While ‘official Washington’ and the Establishment Media was focused on Stephen Colbert’s immature immigration hearing, which cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of wasted dollars, a real, genuine hearing was taking place. Christopher Coates, former head of the Department of Justice voter rights division, testified to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on the policy of reverse discrimination. How the case against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) was dropped due to Eric Holder and DoJ officials exercising on this policy change since the Obama administration came to power.
The case involves several members of the NBPP who were charged with voter intimidation in Philadelphia during the November 2008 election. Members stood outside a polling location and attempted to ‘persuade’ whites citizens not to vote at all. The JoD under President Bush investigated the case. While criminal charges were dropped, a civil suit was filed and prosecuted. The court sided with the JoD and ruled against the NBPP.
Enter the Obama administration and it’s appointees, Eric Holder, Thomas Perez and others. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the JoD decided to drop the case, despite having won a judgment already. Perez was featured prominently in some 122 emails between JoD officials in the months of April and May of 2009 concerning the decision according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch.
During his testimony, Coates named names, verifying earlier testimony given by former JoD attorney J. Christian Adams. “I had people who told me point-blank that [they] didn’t come to the voting rights section to sue African-American people,” said Coates. The case against the NBPP was only the second such with a white defendant pursued by the JoD. In 2005, a voters rights case from Mississippi also was largely opposed by many career officials within the JoD.
Coates said “Opposition within the voting section was widespread to taking actions under the Voting Rights Act on behalf of white voters in Noxubee County, Mississippi.” He said “A Voting Section career attorney informed me that he was opposed to bringing voting rights cases against African American defendants … until we reached the day when the socio-economic status of blacks in Mississippi was the same as the socio-economic status of whites living there.” Coates goes on to point out that “Of course, there’s nothing in the statutory language of the VRA that indicates DoJ lawyers can decide not to enforce the race-neutral prohibitions in the Act against racial discrimination… until socio-economic parity is achieved between blacks and whites in the jurisdiction in which the cases arise.”
The Far Left Media has already gone on the offensive, either by not reporting on the Coates testimony at all, or attempting to smear him as a “Bush-era official”. They ignore the fact that Coates was a former attorney for the ACLU and was appointed to the DoJ by Bill Clinton. Coates, is in fact, a Liberal, perhaps a bit too idealistic for his own good, as he believes the law should be equal and apply equally to all regardless of race.
Christopher Coates appearance before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission was a damning blow to the Obama administration and the current officials running the Department of Justice. Coates was reassigned last summer from head of the Voting Rights section and transferred to South Carolina because he was dissatisfied with being over-ruled by his bosses in the DoJ over the dismissal of the case against the New Black Panther Party. Coates’ verified the previous testimony of former DoJ attorney, J. Christian Adams that Eric Holder and other high ranking DoJ officials suspended the voter intimidation case against the NBPP for racial bias reasons.
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September 25th, 2010 at 8:16 am
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September 25th, 2010 at 9:17 am
I don’t know about your neighborhood but these two Black Panthers would only last seconds at my polling place.
September 25th, 2010 at 10:47 am
Same here.
Where I come from they’d of been met with a pickup full of Samoans.
September 25th, 2010 at 11:28 am
Obammy should have fired somebody, anybody, when this debacle first became public knowledge but the arrogant s.o.b. thought he and Holder were bigger than the Constitution.
Now it’s going to blow up on him right before the election.
September 25th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Andrew
You stated that the hearing with Colbert cost Americans hundreds of thousands of dollars. PROVE IT!! Where is your proof!!?
September 25th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
YAZAN
Are you totally fcking brain dead ?
What did we learn from Colbert as a “expert” on illegal immigrant labor ?
Bo you think everyone who sat on that panel works for free ?
In the face of common freaking sense only you would want proof.
Camera crews, air time, setting up rooms. coordination, the hundreds that got paid to produce and air this.
Did we learn how to deal with/approach, or eliminate illegal labor ?
NO !
SO YES ! IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY YOU SIMPLE MINDED LOON
September 25th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Micky
Im asking for proof that the whole hearing cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to TAX PAYERS, not that hundreds of thousands of dollars might have been spent by News organizations etc….
Where is the bill to the government that proves hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on the hearing by the government itself!!?
September 25th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Bring documented proof that the Government spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the hearing.
The real issue here is that it has been proven that it spends hundreds of billions of dollars on wasteful wars, under Bush and Obama. And that it wastes billions of dollars every year on the Zionist machine.
September 25th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
@ Yazan
The average cost per hour of any Congressional hearing is roughly $125,000.
If America is ever going to get out of the mess we’re in, it’s high time that the Congress itself exercise some responsibility and quit wasting money on cr@p like this! Bad enough they waste our money on Indonesian ants, Florida turtle-tunnels and crack-monkey research.
September 25th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I agree, to a degree, Yazan, that we spend way too much money on military adventures. Personally, I’m in favor of bringing the troops home to protect our own borders. If somebody gets out of line someplace, then we can send a drone to whack’em.
We have 900 bases in 135 countries. Policing the world was a really bad idea.
September 25th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Andy this week a guest on msnbc said we have spent 3 trillion dollars on iraq alone if you add up “everything”> it costs about 1 milion dollars to field one soldjier in afghanistan. So yes, we are spending huge amounts, for dubious results at best. We are running out of money. 900 military bases cost a fortune. How did the country that barely won the revolutionary war, advocated for small central government and miliatias. promised a republican democracy, made up of mostly farmers and small businessmen, end up such a huge global military empire? What have we become?
September 25th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
This goes well beyond either political party as this is what they both came up with after so elections over the last 150 years. I see a pattern that reminds me of the Union after the civil war when it launched its Indian American wars. very similar pattern, same kind of language, similar goals and well its in the dna. I think the core of the people that settled here were more aggressive and extroverted in their approach to developing the new continent and in similar fashion the new world order. The taliban say the Americans are the fiercest fighters they have ever faced and have a lot of heart and dedication and are even down right crazy in their use of force.
September 25th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
@ Brian
If you believe Glenn Beck, it actually started earlier with the Mexican-American War and the whole Jacksonian Manifest Destiny concept.
That $3 Trillion on Iraq is bogus, as he is counting money that would have been spent whether the troops were in Iraq or Ft. Hood. Iraq cost us about a $1 Trillion. Afghanistan probably about half that, though it will catch up fast.
It’s a shame. I used to like Old Hickory. Teddy Roosevelt, too. But as I grow older, wiser and more paranoid, I can see that those two caused a lot of trouble. They laid the ground work for what we’ve become.
September 25th, 2010 at 4:41 pm
Andrew
The Past is the past and we can’t change it.
We can say we wish we did this and we wish we didn’t do this and we wish this and that didn’t happen all day long…. but the fact is that there is no such thing as a time machine. Thus it was decreed and written and thus did it occur.
But for future reference and to learn from past errors and not for the sake of complaining, there are better ways to deal with small bands of terrorists that don’t require so much blood and treasure to be expended as in the past.
September 25th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
The Taliban should fear and respect us, Brian. We’ve shown throughout history that we are willing to sacrifice blood when required. Two of my all-time favorite movies are “12 O’Clock High” and “Command Decision”. Both deal with the Army Air Corps bombing campaigns over Germany in WW2.
When you think about what those guys went through flying five miles up, breathing oxygen through a tube through skies infested with Messerschimdts and flak. If they’re really lucky, maybe 5% of their bombs hit the target while they stand a 1-in-3 chance of surviving their tour of duty. Or our submarine force and merchant sailors, both of whom had the highest casualty rates of the war.
The Taliban, and the world, need to realize that just because we carry I-pods and drink diet sodas that we still are the same people we were back then. If anything even more coarser with less respect for life.
September 25th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
@ Yazan
I agree, there are better ways to deal with terrorist groups. There are now even better ways to deal with nations and topple regimes.
September 25th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
In addition to our uniformed army in iraq there is a contractor khaki clothed army and in fact has often doubled the number manpower and much of the troops there. So take whatever real figures you can get for our regular army, and near double it for the contractor army, and all the project money used or disappeared and I think you will find we spent much more than a trillion in iraq over 7-8 years there. In helicoptors alone we spent a huge fortune. Near Six hundred thousand meals a day for 7 years adds up. And all the money dumped into various groups of the insurgency to buy their loyalty. We spent a helluva(Southpark Carmen) lot. Even now as we pull out half our troops a contractor army nearly double the size toils on in iraq.
September 25th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Is this all the “New Black Panthers” can do? Post a couple of goons outside a polling place? Where’s the bombs? Where are the bank robberies? The kidnapped heiresses? I think they need to grow some balls, give ol’ Fox News something to REALLY go on about, instead of having to make things up. It would be better all around. Give the Right what they want, and the Left too.
September 26th, 2010 at 9:04 am
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September 26th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Christopher Coates and J. Christian Adams have both been accused of racism s number of times at DOJ. Coates was widely known to use racial epithets and get drunk while on official government business during election coverage. Adams refused to be involved in cases involving minorities and was also accused of intimidating a Black couple in South Carolina. No credibility.
Christopher Coates is racist.
J. Christian Adams is more racist.
September 26th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
YAZAN:
“Micky
Im asking for proof that the whole hearing cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to TAX PAYERS, not that hundreds of thousands of dollars might have been spent by News organizations etc….”
No a$$hole.
Heres what you said.
“You stated that the hearing with Colbert cost Americans hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Even without production costs it in fact does cost hundreds of thousands just to gather and fly/drive in only three or four of these morons.
September 26th, 2010 at 7:24 pm
“real issue here is that it has been proven that it spends hundreds of billions of dollars on wasteful wars, under Bush and Obama. And that it wastes billions of dollars every year…
Got any “PROOF” that it was wasteful ?
Just because you hate jews and are an anti semitic little prick whos people were popcorn farted out of neigboring Arab states ?
kicking the ever loving sht out of closet terrorist and those like you who condone kiddy fcking is never a waste
September 26th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
“Andy this week a guest on msnbc ”
Man, that’ll cut short any rational debate
September 26th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Micky
You sure like talking crap over the computer from hundreds of miles away. What a brave man!!
September 26th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Hey a$$hole…
Do you not see the ironic stupidity in that statement ?