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post #1 of 4
8/22/09 at 2:34pm
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I remember seeing the video of the New Black Panthers, on Election Day 2208, brandishing night sticks and intimidating voters trying to get into the polls to vote. I remember it well. Well, Team Obama has given them a free pass.


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...mEditorialPage


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President Obama's Justice Department continues to stonewall inquiries about why it dropped a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.

The episode—which Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village Voice, calls "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen"—began on Election Day 2008. Mr. Bull and others witnessed two Black Panthers in paramilitary garb at a polling place near downtown Philadelphia. (Some of this behavior is on YouTube.)

One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters and both made racial threats. Mr. Bull says he heard one yell "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!"
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post #2 of 4
8/22/09 at 2:45pm
Frankly, I see Panthers with night sticks and Town Hall protesters with rifles as two different boats on the same lake.
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post #3 of 4
8/22/09 at 3:37pm
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Two wrongs DO make a right then?

I thought the guy at the Town Hall was within his legal rights to carry a gun in plain sight under the law of the state it took place in? Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't paid to much attention to it as I thought it was kind of stupid of him myself.
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post #4 of 4
8/22/09 at 9:21pm
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Originally Posted by ckblv View Post
Two wrongs DO make a right then?

I thought the guy at the Town Hall was within his legal rights to carry a gun in plain sight under the law of the state it took place in? Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't paid to much attention to it as I thought it was kind of stupid of him myself.
Actually, both were stupid, but neither were wrong. Nightsticks, just like guns, are "arms". So are knives, swords, lances, halberds, catapults, Napoleon cannons and large knitting needles. Both could present the impression of intimidation, in fact, unarmed guys the size of "Haystack Calhoun" standing outside of political locations could present the impression of intimidation. But, neither appear to have created any actual intimidation, and both responded to being challenged on their right to keep and bear arms. Same same, to me. Legal but unnecessary.
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