{"id":1430,"date":"2009-12-11T06:11:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T06:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2009-12-11T06:11:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T06:11:05","slug":"eric_holder_jrs_department_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1430","title":{"rendered":"Eric Holder, Jr.&#8217;s, Department Of Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/dec\/11\/a-black-panther-sings-28726124\/?feat=home_editorials\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;posted an editorial on the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members.&nbsp; On December 4th, Malik Zulu Shabazz, the chairman of the Black Panther Party, spoke out in defense of Mr. Holder&#8217;s handling of the case.&nbsp; The Justice Department had dropped charages against Mr. Shabazz&nbsp;for his alleged voter intimidation.&nbsp; If you haven&#8217;t yet seen the video of this, you can see it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU\">YouTube<\/a>.&nbsp; I guess one of my questions about the whole incident is, &#8220;Where were the police?&#8221;&nbsp; Is Philadelphia so corrupt that the police routinely let this sort of thing happen?&nbsp; I live in a small town in Massachusetts with a small police force, but there are always two or three policemen at our polling place.<\/p>\n<p>The article points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;After the election, on Nov. 7, 2008, Mr. Shabazz spoke live on the Fox News Channel to defend his fellow party members. Claiming that they had brought a weapon to the Philadelphia polling place in response to the presence of neo-Nazis, Mr. Shabazz said, &#8220;When we found that this was an emergency response [to the supposed Nazis in the parking lot], there was an explanation&#8221; for brandishing the weapon.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">No one has shown any evidence of white supremacist activity at the voting place.&nbsp; Had the case been allowed to go to trial, we might have a clearer picture of whether or not that was the case.&nbsp; It is truly a shame that the charges against Mr. Shabazz were dropped.&nbsp; One of the founding principles of a democracy is &#8216;equal justice under the law.&#8217;&nbsp; It seems as if the people charged with upholding our laws have forgotten that principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Times&nbsp;posted an editorial on the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and three of its members.&nbsp; On December 4th, Malik Zulu Shabazz, the chairman of the Black Panther Party, spoke out in defense of Mr. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}