OUR RACIST – ANTI-WHITE RACIST – GOVERNMENT

"He pointed the billy club at me and said: ‘Now you will see what it means to be ruled by the black man, Cracker."

So testified Bartle Bull of the scene in front of a predominantly black polling place in north Philadelphia on election day, 2008.

"It struck me as ironic that having worked as a civil rights lawyer and being threatened in Mississippi, I was being threatened in this way here," said Mr. Bull, who had managed Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign in New York state and is the former publisher of the left-wing Village Voice in New York.

A roving poll watcher that day, Mr. Bull had come to the precinct because of reports two members of the New Black Panther Party, dressed in paramilitary garb, were intimidating voters:  Jerry Jackson, a credentialed Democrat poll watcher, and Maurice Heath (who insists on being called "King Samir Shabazz"), the head of the NBP party in Philadelphia.  A camera phone recorded Mr. Heath-Shabazz brandishing a nightstick. 

Founded in Dallas in 1989, the New Black Panther party is described by the Anti- Defamation League as "the largest organized anti-Semitic and racist black militant group in America," and the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "black Ku Klux Klan."

In a National Geographic special, Mr. Shabazz was filmed declaring, "I hate white people, all of them, every last iota of a cracker I hate him," and shouting at a black man with a white girlfriend: "You’re gonna have to kill some crackers.  You’re gonna have to kill some of their babies."  Here’s the video, aired on Fox News.

In the first week of January in 2009 (that is before Mr. Obama’s inauguration), the Justice Department charged Jerry Jackson, "King Samir Shabazz," national New Black Panther Party leader Paris Lewis (who calls himself "Malik Zulu Shabazz"), and the New Black Panther party with violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965.  Justice sought an injunction that permanently would bar all members of the New Black Panthers from brandishing weapons near polling places.

The New Black Panthers didn’t contest the suit, which meant Justice would win by default.  But in May, just before a judge was about to issue the injunction, Justice — now headed by Obama appointees — dropped charges against all but "King Samir Shabazz," and asked that he be enjoined only until 2012.

The Civil Rights Commission began investigating last year, but Attorney General Eric Holder forbade the career (non-political) attorneys who’d worked on the case from testifying.  On June 1, one of them, J. Christian Adams, resigned in protest.

The other career attorneys who worked with him viewed the voter intimidation as very serious, and all opposed dropping the charges, Mr. Adams told the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights July 6.

The case was serious because the New Black Panthers planned to deploy 300 of its members to polling places, and because there were reports of intimidation of Hillary Clinton supporters during voting in the Democrat primaries, Mr. Adams said.

A similar charge has been made in a documentary released earlier this year by Hillary Clinton supporters in Hollywood.  The Obama campaign "encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places," say the producers of "We Will Not Be Silenced."

The career lawyers were told cases of voter intimidation will not be pursued if the victims are white, Mr. Adams said.  An Obama appointee told them Justice also won’t enforce laws against vote fraud.

Let that sink in.  Think of what that means for the election on this November 2^nd  or in 2012.

It was front page news for weeks when, during the Bush administration, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez fired nine U.S. attorneys primarily for political reasons, though this was not illegal, since U.S. attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president.

It is illegal for the Justice Department selectively to enforce civil rights law.  But the "mainstream" media have been incurious about the New Black Panther case.

CBS’ Bob Schieffer conducted a lengthy interview with Attorney General Holder on the "Face the Nation" program July 11, but failed to ask a single question about the New Black Panthers. 

The Washington Post ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, apologized Sunday (7/18) for the lack of attention his newspaper has paid to the story.

Apparently we now have one law for blacks and another for whites, one standard for covering Democrats, another for covering Republicans.  Equal justice under law and impartial news coverage are both receding into memory.  The America we once knew is receding into memory.

Jack Kelly is a former Marine and Green Beret and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force in the Reagan administration. He is national security writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.