Justice is Blind so What's with the Politics

Many areas of our government are spiraling out of control, but one of the most troubling is the political pandering taking place over at the Justice Department. If our Justice Department keeps up this kind of negligent activity we will start to see an outbreak of criminal activity because those who have been charged with enforcing the rule of law are acting as lawlessly as the criminals they should be dealing with.

The following story illustrates the latest instance:

From the Washington Times - Panel Blasts Panther Case Dismissal

By Jerry Seper

"The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is demanding that the Justice Department explain why it recently dismissed a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party who disrupted a Philadelphia polling place during last year's election, saying the department has offered only "weak justifications."

Commission Chairman Gerald A. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, said he fears the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case might encourage "other hate groups" to act similarly at polling locations in the future.

Mr. Reynolds also charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.

"If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome," he told The Washington Times in a telephone interview Monday.

"A single law, a single rule should be applied across the board. We are communicating with the department in hopes of gaining a better understanding of just what happened."

The commission is an independent, fact-finding body charged with investigating civil rights complaints and making recommendations to the federal government about how to fix problems it uncovers.

In January, the Justice Department filed a civil complaint in Philadelphia against the New Black Panther Party after two of its members in black berets, black combat boots, black shirts and black jackets purportedly intimidated voters with racial insults, slurs and a nightstick. A third party member was accused of managing, directing and endorsing their behavior. The incident was captured on videotape.

Four months later, Justice officials dropped the charges because, they said, "the facts and the law did not support pursuing" them. They also said the party had disavowed what happened in Philadelphia, had suspended that city's chapter and that one of the Panthers, Jerry Jackson, had been allowed by Philadelphia police to stay at the polling place as a certified Democratic poll watcher.

But before the charges were dropped, a federal judge in April ordered default judgments against the Panthers after the party members refused to respond to the charges or appear in court. The Justice Department was also in the final stages of seeking sanctions when a delay in the proceedings was ordered by Loretta King, acting assistant attorney general.

The ruling was issued after she met with Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli, the department's No. 3 political appointee, who approved the decision, according to interviews with department officials who sought anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case."

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The trite phrase, "elections have consequences," carries with it some powerful truths and some frightening realities. We must do all that we can to prevent this administration from further damaging our society. The 2012 elections will be important to begin to undo the damage being done in the executive branch of our government.

But more imminent and pressing are the congressional elections of 2010. We must take the power away from those who have been abusing it so blatantly for many months now. We will have to work very hard to undue the damage that this democrat majority and president have and will inflict on America, so start getting the word out to more and more people about the tremendous need to get involved and to start paying more attention to what's going on.