I just have to say that the article is from CNN. People talk badly about Fox news but the reality is CNN is what they think Fox news is. The article is an attempt to portray the tea party an conservatives as frustrated people who are beginning to turn to racism, if they weren't already there. This tactic has already been seen here on the threads where we discussed the acusations that the tea party groups are really racists. For example from the article:
• Conservative news outlets ran a number of stories last summer highlighting an incident from the 2008 elections, in which activists from the New Black Panther Party appeared to be intimidating voters at a polling place. Those claims were never proven.
Here is the voter intiimidation video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU&feature=pyv&ad=3265020430&kw=black panthers election
The claims actually were proven, the Black Panther Party was judged guilty(farther down it is more accurate to say that the black panthers, by not appearing, the justice department won the case by default,) but the Holder Justice department dropped the case against them. By saying the claims were never proven they are trying to say that tea party/conservatives, were delusional. In fact, several members of the justice department testified before congress about the new policy of not enforcing the law if the defendants were minorities and the victims were white.
Holder just testified about this in congress where he made a stupid statement.
Here is an aricle by John Fund, on the dropping of the case before summary judgement happened.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html
When none of the defendants filed any response to the complaint or appeared in federal district court in Philadelphia to answer the suit, it appeared almost certain Justice would have prevailed by default. Instead, the department in May suddenly allowed the party and two of the three defendants to walk away. Against the third defendant, Minister King Samir Shabazz, it sought only an injunction barring him from displaying a weapon within 100 feet of a Philadelphia polling place for the next three years—action that's already illegal under existing law.
There was outrage over the decision among Congressional Republicans, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division—especially after it was learned one of the defendants who walked was Jerry Jackson, a member of Philadelphia's 14th Ward Democratic Committee and a credentialed poll watcher for the Democratic Party last Election Day.
Then the Washington Times reported on July 30 that six career lawyers at Justice who had recommended continuing to pursue the case were overruled by Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli—a top administration political appointee. One of the career attorneys, Appellate Chief Diana Flynn, had urged in an internal memo that a judgment be pressed against the defendants to "prevent the paramilitary style intimidation of voters" in the future.
More from michelle malkin:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/2...ice-department-protecting-new-black-panthers/
"According to a legal source familiar with DOJ procedures, dismissing a lawsuit won by default is unheard of."
"he Bush DOJ filed suit against Malik Shabazz and two of the local NBPP radicals who were on site — one with a billy club. None of them filed an answer to the lawsuit, putting them all into default. I am told this is the easiest way to win a lawsuit. But instead of taking the default judgment that DOJ is entitled to against all of the defendants, the department last week dismissed the lawsuit against two out of the three defendants. As Election Journal (which broke the story with exclusive video of the intimidation) notes, one of the individual defendants who was dismissed, Jerry Jackson, “is an elected member of the Philadelphia Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher.”
This article is everything that the left accuses Fox news of being.
