificent! Worked on it all your life, have you? What does it feel like to be so special and so much smarter than everyone else? Do tell.
Alan Brooks| 11.2.10 @ 9:20PM
Why don't you tell me about your outsized rightwing ego? (BTW, Ben Stein thinks far too much of himself, considering).
And what are you worried about? even at this early hour it's plain the GOP has enough votes to steercottle Obama's agenda.
You win-- that's what counts, Scythe.
"Scythe"? what do you think YOU are, a soldier?
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Scythe! that's a quaint handle. You can me Blade; that's a masculine moniker-- Blade.
Scythe and Blade. We're a team.
ironhorzmn| 11.5.10 @ 12:35AM
Excellent attempt at distraction. But unsuccessful.
Holder is thoroughly exposed as a dishonest, racist, blatant political hack.
AD| 11.11.10 @ 6:13PM
You forgot his likely criminal participation in the Marc Rich pardon.
Barbara| 11.6.10 @ 12:11AM
News flash: everyone doesn't do it and two wrongs don't make a right.
You're a crabby lib and a sore loser , we get it. Stop annoying, and BORING, otherwise civilized, interesting commentators withe clichéd drivel.
Olby's got some free time. Bet he's looking for a soul mate.
DaveP.| 11.11.10 @ 7:45AM
Shorter Alan Brooks:
Injustice isn't injustice when the Left does it!
Keep it up, Alan.
Alan Brooks| 11.29.10 @ 6:55PM
Bottom line:
You lost our respect after Reagan left office.
Alan Brooks| 11.29.10 @ 6:58PM
...AGAIN: you no longer possess the GOP unity of the '80s;
so tell what you have to say to Buchananites, not the left--
get your own rightwing house in order.
Intelligent Design| 11.2.10 @ 7:12AM
Obama and Holder are waging war against the Constitution, and against all American citizens. Obama lied when he took the oath of office, and it's been all downhill from there. Impeach.
skip| 11.2.10 @ 11:37AM
Convict for treason.
MacDaddy| 11.2.10 @ 12:17PM
Sentence to the maximum punishment allowed under law.
Intelligent Design| 11.2.10 @ 2:23PM
Article III, section 3 of the Constitution: "The Congress shall have the power to declare the punishment for treason ..."
Alan Brooks| 11.2.10 @ 3:24PM
"it indicates that it's OK for blacks to talk softly but carry a big stick."
You have everything- save for a sense of justice.
After the way blacks have been treated, you are fortunate you are merely being paid back in your own coin and not worse. Blacks are being proved right after all, you think this is your world. And it is; but not for long: even Scandinavia is going bad.
Though the mills grind slowly, they grind-- and soon the bell tolls for you. You can't see justice!
Charlene| 11.2.10 @ 4:38PM
you are fortunate you are merely being paid back in your own coin and not worse
How dare you, you steaming pile of crap. I don't presume to speak for anyone else but myself. When did slavery end? What year is it now? Move on idiot. Any original slaves still living that deserve restitution of some sort? Both sets of my grandparents literally came to America on "the boat". Poor German and even poorer Italian immigrants. Neither having ever owned slaves because they were dirt poor. My ancestors, nor me, had any part in slavery. I don't owe ANY PERSON ANYTHING. If I thought I owed anyone restitution of some type, I'd be more concerned about the Jews that may have been murdered by one of my ancestors, or the possibility that one of my ancestors took part in the hanging of Christ on a cross. Slavery? Paid back in my own coin? I'll repeat myself. You are a steaming pile of crap. Since when is it justice , "the bell tolls", to punish someone for a crime they haven't committed? You make me sick.
YeloStalyn| 11.2.10 @ 4:59PM
This talk of a "new slavery" reminds me of what should be (and is among certain circles) a very famous quote:
"Man is born free, and everywere in chains"
-J.J.Rousseau
The only One with the authority to pin the sins of the father on the son is God Almighty. Man, however, can only treat each other as an individual, repsonsible only for those actions he himself makes. To do otherwise would require that Africans, the genesis of the slave trade, pay retirbuition to their racial bretheren. It was rival tribes that would go out and capture people and sell them to the Dutch and other European traders to bring to the New World. Speaking of African slave traders... when did you pay the Jews back for that business in Egypt back in the day? Maybe pro-reperation blacks need to take a long look in the mirror first. AND... let it also be known that it is documented that some of the first legal cases involving the rights of slave owners in America were settled in favor of BLACK slave owners. Nor should we forget that the indentured servant... the first step the New World took towards wide spread slavery... included white servants. It was not until after the practice of slavery had been that it began to break along solely racial lines. Thankfully the argument can be said that while whites may have enslaved the black population of the colonies... they paid the reperations back in blood via the Civil War. If you want more than that, then you are exposing the truth that you, in fact, are simply a lazy, selfish, theiving, racist.
Alan Brooks| 11.2.10 @ 9:36PM
Case in point:
"Fedup Honkey| 11.2.10 @ 3:49PM
ONE WORD WILL EXPLAIN IT ALL
NIGERO !!!!!!"
Might be this kind of thing isn't said that often in the area, say, where AS is headquartered; yet where I live, it is said- and that's out West, not down South. Having written the above, anyone can say what they want: however it means blacks can do the same.
You can't seem to fully absorb that. Blacks are going to move up the food chain as Italians did-- by hook or by crook-- several generations ago.
Blacks aren't weak and you can't keep them below you on the food chain anymore.
ironhorzmn| 11.5.10 @ 12:45AM
Who says I want to keep them 'below me'?
Who appointed you the spokesman for 'blacks'? Do they ALL think the way you say they do?
And why am I going to be 'paid back in my own coin' when I was born and raised in Massachusetts?
And why are YOU exempt from this retroactive retribution? Is it because you are speaking out for 'blacks'? What makes you better than or different from the rest of us?
It was Democrats who defended slavery. It was Democrats who instituted Jim Crow. It was Democrats who fought civil rights legislation and desegregation. It was Democrats who gave birth to the Klan. It was Democrats who disarmed blacks in the daytime using badges in order to allow them to murder them at night.
You'd be better served writing your screeds as you look in the mirror.
Drik| 12.21.10 @ 12:25PM
Blacks were moving up the food chain, gaining power, money, jobs, justice, and were actually doing better as a group than poor whites, until the institution of the left wing civil rights policies of the 60s. Since then it's been a steady slide downward.
TLR| 12.21.10 @ 7:54PM
Allan, for a truthful look at history I suggest you read Thomas Sowell's "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" I am doing so right now, it is very illuminating.
NavyBrat | 11.2.10 @ 4:51PM
Spare us the diatribe about how black people are getting us back. You'd do well to learn a little history & philosophy.
"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment."...Cicero
Curtis Rasmussen| 11.2.10 @ 7:24PM
On issues of race Alan Brooks is a know nothing. Ignore him.
ironhorzmn| 11.5.10 @ 12:46AM
On issues of REALITY he's a know nothing.
Anthony| 11.2.10 @ 9:29PM
Enough, enough with the way blacks have been treated. Okay, maybe before I was born some blacks were treated bad, it's my understanding that the Irish, the Jews, the Scots, the Italians, the Welsh, the Germans, the Dutch, the Chinese, okay everybody, even some of the English, were treated badly. Blacks had it worse? Okay, but in my lifetime they've had welfare, affirmative action and they've even got a president, before the Jews, the Polish, the Italians, the Chinese, etc. Enough is enough.
MCFergy | 12.23.10 @ 1:17AM
Just curious Mr. Brooks; have you ever listened too or read the writings of Herman Cain or Thomas Sowell or do you even consider them as black Americans?
RCV| 11.2.10 @ 3:47PM
Re-elect in 2012.
NavyBrat | 11.2.10 @ 4:49PM
Dream on, twidget. Prepare to reap the whirlwind, sucker!
skip| 11.2.10 @ 7:59PM
R(etched)
C(ommentator of)
V(enal vile vacuous virulent vomitus)
Alan Brooks| 11.2.10 @ 9:26PM
"RCV| 11.2.10 @ 3:47PM
Re-elect in 2012."
Finally, someone who knows we might be in for another Roveian sort-of interregnum if Obama isn't kept on.
Roving Rove, the shifty kingmaker.
Ol' Wayne| 1.2.11 @ 2:40AM
Alan! Your comments remind me of one of my professors, Charles Ulmer Farley!
Or, as we openly called him: Chuck U. Farley.
Ret. Marine| 11.2.10 @ 7:22AM
I would like to clarify just one bit of information for you, in the first of this article you referred to the black panthers as "club weilding gang members" not so, they are in fact known "members of Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam" and act as enforcers in the voter fraud division of hate those crackers, who prefer to kill those cracker's babies" gang members, hardly. These are criminals of the subversive, sedition and terrorist activities types spewing out terrorists threats with the satisfaction of knowing "one of their kind " eric "the red" holder and crew will never get around to prosecuting, via, orders from the black house. And they call me, a white male Christian man, racist. What do you suppose the kind of trouble I would be in if I were to stand in front of a polling place with a m-16 in my hands, a white sheet with a red cross in the middle of a blue square on the top left hand corners of it spewling hateful remarks ( such as get ready for the ummah to rule over you) towards the religion of peices. Would I be called, 1. an infidel, 2. a crusader, or 3. maybe a patriot, not on your life, you would be calling me CONVICT by now under this regime calling itself an administration.
This entire administration reeks traitors stench from within.
Yosemeti Sam| 11.2.10 @ 7:30AM
And, as the chickens this day come home to roost, BHOs' assorted administration flunkies may finally perceive their futures writ large - all bound for the public HR investigative cucking stool.
For joy.
Melvin| 11.2.10 @ 8:07AM
Well, I guess it could be said, that if that miserable poor excuse of an AJ Eric Holder doesn't put those two Black Panther thugs into jail, then he himself should be frog marched into prison as a complete embarrassment to our legal system and a thoroughly corrupt lawyer who wouldn't even be fit to litigate himself out of a wet paper bag.
After this is all over and done with Holder should be investigated and brought before a House panel and explain why he didn't enforce the Constitution and the laws associated with it. If anything Holder needs to be disbarred, this is what affirmative action gets our legal system.
But Holder isn't alone in his incompetence. There are two affirmative action babies sitting on the US Supreme Court. As they themselves have so proudly stated.
hijinx60| 11.4.10 @ 11:02PM
Why hasn't Holder and his ilk been prosecuted for aiding and abetting in a felony...the illegal hampering of the voting process?? This among other various charges.
coal carrier| 11.2.10 @ 8:28AM
Mr. Obama, I thought that you said you were going to restore justice and honor to our system of government.
Joe Wilson was right, “you lie!”
Louis Jenkins| 11.2.10 @ 8:39AM
Holder is a puke. So are his henchmen. Never before have I seen a DOJ ran with complete abandoment of the legal system. Like his boss, Holder believes that if it feels good, do it! Why haven't our service men and women been given the full court press to their voting rights? Why haven't the Immigration Enforcement people been given the power of the law? Why haven't the thugs been proscuted for voter intimidation? Laziness, slackerness, and a view to "remake" the country in their own image. Justice will not be served as long as the Pretender n Chief is in the blackhouse.
Louis Jenkins| 11.2.10 @ 3:05PM
According to Drudge the black dude has returned this year to his usual hangout in Philly.
Redstateboy| 11.2.10 @ 8:47AM
The Rats and Liber-uls and their fawning syncophantic Media will Howl but I don't believe the American Public will object if a Republican held House of Representatives begins well thought out investigations of what's been going on over at Justice.
brigid| 11.2.10 @ 9:17AM
When I lived in the US as a legal immigrant I lost my green card and had it replaced. Because of all the bother and inconvenience involved in replacing it I decided to be too smart and not carry it with me. Stupid, stupid, decision. I went to the local train station to go to work and lo and behold as I was buying my ticket this gentleman stopped me as I was leaving the ticket office and asked me for ID. I admitted that I didn't have my green card and gave him my handbag with all my company id and money and told him I just wanted my house keys and would be right back. I ran to my apartment got my card and gave it to him. When I returned the gentleman smiled and said lady, when you gave me you handbag which included your wallet and your money and also you gave me your train ticket I knew you had nothing to hide, but didn't have a chance to say so as you ran to verify your story, and I knew you were coming back. Was I insulted? Absolutely no as I could have been a black widow for all he knew. If you do not know who is in your country how can you protect your country? I would not let Mr. Holder protect my cat. Wake up America if you do not have a justice system which applies equally to all citizens, but is more equal for foreigners you have a bigger problem than you realise.
Rmm| 11.2.10 @ 9:30AM
Ah race, is it not lovely. The topic that has white America backed into a corner, spooked enough to avoid the issue lest they be labeled by their black brethren as racist for even broaching the subject.
And now we are witness to the subtleties of our black president when it comes to his take on race based issues. Ya gotta love it.
michaelle| 11.2.10 @ 9:30AM
Holder has to hold on to his head because it wants to keep falling off his shoulders. It grew too big.
Fast Johnny| 11.2.10 @ 9:31AM
Is there anything that can be done to effect the removal of Holder? Can a lawsuit or impeachment process of any kind be used to clean out the DOJ? What recourse does the American public have on this issue?
hunter| 11.2.10 @ 11:09AM
What part of "THE CHICAGO WAY" does anyone not yet understand? Hello....Hello....
SenatorMark4 | 11.2.10 @ 12:43PM
November 3 is the day the Republicans can start working if the polls are close. Writing a letter to DOJ and asking them to prepare for hearings will say plenty and reward the electorate for their efforts. So VERY doubtful!
jawin| 11.2.10 @ 12:48PM
A litany of abuses for which Holder and his boss ought to be held accountable -- at the polls, in Congress, and in the Courts!
Ken (Old Texican) | 11.2.10 @ 1:07PM
I'm saving your article to read on paper in the magazine. (grin)
Conversely, I hope you will finish my E-novel on screen while you are awaiting the returns.
Are you old enough to have practiced "duck and cover" in your school rooms?
Fedup Honkey| 11.2.10 @ 3:49PM
ONE WORD WILL EXPLAIN IT ALL
NIGERO !!!!!!
Nice Try, Moby| 11.11.10 @ 9:42AM
Funny how this racist comment showed up at the same time the other lib trolls did.
Go to hell, Moby.
Oldefarte| 11.2.10 @ 3:56PM
If the American taxpayer-voter would have recognized Obama's twenty year attendance at Wright's First Trinity; Holder's legal recommendation of a pardon by Bill Clinton of Marc Rich; the documented/historical activities of Obama's mother and her father [Obama's grqandfather]; Obama's friendships/associations,etc through law school; Obama's chosen occupation upon law school graduation; Obama's written words in 'Father'; then possibly we would not all be talking about Holder and his Justice Dept. right now!!!!!
John II| 11.2.10 @ 4:28PM
Which is to say, yet again, that Professor Obama lied his way into the White House. Well, as Stanley Kurz has made abundantly clear in his new book on the Professor, that's what modern lefties do: lie and conceal and lie some more.
They are, in a word, corrupt--and the reckoning is nigh.
And now back to another viewing of "The Last Hurrah" (1958) on this Election Day, just a few days after a Halloween marathon of 1930s horror classics.
RCV| 11.2.10 @ 5:35PM
...and while you're doing so, remember that on this day in 1917, Arthur Balfour announced that His Majesty's government would view with favour the creation of a national homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.
Alan Brooks| 11.2.10 @ 9:39PM
It would be nice if blacks and Jews could work together against these Babbits.
Occam's Tool| 11.8.10 @ 5:51PM
Yes, in large part because of Chaim Weizmann's incredible services to the British Empire. They then tried to weasel out. From the Wiki:
"Weizmann lectured in chemistry at the University of Geneva between 1901 and 1903, and later taught at the University of Manchester. He became a British subject in 1910, and while a lecturer at Manchester he became famous for discovering how to use bacterial fermentation to produce large quantities of desired substances. He is considered to be the father of industrial fermentation. He used the bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum (the Weizmann organism) to produce acetone. Acetone was used in the manufacture of cordite explosive propellants critical to the Allied war effort (see Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath). Weizmann transferred the rights to the manufacture of acetone to the Commercial Solvents Corporation in exchange for royalties.[9] After the Shell Crisis of 1915 during World War I, he was director of the British Admiralty laboratories from 1916 until 1919. During World War II, he was an honorary adviser to the British Ministry of Supply and did research on synthetic rubber and high-octane gasoline. (Formerly Allied-controlled sources of rubber were largely inaccessible owing to Japanese occupation during World War II, giving rise to heightened interest in such innovations)."
In short, we didn't get a handout, we EARNED it.
Occam's Tool| 11.8.10 @ 5:53PM
Referring to the Balfour Declaration and Chaim Weizmann, above.
Oldefarte| 11.3.10 @ 11:16AM
Of course, all politicians LIE [even Republicans and especially LIBERAL DEMOCRATS] but....none so much as this disguised domestic terrorist has done [or will ever do]. Furthermore, the MSM completely covered up who/what he is/was and forever will be, so that the American people were completely brainwashed into believing that this was a semi-normal [and intelligent] minority that was deserving of a chance to be president. When our national security could be/is at stake, the MSM disguised his personae/brackground and allowed/facilitated his assuming the presidency. That is a big difference in THAT versus TYPICAL LYING OF POLITICIANS!!!!!!!
Salena | 11.2.10 @ 4:55PM
All voters, no matter what cultural background they are from, need to know more about the candidates they vote for. We know many of these candidates use the Hispanic and Black voters to get elected. Why don't they understand that what we want is what is best for the entire country, not just certain groups. Everyone's views should be suspected, but the final decisions have to be made and they have to reflect "only what is good for the entire country." The actions of people like Holder, are easily explainable. They simply appear to be traitors. What is frightening to me is that they do not seem to care that the people know it. Why?
Salena | 11.2.10 @ 4:55PM
All voters, no matter what cultural background they are from, need to know more about the candidates they vote for. We know many of these candidates use the Hispanic and Black voters to get elected. Why don't they understand that what we want is what is best for the entire country, not just certain groups. Everyone's views should be suspected, but the final decisions have to be made and they have to reflect "only what is good for the entire country." The actions of people like Holder, are easily explainable. They simply appear to be traitors. What is frightening to me is that they do not seem to care that the people know it. Why?
jstwndring| 11.2.10 @ 6:08PM
Again, all this says to me is that it's time that Republicans get to be as aggressive with the agenda of limited government, as the Democrats have been with their agenda of expansionist/limitless government. Start (with Obamacare) stripping out every piece of Constitution-violating legislation they have passed from this administration on back as far as they can go (1913-Fed Res.). Start eliminating agencies like the EPA, which is just another tool of the greenie left to get around Congress. Gut the DOJ and the State Department and replace all the personell with rabid, foaming at the mouth right wing loonies--like us. :) The left populate these agencies with their radical leftists, so, it's time we replaced them. Do it unashamedly. Do it proudly. Don't hide your intentions like the Dims do. It's time for right wing activism at every level. Get rid of the U.N.. That's some valuable real estate in Manhattan. Kick the freeloaders off of our soil. Tell the U.N. to go F-themselves. We don't need 'em. Take the country back by force from the traitors to the Constitution that populate the DemocRat party.
jstwndring| 11.2.10 @ 6:11PM
Forgot to say: Joe (Bite-Me!) Biden for President 2011!
stmichrick| 11.2.10 @ 6:10PM
The challenge we face is to have these stories covered by someone other than Fox News and talk radio.
Tim*| 11.2.10 @ 9:00PM
We are listening to a radio report on Philadelphia's 1210 AM WPHT's Dom Giordano's Show that a Uniformed Black Panther was at The Same Polling Site at 12th & Fairmount again after The Court ruled that they are not supposed to be there.
Alan Brooks| 11.2.10 @ 9:41PM
Oh, mommy! we'd better send out the Safety Patrol, armed with zip guns!
RCV| 11.2.10 @ 10:10PM
Help, help, a black person standing at a polling place!
stonefellow| 11.4.10 @ 3:13PM
To RBC idiot. They problem with a uniformed Black Panther at the poling place is that he was uniformed. His cause and intimidation was announced. I would not like a uniformed communist or purple shirted Service Union employee or Nazi Brown shirt in the poling place either. Voters need to be free from intimidation.
stonefellow| 11.4.10 @ 3:25PM
The Constitution set up the House of Representatives to control the purse. The newly elected anti-Democrat Socialists need to do that. They need to strongly represent their constituents, hit the ground running, fight the enemy, investigate, and do it right. It is not Congress Business as usual. They need to restrict the budget of the Dept. of Injustice, and for federal judges who make up laws because of their liberal, not Constitutional, beliefs. They need to support border security and troops on our borders, not signs warning Americans. They need to investigate abuse of the Constitution by BHO and Holder, including his and their failure to release all the information about his citizenship and his status as a natural born citizen of the US. They need to stop the indebtaness of every taxpayer. There are far too many unanswered questions. The newly elected and the conspirators should remember that the next election is in 2 years, and we will still be angry if enough is not done to reverse the abuses of the last 2 years.
WAKE UP| 11.4.10 @ 6:54PM
memo Holder: RESIGN. NOW.
Ellen| 11.5.10 @ 10:00AM
Great idea. To associate the word "justice" with him is not only ridiculous, but is laughable.
RiverKing| 11.5.10 @ 1:21AM
Has an Attorney General ever been impeached? (Yes, Kiddies, provisions for impeachment in the U.S. Constitution apply to "all civil Officers of the United States" [Art. II, §4] )
Richard | 11.6.10 @ 2:02PM
Like some black man said after Obama's election, "ya'll being ruled by a nigga now."
I took offense to that....he left out Marxist.
Kathie| 11.10.10 @ 8:27PM
Eric Holder is just one more person we'll be rid of in the 2012 elections.
Bob| 11.11.10 @ 11:13AM
I should think by now, the Senate would be in favor of Presidential impeachment. So, what are we waiting for? Please, someone speak up quickly.
Korla Pundit | 11.11.10 @ 2:27PM
GOP Congress: Impeach these people. First order of business in 2011.
uhuh| 11.11.10 @ 9:39PM
Holder, Obama, Bauer, they will gut America.
2| 11.11.10 @ 9:52PM
Race warriors.
Bob Miller| 11.15.10 @ 2:01AM
I cringe when I see Holder holding his hand up being sworn in and an American Flag in the Background.
This act in itself is an insult to all Americans that have fought and died for this country in a time of war and an INSULT to the Constitution that he and the As- behind him are sworn to uphold.
Neither individual is man enough to have served in the military, but because BOTH ARE BLACK... they are biased and racist against anyone that is WHITE in America.
Both need to be removed from office and tried as Traitors against the Constitution AND ALL CITIZENS of the United States.
Sentence is DEATH BY HANGING.