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4/6/2010 9:26:21 AM
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An article from Newsmax - Is this Justice Department capable of enforcing laws with Holder in charge? I think not!
Critics Blast Holder for Stalling Voting Rights Probe
By: David A. Patten
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has given U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder an April 12 deadline to state whether the Justice Department will stop stonewalling an investigation of alleged voter intimidation involving three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Philadelphia.
A letter from Commission chairman Gerald A. Reynolds to Holder declares that the organization's efforts to obtain information from the Justice Department are at an "impasse."
The Commission wants to know why the Department dismissed a complaint filed against several New Black Panther defendants who were videotaped confronting a cameraman and brandishing a nightstick outside a polling place.
According to the Commission, the men blocked access to the polls, harassed voters and poll workers, and hurled racial epithets. Police were called to the scene and the two men were ordered to leave.
Videos of the incident have been posted on YouTube.
Bartle Bull, an author and civil rights veteran who ran RFK's 1968 presidential campaign, was observing the Fairmont Street polling station in Philadelphia when the incident occurred. Bull filed an affidavit that stated he overheard one of the men tell a white poll observer, "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."
Bull, a former publisher of the Village Voice, was awarded the 2003 civil rights medal by the late liberal lion Sen. Ted Kennedy for his voting-rights work in Mississippi. He was monitoring polling activities on Election Day 2008 in his role as chairman of New York's Democrats for McCain organization.
In his affidavit, Bull called the incident "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I have encountered in my life in political campaigns in many states, even going back to the work I did in Mississippi in the 1960s."
Bull tells Newsmax he believes the incident was part of a larger campaign to intimidate poll watchers, who were trying to expose voters who had been fraudulently registered by the now-defunct ACORN organization.
"Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy did not die to have uniformed thugs with weapons blocking the doors to polling places," Bull tells Newsmax.
He adds that he was "appalled but not surprised" when the Holder Justice Department announced it was dropping the case. "Eric Holder's job is to defend the supporters of the administration," he says.
Reynolds' letter states that the Department "appears to have failed to prosecute this case in a robust manner," and by so doing "it appears to have provided hate groups of every ilk a precedent that will assist them in avoiding liability for voter intimidation."
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