{"id":1523,"date":"2010-01-14T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2010-01-14T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T15:41:42","slug":"the_black_panther_voter_intimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1523","title":{"rendered":"The Black Panther Voter Intimidation Case Dismissal Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/jan\/14\/house-panel-rejects-panther-resolution-15-14\/\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;reports that the House Judiciary Committee (controlled by the Democrats) voted down a resolution to require the Justice Department to tell Congress why it dismissed charages against members of the New Black Panther Party for threatening behavior at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The Washington Times reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The 15 Democrats, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, sent the resolution to the House floor with an adverse recommendation, voting it &#8220;unfavorably&#8221; out of committee. They described the Philadelphia polling disruption as an &#8220;isolated incident&#8221; that received sufficient punishment when the New Black Panther Party member who carried a nightstick was barred from carrying weapons at polling places in the future.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you follow the logic of that statement, I can rob a bank and have the charges dismissed as long as I understand that I can&#8217;t rob any more banks.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The backbone of our democracy is the free election process.&nbsp; It amazes me that anyone in Congress (even the Democrats) would be so short-sighted as to&nbsp;ignore this incident and its implications.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Just in case you haven&#8217;t seen the video, here is the link&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU&amp;feature=pyv&amp;ad=3265020430&amp;kw=black%20panther%20voter%20intimidation\">You Tube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Times&nbsp;reports that the House Judiciary Committee (controlled by the Democrats) voted down a resolution to require the Justice Department to tell Congress why it dismissed charages against members of the New Black Panther Party for threatening behavior at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1523\">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-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","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=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}