National Review Online has posted this video and it’s been widely discussed on radio and Fox News.

Since the original Tea Party rallies, left-wing groups have encouraged their members to show up to Tea Party events posing as a conservative supporter and behave as a rampant racist. Now that Democrats are heading into massive looming defeats in this November’s elections, expect to see and hear more about racist Tea Party and Republican supporters. However, don’t be fooled, there’s a 99.9% chance that every racist caught on film at these events is really a liberal plant.

On Thursday, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about the significance of Tuesday’s vote where 71% of Missouri voters approved a state law that would exempt them from ObamaCare’s mandate requiring every American to purchase federally-approved health insurance. In true elitist fashion, Gibbs, the mouthpiece of the banana republic administration currently occupying the federal government gave a simple one-word answer; “Nothing.” 

Unfortunately, this can’t really be too surprising since this administration has proven time and time again that it doesn’t regard anyone’s opinion other than their own as legitimate.

There has never been an administration this content to rule against the will of the people. Neither the president nor the Democrat leaders in Congress believe that we are smart enough to make our own decisions and they won’t hesitate for a second to use every bit of their legitimate and self-created power to thrust their radical agenda on the nation. November can’t come soon enough.

In 2004, Senator Ted Kennedy played a key role in convincing a change in Massachusetts state law concerning how the state selects new federal legislators in the event that a serving US senator or representative is forced to leave office midterm. During the 2004 election, as hopes were running high that Senator John Kerry would win the White House, Ted Kennedy and other Massachusetts Democrats were concerned that if Kerry did win the election then the Republican governor, Mitt Romney, would be able to appoint Kerry’s replacement. At the behest of Kennedy, state legislators changed the law and take the choice away from the governor and, instead, select the replacement through a special election to be held within five months after the office is vacated. The state’s law was changed but Kerry ended up losing the election so no replacement was needed. Now, Senator Kennedy is suffering from a brain tumor of the same type that just ended journalist Robert Novak’s life. If something were to happen to Kennedy, Senate Democrats would lose their filibuster-proof majority unless the special election ended up electing another Democrat – which in Massachusetts, there’s a better-than-average chance Kennedy will be replaced with another liberal. However, things have changed since 2004 when Kennedy pushed the state to change their laws. Democrat Duval Patrick is now governor and health care reform will be before the US Senate soon where the Democrats will need every one of their 60 votes to ensure passage. Therefore, Kennedy has written state officials asking them to undo the 2004 changes, granting the governor the power to appoint legislators to fill vacancies.

Even Kennedy admits that his request is purely motivated by politics. In his letter to state officials, Kennedy describes health care reform as the most important issue in his life’s work. His request is not based on the best interest of his constituents. Instead, it’s based on the best interests of his party.

Mary Jo Kopechne learned about laws that don't help Kennedy's career.

Laws are created in order to provide guidance on reaching solutions to future issues before they arise. When government officials decide to arbitrarily change laws that won’t benefit them, the rule of law becomes irrelevant. Massachusetts Democrats should not be allowed to wield the state’s laws and regulations as a weapon against their opponents as they previously did in 2004 when they changed the law at Kennedy’s request the first time. However, this wouldn’t be the first time that Ted Kennedy threw his weight around to avoid laws that he thought were inconvenient to his political career – just as Mary Jo Kopechne.

In a twisted turn of events, the Washington Examiner reports that Dennis Rivera, the health care chairman of the SEIU issued as statement denouncing the “radical fringe right-wingers” use of “terrorist tactics” to avoid debate on health care reform. This statement comes the day after SEIU thugs hospitalized a 38-year-old conservative in St. Louis following a town hall meeting hosted by Democrat Russ Carnahan. Ken Gladney, the hospitalized man, was participating in the “terrorist tactic” of distributing “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and committing the ultimate sin, in the eyes of his SEIU assailants, of being an African American conservative. The SEIU members hurled racial slurs at the “radical fringe right-winger,” Gladney, before stomping him to the ground. Six people were arrested for the assault, three of which were wearing purple SEIU shirts.

On a conference call to his network of thugs, Rivera ordered the “purple army” to increase their presence at town hall meetings. White House Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius addressed the union earlier in the same conference call.

Democrats sit at the top of a "thug-ocracy" that works like another notorius Chicago operation. Groups like the SEIU and ACORN serve as "enforcers."

These incidents will continue until members from ACORN or SEIU provoke a reaction that can be splashed across the headlines. Meanwhile, Gladney remains in St. John’s Mercy Hospital recovering from his “terrorist tactics” of expressing his First Amendment Rights.

The St. Louis Tea Party Coalition has published a letter from Kenneth Gladney’s attorney who witnessed members of the Service Employees International Union assault his client last night after a town hall meeting organized by Democrat Russ Carnahan. As mentioned previously, hundreds of thousands of protestors gathered across the nation last April with no instances of violence and no town hall meeting until last night witnessed any violent events. Violence only began after B. Hussein Obama and his Democrat colleagues called out their hired thugs in the SEIU and ACORN to confront the average Americans showing up to voice opposition to ObamaCare. This has no place in a free society. Apparently, though, Obama Land isn’t supposed to be a free society.

Here’s the letter posted at http://stlouisteaparty.com/:

August 7, 2009

Dear Mr. Hennessy:

I am Kenneth Gladney’s attorney. Kenneth was attacked on the evening of August 6, 2009 at Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting in South St. Louis County. I was at the town hall meeting as well and witnessed the events leading up to the attack of Kenneth. Kenneth was approached by an SEIU representative as Kenneth was handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags to other conservatives. The SEIU representative demanded to know why a black man was handing out these flags. The SEIU member used a racial slur against Kenneth, then punched him in the face. Kenneth fell to the ground. Another SEIU member yelled racial epithets at Kenneth as he kicked him in the head and back. Kenneth was also brutally attacked by one other male SEIU member and an unidentified woman. The three men were clearly SEIU members, as they were wearing T-shirts with the SEIU logo.

Kenneth was beaten badly. One assailant fled on foot; three others were arrested. Kenneth was admitted to St. John’s Mercy Medical Center emergency room, where he was treated for his numerous injuries. Kenneth was merely expressing his freedom of speech by handing out the flags. In fact, he merely asked people as they exited the town hall meeting whether they would like a flag. He in no way provoked any argument or altercation, as evidenced by the fact that three assailants were arrested.

We hope that Kenneth fully recovers from his injuries; however, he is in great pain at this time. We will be pursuing legal action at our discretion. This was a truly senseless hate crime carried out by racist union thugs. Regretfully, Representative Carnahan’s statements blaming Kenneth for being a disruptive force are wholly untrue and slanderous. We would like to think that an elected official in Representative Carnahan’s position would gather accurate information before carelessly rushing to judgment.

Kenneth supports conservative ideals, although he subscribes to no particular political party. We are calling on the SEIU, Representative Carnahan, and President Obama to condemn the racist actions of these union thugs. In the days to come, we will be investigating whether these thugs are working at the behest of Representative Carnahan and how strong their alliances to various organizations–such as ACORN–may be.

We hope the St. Louis Tea Party and tea party organizations around the country will protest Representative Carnahan’s offices and also protest SEIU offices in every major city across the U.S. These Democratic strong-arm tactics must end now.

Regards,

Attorney David B. Brown

The St. Louis Tea Party coalition joins in the call for apologies from Carnahan, SEIU, and President Obama.  This criminal attack was inspired by DNC and BarackObama.com propaganda.  Only Thursday morning, the White House promised “punch back twice as hard.”  Clearly, the goons of SEIU decided to draw the first blood.

We believe that this attack was planned and intended to create a riot to discredit the American political resistence.  Luckily, the patriots who attend tea parties and town halls did not take the bait.  Mr. Gladney did not fight back. Mr. Gladney, like Crispus Attucks, suffered for the promise of freedom — the freedom his race was so long denied.  We salute Kenneth Gladney.  We are proud that he is on our side.

We all pray for Ken.  May he recover quickly and fully from his injuries inflicted by leftist thugs in an attempt to subvert his First Amendment rights.

TELL THE SEIU THAT WE OPPOSE VIOLENCE

SEIU
5585 Pershing Ave.
Suite 130
St. Louis, MO 63112

PHONE: 314.367.0013
FAX: 314.361.8704

The St. Louis Tea Party Coalition is sponsoring a peaceful march in front of the SEIU St. Louis headquarters this Saturday. They are asking the NAACP and ACLU for support and for Russ Carnahan’s office to renounce the violence committed by his supporters. We won’t hold our breath for any of them.

B. Hussein Obama has relied on the SEIU's "purple people" to do his bidding throughout his entire political career. Last night in St. Louis, SEIU members hospitalized a 38-year-old man they brutally beat. Russ Carnahan's office apparently coordinated with the SEIU members in attendence who were accomodated with reserved seating and special entrance into the building.

Is there any real doubt about the cause of the sudden outbreak of violence at town hall meetings? Vocal opponents to the Democrats’ health care reform proposals made news as they openly questioned and debated their elected representatives. While the meetings often got loud, they never approached violence. B. Hussein Obama and his loyal liberal activist groups changed this peaceful track record. Democrat leaders sent their caucus members into August recess with a mission; convince constituents opposed to ObamaCare that they don’t know what they are talking about. To push through the government hijacking of the health care industry, Democrats had to convince Americans that their elected leaders know what is best and opposition is purely based in ignorance. Nancy Pelosi told House Democrats that they could expect support in the health care debate from loyal liberal groups, including the thuggish Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Speaking to Senate Democrats, White House aide Jim Messina said, “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard.” This week, after constant videos showing crowds openly challenging the basis for ObamaCare, the president sent an email to 13 million of his supporters urging them to show up to these meetings to overwhelm opponents to the plan. Democrats have accused the angry average Americans at these town hall meetings of being “Astroturf” – not genuinely angry but instead motivated by special interests, the Republican Party, and insurance and health care companies. None of the Obama-friendly press seemed to see the absurdity of enlisting armies of protestors who hadn’t been attending town halls to confront the “Astroturf” crowds of thousands of Americans who were in attendance well before anyone sent them an email urging them to show up. Which side is “Astroturfing”

Throughout the week, White House Press Secretary, Robert “Ahh” Gibbs labeled ObamaCare opponents’ anger “manufactured.” Never mind any of the polls that show wide gaps between the number of Americans opposed to ObamaCare versus those who still support it. Not one major poll shows overall support for Obama Care. One in particular showed that a whopping 70% of “well-informed” independents oppose ObamaCare. Yet, Democrats are telling their constituents that Obama Care is widely supported. These Democrats are claiming that huge sections of their constituents don’t actually exist and somehow the same Democrats wonder why so many angry Americans are showing up to voice their frustrations. Speaking about his ignorant opponents, President Obama exclaimed, “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess.” Essentially, the President of the United States of America is telling citizens to shut up and sit down. There is no room for dissent in Obama’s America. The White House and their supporters view public opposition as the equivalent of treason. The liberal idea of “dissent is the highest form of patriotism” is dead, unless the topic turns back to George W. Bush.

Kenneth Gladney felt the president’s wrath firsthand. After Democrat Russ Carnahan’s town hall meeting Thursday night in St. Louis, 38-year-old Gladney was brutally beaten by SEIU thugs who were given special access to the event. Upon arriving to the middle school where the meeting was held, over 1,000 protesters found out that most of them would not be admitted inside. However, while regular constituents were left waiting outside, SEIU members were being admitted through a side door to the school. The conference room was set up with a general seating section on one side and a roped-off section labeled with a “Reserved” sign on the other. Union members filled the reserved section. After the meeting, as crowds were exiting, Gladney was outside passing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when he was assaulted. He told reporters from St. John Mercy’s emergency room that the union members used a racial slur against him and proceeded to beat him. Before the attack, the union members used a racial slur towards Gladney, a conservative African American, before they beat him. According to Gladney, the SEIU member who used the racial slur was also black. “It just seems there’s no freedom of speech without being attacked,” Gladney told reporters from the Post-Dispatch. As of Friday afternoon, Gladney was still being treated after being admitted to the hospital. He is expected to remain there at least one more day.

After his union thugs hospitalized a man whose only crime was opposing B. Hussein Obama, Russ Carnahan released a statement blaming the average American protestors for the violence. He didn’t even acknowledge that his SEIU goons who were specially accommodated for in the meeting were the offending parties. Carnahan’s office released a statement saying, “Sadly we’ve seen stories about disrupters around the country, and we have a handful of them here in Missouri. Instead of participating in a civil debate, they have mobilized with special interests in Washington who have lined their pockets by overcharging Americans for a broken health care system.” Carnahan has no regret that the criminals he invited to the meeting and reserved special a special seating section for ended up attacking his constituents. He doesn’t have any shame and obviously shares in his fellow Democrats’ contempt for average Americans. Start packing your desk now, Russ and be ready to move after the next elections in November 2010. Your days as a member of the US House of Representatives are limited. We don’t need to resort to your level of criminal intimidation, we only need to visit the voting booths next year. 

Democrats are hiring their goons to come in and provoke the average Americans who are opposed to Obama Care. After launching campaigns to brand these concerned citizens an “angry mob,” Democrats are looking to agitate the crowds in order to get clips of violence for the evening news. They can’t win the battle of honest ideas so they are working hard to discredit anyone opposing them. Hopefully, concerned citizens attending these meetings don’t take the bait and resist confronting the rabble-rousers hired by the Democrat Party to stir the pot. Obama Care is going down in flames, prompting the president to mobilize his “muscle for money” armies. Is it any surprise that violence is now appearing in these protests after Obama calls out his attack dogs?

This article was first published on InsideSTL.com on June 22, 2009. Please visit www.insidestl.com every Monday to read my latest articles there and participate in the comment forums.

New Black Panther Party members intimidated voters last November on Obama's behalf. Obama's Justice Department dropped the civil suit against them and refused to pursue criminal charges.

Shortly after taking office, Obama’s Justice Department (DOJ) dropped charges against three members of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) videotaped last November outside of a Philadelphia polling place in full jack-booted paramilitary apparel, with one holding a police-style nightstick intimidating anyone not voting for Obama. The men told one voter, “Prepare to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” Obama’s DOJ appointees dropped the charges against the men even though the court had already issued a default judgment against them. Two were completely exonerated and the man wielding the nightstick was ordered not to brandish a weapon in front of a polling place until November 13, 2010. (Come November 14, 2010, it’s back to business as usual!) A New York attorney from the civil rights era called this incident the “most blatant display of voter intimidation” he had ever seen. The administration was never asked to explain why they dismissed a case that had already been won. Obama has now targeted an inspector general for embarrassing two of his political allies to the same absence of protests.

During his work overseeing AmeriCorps, inspector general Gerald Walpin discovered that Sacramento, Calif. Mayor and Obama political supporter, Kevin Johnson, had misused much of the $800,000 of AmeriCorps grant money awarded to the St. HOPE Academy of Sacramento. The grants were intended for redevelopment of several school buildings, tutoring students, and establishing theater and arts programs. Walpin discovered that Johnson had instead illegally used the money to influence school board elections, pad staff members’ salaries, and send AmeriCorps members on personal errands such as washing his car. Walpin suspended Johnson from receiving any further federal funds and ordered him to pay back the misused federal tax dollars. However, after Johnson was elected mayor of Sacramento, the suspension barred him from accessing any stimulus money. Lawrence Brown, a US Attorney’s Office prosecutor who took over after the Bush-appointed Attorney left, decided not to pursue any criminal charges against Johnson and attempted to have Walpin lift the suspension. Walpin refused. The Wall Street Journal stated that after Walpin’s refusal, Brown cut off all contact with him and worked directly with the board in charge of AmeriCorps to clear Johnson and water down Johnson’s financial obligations from the settlement.

Across the country in New York, Walpin uncovered inefficiencies in a grant program conducted by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) whose primary entity is AmeriCorps. Walpin’s finding angered CNCS chairman, Alan Solomont. The Washington Times describes Solomont as “a longtime top Democratic donor who bundled more than $800,000 combined for the Obama presidential campaign and Inauguration.” The program Walpin was investigating was the organization’s largest, receiving $80 million in federal funding. Needless to say, with his largest program threatened, Solomont wasn’t pleased and he let Obama know it. What happens when an independent regulator stands between Obama and his lackeys? Someone has to go and it wasn’t going to be any of Obama’s friends. Campaign promises of a new era of government transparency and accountability suddenly became obsolete. 

Walpin is being fired and slandered by the administration for embarrassing two of Obama's political allies.

About two weeks ago, Walpin, received a call from Obama’s special counsel, Norman Eisen, demanding that he either resign within the hour or else be fired. The only reason given from Eisen was that Obama “thought it was time for [Walpin] to move on.” The administration insisted that it was merely a “coincidence” that Walpin had conducted two investigations that embarrassed and angered two of Obama’s important political allies and threatened an organization crucial to Obama’s radical plans for “change.”

In the past, AmeriCorps has funneled money to groups like ACORN and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Both organizations play a major role in promoting Obama’s agenda. For example, SEIU and ACORN coordinated the protests over the AIG bonuses while remaining silent when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac paid larger amounts to their executives. The nurses union declaring support for Obama’s universal health care plan, the AFSCME Nurses Association, is an ACORN group. This union represents only 1.6 percent of America’s licensed nurses but is often quoted by the administration as approval from “medical professionals.” Democrats have refused to investigate ACORN while increasing funds available to them and even awarding them a role in the 2010 census. (That’s right. A group currently charged in 14 states for voter registration fraud is going to be trusted to gather data that determines representation in the House, Electoral College votes, and federal resource allocation.) These are incestuous organizations whose leaders frequently overlap. After dismissing Walpin, AmeriCorps can receive a “sympathetic” inspector general which would allow the Obama administration to allocate money for any dubious cause under the radar. Adding to the White House’s influence of AmeriCorps and CNCS, Michelle Obama’s former chief of staff, Jackie Norris, recently stepped down from her White House position in order to become a “senior advisor” for CNCS. American Spectator stated that White House sources have confirmed that Norris and Obama have already discussed how AmeriCorps could fit into the First Lady’s volunteerism projects. A White House staffer explained, “We have a very clear agenda and a lot of plans for that organization; we wouldn’t be giving it the resources that we are if we didn’t.” Those “resources” are up to $6 billion in taxpayer dollars. The White House doesn’t need an independent inspector general intruding on these plans. A Senate Republican aide stated, “You look at what the CNCS is funding over there: a ‘Social Investment Fund,’ which over the next five years is going to hand out almost half a billion dollars to young people to start up community activist organizations. Who the hell is going to be monitoring that kind of underwriting?” Obama’s lapdogs will become the “watchdogs.”

In 2008, Congress passed the Inspectors General Reform Act which requires the president to give Congress 30 days notice and a full explanation when firing any inspector general. The purpose was to establish independence of the offices of inspectors general. The bill was cosponsored by then-junior senator from Illinois, B. Hussein Obama. In firing Walpin, Obama blatantly disregarded the legislation he cosponsored. Only after the firing came under question, the White House has claimed Walpin, who will turn 78 this year, had succumbed to senility and was incoherent when answering questions and handling official business. Take the time to read Walpin’s interviews with Byron York in the Washington Examiner or the transcript of his appearance on Lou Dobbs last Friday night and decide whether Obama’s accusation holds water. The administration has succeeded in making the Black Panthers’ case appear insignificant. Is this really the “change” that Obama’s supporters believed in last November?

Attorney General Eric Holder is quickly become Obama's "election-fixer-in-chief."

American Thinker has uncovered a story about Attorney General Eric Holder’s instructions to the state of Georgia to end their voter ID programs. Rick Moran of AM, explains that Loretta King from the Justice Department sent a letter to Georgia authorities claiming that voter ID laws are “frequently inaccurate and has a “discriminatory effect” on minority voters.” King’s letter goes on to state, “This flawed system frequently subjects a disproportionate number of African-American, Asian and/or Hispanic voters to additional, and more importantly, erroneous burdens on the right to register to vote.” In promoting the standard liberal nonsensical argument against requiring voters to prove their identity, the Obama administration is continuing its assault on free, valid elections. However, this action by the Justice Department is defying Supreme Court precedent and a blatant example of B. Hussein Obama’s lawless power grab.

On August 28, 2008, the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 in favor of Indiana’s voter identification laws. As John Fund points out in his book, Stealing Elections,” even Justice Stephen Breyer who is traditionally one of the most liberal justices said that even he would have affirmed the Indiana voter ID laws had they been more similar to the voter ID laws of Georgia. (Emphasis mine.) That’s correct; AG Holder is telling Georgia, a state with ID requirements less stringent than Indiana’s laws which were affirmed in a Supreme Court decision, to cease their voter ID requirements before the 2010 election. Indiana and Georgia’s voter ID laws have been determined constitutional. However, a thug US attorney general dictating that a state drop laws enacted through the proper state legislative procedures is highly unconstitutional. This is another stunning example of B. Hussein Obama’s complete disregard for the rule of law and his continuous morphing from an elected President of the United States of America to a two-bit thug dictator of the likes found in banana republics. (Coincidently, Obama is also transforming the American economy to the stability of a third-world banana republic.)

Loretta King’s letter paints a picture of poor minorities being turned away from the polls because they can’t afford to purchase a government-issued ID. There are a couple of things wrong with this idea. The first is that during the challenges to both Indiana and Georgia’s voter ID laws, liberal groups claiming disenfranchisement over the law failed to find a single person unable to obtain identification. Both states subsidize ID’s for low-income residents who may not otherwise be able to purchase one. None of the groups who claimed that there are hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters because of the ID requirements could produce one single witness who was actually disenfranchised. Every witness admitted during the depositions that since the ID’s were free, they could easily obtain one.

The only reason left to fight the ID requirement at the polls is that it hinders vote fraud. As ACORN artificially inflates voter rolls across the nation through swamping election authorities with fraudulent registrations and looser mail in and absentee requirements make it easier than ever to fraudulently vote, identification laws are a strong tool to preserve the legitimacy of American elections. Through forcing states to abandon these laws, the Obama administration is securing the vote for illegal immigrants, felons, and others not eligible to legally vote. All of the subgroups who will have more illegal access to the polls also overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.

AG Holder has already dismissed a lawsuit filed against Missouri because the state failed to take any efforts to purge deceased voters or voters who moved to a new jurisdiction from the state’s voting registration rolls. One Missouri county showed it had 153% more voters registered than actual voting-age people living there. Last week, the Justice Department ordered its career attorneys to drop charges against three members of the New Black Panther Party who were caught on video wearing military fatigues with one wielding a police-style nightstick in front of a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 election. These men stood right in front of the door to the poll and used racial taunts and intimidation on anyone not supporting B. Hussein Obama for president. One voter was told, “Get ready to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” After the charges were filed in court, none of the men appeared for their court dates which led to a default judgment against them. However, before proceeding further, the Justice Department attorneys were ordered by Obama appointees to drop the case. Therefore, these three men got away scot-free. The only slap on the wrist was an order against the man holding the nightstick that he was not to display a weapon within 100 feet of a polling place until November 13, 2012. (As I’ve stated before, why in the hell would there be a time-line on that order?!? No one is ever supposed to wield weapons outside of a polling place to intimidate voters.) Congress has also determined that there is no reason to investigation ACORN even though the organization and its employees have been charged with voter registration fraud in 14 states – and that’s just from the 2008 election.

Voter registration fraud, voter intimidation, and vote fraud have all now been condoned by the Obama administration. Not even the Supreme Court seems to be a deterrent to the Obama administration as they continue to flaunt the Constitution and exponentially increase their own power and authority.

Black Panther Party members blocking the Philadelphia poll and intimidating Republican voters and poll judges.

The Obama Justice Department has made a clear statement during the administration’s first few months in office. Voter fraud and intimidation will be allowed to continue as long as it benefits B. Hussein Obama. This week, the Justice Department moved to drop a case against three members of the New Black Panther Party who were videotaped standing in front of a Philadelphia polling place in military uniforms with one member brandishing a police-style nightstick during the Presidential Election. The three men were intimidating anyone perceived to be voting against B. Hussein Obama and taunted potential voters with intimidating threats and racial statements. One voter approaching the poll was told by one of the men, “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.” The actions of the Black Panther members harkens back to before the Civil Rights movement when voters were threatened and scared away from the polls because of their race. Somehow, the Justice Department under Attorney General, Eric Holder, decided against protecting voters from intimidation and threats when the career attorneys working on the case were ordered to stop pursuing the case by Obama appointees. Two of the men were not punished at all and the third, the man wielding the weapon, was merely ordered not to display “a weapon within 100 feet of any open polling location on election day in the city of Philadelphia” until November 15, 2012. (Isn’t it nice to know that the court put a timeline on the prohibition from brandishing weapons at a polling place? One can only assume that after the court deadline, he’s free to resume business as usual.) Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time Democrats under President Obama have refused to guarantee the legitimacy of the American election process. Congressional Democrats decided not to investigate ACORN and the Justice Department dropped a case in Missouri over the state’s failure to remove deceased individuals and voters who had moved from the jurisdiction from their voting rolls. When the case was first brought, 29 jurisdictions in Missouri had more registered voters than actual voting-age people living in the area. One county’s voter rolls were 151% of the county’s 2004 census of the voting-age population.

 Wouldn’t this qualify as improper “politicization” of the Justice Department? Democrats pitched a fit because Bush’s Justice Department tried to combat vote fraud. It’s apparent the Obama administration won’t come under the same criticism anytime soon.

Watch the video of the Black Panther members below and decide whether these actions have any place in a “free and open election.” The Justice Department’s decision is a slap in the face to every American.