{"id":2355,"date":"2010-10-23T22:28:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T22:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2010-10-23T22:28:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T22:28:45","slug":"the_washington_post_has_discov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2355","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post Has Discovered The New Black Panthers Election Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/10\/22\/AR2010102203982_pf.html\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;posted a detailed article showing the timeline and events surrounding the dismissal by the Justice Department of the 2008 New Black Panthers voter intimidation case.&nbsp; You can watch the video of the actual incident at <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/abreitbart\/2010\/10\/22\/washington-post-blockbuster-confirms-worst-fears-about-holder-justice-dept-race-policies\/\">BigGovernment.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many people did not vote in Philadelphia because they were intimidated by the New Black Panthers in paramilitary uniforms carrying billy clubs.&nbsp; I do know that as your basic little old lady,&nbsp; I would have been intimidated by their presence.&nbsp;&nbsp; I understand that in the past, voting rights for all&nbsp;races have not been equally&nbsp;enforced, but that is no excuse for refusing to enforce them equally now.&nbsp; It is good to see the Washington Post finally cover this story.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The article at the Washington Post details the progress of the case through the Justice Department and states:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;In the months after the case ended, tensions persisted. A new supervisor, Julie Fernandes, arrived to oversee the voting section, and Coates testified that she told attorneys at a September 2009 lunch that the Obama administration was interested in filing cases &#8211; under a key voting rights section &#8211; only on behalf of minorities.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is no way to run a government.&nbsp; Civil rights laws apply to all people in America&#8211;whether they are part of a minority or part of a majority.&nbsp; Hopefully the Justice Department will remember that in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday the Washington Post&nbsp;posted a detailed article showing the timeline and events surrounding the dismissal by the Justice Department of the 2008 New Black Panthers voter intimidation case.&nbsp; You can watch the video of the actual incident at BigGovernment.com. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2355\">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-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","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=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}