Obama DOJ Drops Voter Intimidation Suit Against New Black Panthers

Barttle Bull has extensive experience as a civil rights attorney since the 1960’s.  His years of experience together with those as a poll observer in Philadelphia on November 4, 2008, led him to believe he had witnessed

“the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.

The You Tube video captured “Security patrols stationed at polling places in Philly.   He observed two men standing in front of the entrance to a polling place, wearing military style uniforms, brandishing a night stick in plain view of all.  Even,

point it at individuals and slap it in his hand.

Bull also heard one of those men say as seen in this You Tube video,

You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.

Those two men were the leaders of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia.  One was a Democratic poll watcher. 

The Bush Justice Department sued the men.  Bull filed an affidavit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania describing his eyewitness account. 

A pretty clear case of voter intimidation.  Any high school student can arrive at that conclusion.  Anyone without an education would sense fear at crossing the “security patrol.”

However, the case was thrown out by Obama Justice Department political appointees.

The career Justice lawyers were on the verge of securing sanctions against the men earlier this month when their superiors ordered them to reverse course, according to interviews and documents. The court had already entered a default judgment against the men on April 20.

Puzzling?  An astute mind would remember when George Bush’s Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez fired 9 U.S. attorneys general.  He subsequently resigned  in part when it appeared there were political motivations behind the firings.     

So the question becomes, why is it that such a clear cut case of voter intimidation, where the accused have failed to answer the lawsuit, and thus had already accepted default summary judgment, that the Obama DOJ political appointees suddenly turned about face and dropped the suit against the New Black party Panther members?  Should they not be held to task for such a visible politically motivated action?

Michelle Malkin sought proper perspective.  

According to a legal source familiar with DOJ procedures, dismissing a lawsuit won by default is unheard of.

Apparently , it is now a loud and clear way of doing business in the Obama  DOJ.  Clear the field of anything that might make Barack Obama look unfavorable, particularly the methods his supporters used to elect him.   

See:

• http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/bull-declaration_04-07-20092.pdf
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
• http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/05/30/%E2%80%9Cyou-are-about-to-be-ruled-by-the-black-man-cracker%E2%80%9D/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kPSkwAkLIk
• http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/29/career-lawyers-overruled-on-voting-case/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/washington/27cnd-gonzales.html?_r=2&oref=slogin
• http://michellemalkin.com/2009/05/28/why-is-the-obama-justice-department-protecting-new-black-panthers/