The U.S. Department of Injustice

The U.S. Department of Injustice

By Michelle Malkin

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The U.S. Department of Justice seal
bears a Latin phrase: "Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur." The motto
refers to the attorney general, "who prosecutes on behalf of Lady
Justice." But under President Barack Obama's politically corrupt DOJ,
Lady Justice is getting the shaft.


To wit: Let's examine the uproar over Attorney General Eric Holder's
decision to protect hate-mongering thugs who harassed and bullied
precinct workers and voters on Election Day in Philadelphia.


Oh, wait. There's been no uproar. Let me tell you why.


Two weeks ago, in a highly unusual move, Holder dismissed default
judgments his department had won against two of three defendants
charged with violating the Voting Rights Act. On Nov. 4, 2008, a billy
club-wielding militant in military-style boots and beret stood outside
a Philly polling location with a similarly dressed partner. Citizen
journalists from the Pennsylvania-based blog Election Journal captured
the menacing duo on video. One of the watchdogs observed: "I think it
might be a little intimidating that you have a stick in your hand."


That was an understatement. Witness Bartle Bull, a Democratic lawyer
who organized for Bobby Kennedy and worked for the civil rights
movement in Mississippi, signed a sworn affidavit decrying the
Election Day brutishness. Serving as a poll watcher that day, he
called the behavior of Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson "the most
blatant form of voter discrimination I have encountered in my life."


One of them, Bull reported, taunted poll observers: "You are about to
be ruled by the black man, cracker."


If the pair had been dressed in white sheets, pandemonium would have
broken loose. But the ebony-clad thugs were members of the New Black
Panther Party who had been dispatched by Malcolm X wannabe Malik
Shabazz to "guard" the polls. Translation: Protect them from scrutiny.
Shield them from sunlight. Keep independent voters and observers out.


Who is Malik Shabazz? The bespectacled race hustler grabbed the
spotlight in the weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks by
defending Osama bin Laden, blaming President Bush for 9/11, bashing
Israel and blasting our Founding Fathers as "snakes." His group also
infamously rallied behind the Duke University lacrosse rape hoaxer.
And on the day before the presidential election last fall, one of
Shabazz's "field marshals," Minister Najee Muhammad, held a "black
power" rally promising to send his forces to polls across the country
"to ensure that the enemy does not sabotage the black vote."


The Bush DOJ filed suit against Malik Shabazz, Samir Shabazz and Jerry
Jackson in early January 2009. None of the defendants filed an answer
to the lawsuit, putting them all into default. Instead of taking the
default judgment that DOJ is entitled to against all of the
defendants, the Obama team fully dismissed the lawsuits against Malik
Shabazz and Jackson. Jackson, you should know, is an elected member of
the Philadelphia Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll
watcher. Witness Greg Lugones told me, "Obama campaign operatives were
on site throughout the entire episode."


Former Justice Department official and voting rights scholar Hans Van
Spakovsky added: "I have never heard of the Department dismissing a
case it has already won by default. They have � sent the message that
hurling racial epithets and slurs at voters and intimidating and
threatening voters at the polls is fine with the Holder Justice
Department — at least if you are African-American. I seriously doubt
that would have happened if the races had been reversed in this
case."


Exactly. And the harassment was aimed not just at voters, but at white
poll workers trying to ensure a fair and lawful process in a city
infamous for machine politics and street money pollution.


Who are the racial cowards, Holder?


On the heels of this voter intimidation protection plan, the Obama
Justice Department issued another decision that undermines electoral
integrity — but bolsters Democratic voter drives. The department this
week denied the state of Georgia the ability to enact strict
citizenship voter verification rules previously approved by two
federal courts. As Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel explained:
"DOJ has thrown open the door for activist organizations such as ACORN
to register non-citizens to vote in Georgia's elections, and the state
has no ability to verify an applicant's citizenship status or whether
the individual even exists."


On top of all that, Holder recently politicized the legal review
process involving the contentious issue of D.C. voting rights. After
careful study, the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an
opinion that a House bill on the matter was unconstitutional. Holder,
who supports D.C. voting rights along with Obama, overrode his staff
lawyers' ruling — and simply ordered up an alternative opinion that
fit the White House agenda.


Lady Justice is now protected by a security force armed with billy
clubs and lawyers who serve the cause of protecting the re-election of
Barack Obama over the rule of law.

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