By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--February 14, 2014
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At worst, these laws, with their disparate impact on minority communities, echo policies enacted during a deeply troubled period in America's past – a time of post-Civil War discrimination," he said. "And they have their roots in centuries-old conceptions of justice that were too often based on exclusion, animus, and fear.Predictably, it's always about race and racism with Holder. Of course Holder doesn't care about civil rights enforcement unless it pertains to blacks and other Democratic interest groups, and is viscerally opposed to one of the key rights protected in the Bill of Rights, the right to keep and bear arms (Second Amendment). He said Americans should be "brainwash[ed]" into giving up their Second Amendment rights. People should be ashamed to own guns, just as tobacco users now "cower outside of buildings" to smoke, he said.
Race-neutral enforcement of civil rights law is a principle nearly all Americans agree with. Equality before the law has been cherished since the founding, and a bloody Civil War sacrificed generations of treasure and life to enshrine race equality into constitutional law.Yet the "Obama administration doesn't believe some civil rights laws protect every American," Adams says. Under President George W. Bush, the DoJ's Civil Rights Division "was willing to protect all Americans from racial discrimination," but "during the Obama years, the Holder years, only some Americans will be protected." Leftists support this unequal enforcement of the law in lieu of slavery reparations being paid to descendants of slaves. Getting reparations approved by Congress is incredibly difficult politically, but affording preferential treatment to minorities is easy. "[M]any of the advocates of limitless leveraging of government power for the benefit of traditional national minorities view this as a backdoor way to achieve reparations for slavery and discrimination," according to Adams. "If the American public won't tolerate monetary reparations, which they won't, then a one-way approach to civil rights laws is seen as the next best alternative for their unpopular agenda. Best of all, hardly anybody notices." The hallmark of Holder's tenure has been the radicalization of the Justice Department. If you have the wrong skin color, i.e. white, don't bother asking Holder's staff lawyers to help you. This racial radicalism manifested itself early in Holder's term of office. As a DoJ lawyer, Adams and other officials brought a voter intimidation case against the uniformed, jackboot-wearing members of the New Black Panther Party who brandished a weapon and intimidated voters on Election Day 2008. DoJ "obtained an entry of default after the defendants ignored the case against them," but "before a final judgment could be entered, however, our superiors ordered dismissal of the claims." The higher-ups at the Justice Department claim the "facts and law" did not support the case, but this is nonsense, Adams says. Look at the race-obsessed radicals Obama selected to work under Holder, presumably with his approval. Assistant attorney general Thomas Perez, who has since become Secretary of Labor, has refused to prosecute hate crimes committed against white Americans. He was reportedly instrumental in getting DoJ to drop the New Black Panther Party case and he led the Obama administration's assault on voter ID laws. He was a board member of Casa de Maryland, an advocacy group for illegal aliens funded by George Soros and the late Marxist president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez. And then there's cop killer enthusiast Debo Adegbile, nominated to replace Perez at DoJ. President Obama's nominee to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer is a race-obsessed lawyer who tried to permanently free unrepentant cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. Until fairly recently head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Adegbile, like Holder, is a staunch affirmative action supporter and doesn't appear to believe that white Americans are entitled to civil rights protection. Last week a Senate committee barely approved his nomination on a 10 to 8 party-line vote. Holder himself has bitterly denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, that struck down part of the Voting Rights Act that gave the race-baiting ballot box stuffers of the Left a distinct advantage in federal elections. Written by Chief Justice John Roberts, it is essentially an official finding from the highest court in the land that America is not the racist swamp of leftist myth. The court finally recognized that the anti-discrimination provisions of the Act, which gave the federal government a veto over changes in state election laws, may have been needed when the law was enacted in 1965, but no longer. Holder sent government-paid community organizers to Sanford, Florida, after the 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin in order to foment racial tensions. The Community Relations Service (CRS), a division of the DoJ, sent political agitators to Sanford to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial anxieties and loudly demanded that shooter George Zimmerman be prosecuted. For a month and a half after Martin's death, local police declined to press charges against Zimmerman because they believed the criminal case against him was weak. But under pressure from the Left charges were eventually filed and local police chief Bill Lee was fired. The litany of prosecutorial abuses and selective prosecutions under Holder grows. There is the DoJ's refusal to take up cases involving alleged civil rights victims when the victim is white. There is also: the crackdown on Gibson Guitars; using federal resources to help anarchists and activists from the violent Occupy Wall Street movement agitate at the Republican National Convention in 2012; the DoJ's flagrant manipulation of the 2012 election; the failure to investigate crimes committed by ACORN officials; the selective prosecution of Obama critic and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza for what are at worst very minor campaign finance law violations; and the selective prosecution of another filmmaker, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, whose anti-Islam video was falsely accused of sparking the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya. This is not an exhaustive list. Meanwhile, Holder, America's first black U.S. attorney general, knows that whatever he does in office, he is likely never going to be held to account. His misdeeds will not see the light of day because the Obama-worshipping media and opposition party lawmakers are either sympathetic to Obama's agenda or are too afraid to confront the president and Holder out of fear of being tarred as racist. As Adams writes:
The havoc Holder has created goes far beyond corruption on any single issue. The damage he has done crosses all components of the Department of Justice, and has trickled down to infect the systems of law and legal jurisprudence throughout the country. He has tried to transform the federal agency intended to be above politics into an institution advocating radical change and extreme remedies.It needs to be said that the damage runs so deep that even if Holder resigns, it's not clear if his departure would make much of a difference at the Justice Department, at least not while Barack Obama remains president. As Adams has noted, the department is already infested with plenty of lawyers and officials who see the world the same way Holder does. My FrontPage magazine article today:
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Matthew Vadum, matthewvadum.blogspot.com, is an investigative reporter.
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