Monday, June 28, 2010

DOJ: minority rights-yes. Whites-no. It's payback time.

Eric Holder's Department of Justice does not have a race neutral approach to protecting the civil rights of citizens of the United States. Apparently if you're black, you have a right to retribution against whites through voting. The recently resigned DOJ attorney speaks for the first time here. His name is J. Christian Adams. This article at PJM is worth reading in its entirety. It's pretty shocking, actually. He discusses the dismissal of the New Black Panthers' case in Philadelphia and the abominable Ike Brown case in Mississippi and other corrupt events in this country. The attitude is one of protection for some races, but not for others, which will lead to a general lack of confidence in the rule of law in this country.

But I believe the best explanation for the corrupt dismissal of the case is the profound hostility by the Obama Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department towards a race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws.
This hostility was — and is — on open display within the Department of Justice.
Example after example exists where this dirty little secret manifested itself within the Department and affected Department policy.
Attorney General Holder and his political appointees have traveled the country claiming that they have “reopened” the Civil Rights Division. The Civil Rights Division is “back in business,” they announce, without a sniff of media scrutiny. In time, statistics and other information will present truth to this lie, as the Bush Civil Rights Division had a more robust civil rights agenda than the Obama Civil Rights Division. During the Bush years, the Civil Rights Division brought more cases in many areas of the law, particularly voting rights.
UPDATE: He's written for the Washington Times also:
Refusing to enforce the law equally means some citizens are protected by the law while others are left to be victimized, depending on their race. Core American principles of equality before the law and freedom from racial discrimination are at risk. Hopefully, equal enforcement of the law is still a point of bipartisan, if not universal, agreement. However, after my experience with the New Black Panther dismissal and the attitudes held by officials in the Civil Rights Division, I am beginning to fear the era of agreement over these core American principles has passed. 

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