{"id":1880,"date":"2010-05-15T16:34:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T16:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2010-05-15T16:34:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T16:34:29","slug":"amazing_statements_at_the_depa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Statements At The Department Of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyone has seen the video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU&amp;feature=pyv&amp;ad=3265020430&amp;kw=black%20panther%20voter%20intimidation\">You Tube<\/a>&nbsp;of a member of the Black Panther Party holding a nightstick at a Philadelphia voting place in 2008.&nbsp; Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/may\/14\/justice-official-black-panther-polling-case-lacks-\/\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;posted an article explaining that a justice official has stated that there was &#8220;insufficient evidence&#8221; to bring a civil case against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting election in Philadelphia.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\" lang=\"EN\"><em><font color=\"#000000\">&#8220;Mr. (Thomas E.) Perez, the only Justice Department official to testify publicly before the commission about the case, said that without sufficient proof that party members or the organization&#8217;s leader, Malik Zulu Shabazz, directed or controlled unlawful activities at the poll or made speeches to incite or produce lawless action, the complaint &#8220;would have likely failed&#8221; in court.&#8221;<\/font><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I understand that pictures can be doctored and thus cannot be relied upon as evidence, but this video seems rather clear.<\/p>\n<p>A written statement by the Black Panther Party stated that Mr. Shabazz should not have brought a nightstick to the polling place, but stated that it was an &#8216;honest error.&#8217;&nbsp; If a tea party member showed up with a nightstick, would that be an &#8216;honest error&#8217;?&nbsp; I am truly sorry that our Justice Department does not see fit to protect voters from intimidation at the voting booth.&nbsp; There are laws setting limits on how close political activity can be to polling places, don&#8217;t we have laws to prevent voter intimidation?&nbsp; Is anyone in the current administration interested in upholding them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost everyone has seen the video at You Tube&nbsp;of a member of the Black Panther Party holding a nightstick at a Philadelphia voting place in 2008.&nbsp; Yesterday the Washington Times&nbsp;posted an article explaining that a justice official has stated that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1880\">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-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","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=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}