DOJ Refused Action Against New Black Panthers

Barack Obama's Department of Justice, the same agency that stunningly dismissed the counts against baton-waving New Black Panthers who confronted Philadelphia voters in front of a polling place in 2008, now is jumping into the investigation of allegations that members of the "white middle class" intimidated minority voters in Harris County, Texas, by "hovering."

The case has developed in a county Terry O'Rourke, the first assistant in the county attorney's office, describes as probably having the most diverse population anywhere in the United States.

Because of concerns over the integrity of elections, several groups researched the voting procedures and records. Among the results was that of the 25,000 voter registrations submitted by a group called Houston Votes, headed by a man who also worked for the Service Employees International Union, only 1,793 actually were valid.

When early voting in the county opened this week, there were a number of teams that went into some of the suspect areas to monitor the voting. O'Rourke confirmed the poll watchers were "almost all white and middle class" and were going into "low-income neighborhoods."

The result was that Gerry Birnberg, the Harris County Democratic chairman, told reporters that a number of complaints had been submitted about poll watchers "hovering" over voters and "getting in their face."

A spokeswoman for local U.S. attorney's office said their team was playing no role in the review of events. But she said the investigators from DOJ headquarters in Washington were involved.  She described the involvement of the agency run by Attorney General Eric Holder as "looking into allegations of voter intimidation."

According to a Houston Chronicle report, Birnberg leveled the accusation that the poll watchers at issue had been trained by the "tea party-affiliated group the King Street Patriots."   The same report cited county Republican chief Jared Woodfill raising the issue of reports that GOP poll watchers also had been harassed.

According to the report, Hiram Sasser, who is director of litigation for Liberty Institute, is advising the Patriots. He explained that the poll watchers who have been trained through the group know to "follow the rules.”  “What's different this time is that there probably are more poll watchers now than there have ever been before," he said.

At the Washington Examiner, opinion Editor David Freddoso wrote under the headline: "DOJ goes after tea partiers, leaves club-wielding Black Panthers alone."

"Obama's politicized Justice Department has already lost all credibility when it comes to even-handed administration of justice on this matter. They let the Black Panthers off with one wrist-slap and two complete dismissals after their flagrant voter intimidation was caught on tape. Now they're worried about poll watchers 'talking to voters,'" he continued.

The most corrupt administration and DOJ in America’s history.  Elections do matter.  Americans never expected the corrupt changes that Obama is pursuing.

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