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Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« on: September 01, 2009, 04:36:08 PM »

Eric Holder-Chief Racist at DOJ, if he doesn't know racism, no one does.
"WASHINGTON — Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census.
As part of this shift, the Obama administration is planning a major revival of high-impact civil rights enforcement against policies, in areas ranging from housing to hiring, where statistics show that minorities fare disproportionately poorly. President George W. Bush’s appointees had discouraged such tactics, preferring to focus on individual cases in which there is evidence of intentional discrimination.
To bolster a unit that has been battered by heavy turnover and a scandal over politically tinged hiring under the Bush administration, the Obama White House has also proposed a hiring spree that would swell the ranks of several hundred civil rights lawyers with more than 50 additional lawyers, a significant increase for a relatively small but powerful division of the government.

The division is “getting back to doing what it has traditionally done,” Mr. Holder said in an interview. “But it’s really only a start. I think the wounds that were inflicted on this division were deep, and it will take some time for them to fully heal.”  NYSlimes

They think there were political appointees under Bush?  They ain't seen nothin' yet.

Here's an idea, how about reopening the investigation into voting rights violations in Philly? 

Is there any doubt that the 2010 census is going to be as racially/politically biased as any government program has ever been?

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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2009, 04:44:00 PM »
Which is why I don't plan on filling out the 2010 census.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2009, 05:58:31 PM »
Which is why I don't plan on filling out the 2010 census.

It doesn't really matter, someone from ACORN will fill it out in your name anyway.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2009, 06:14:39 PM »
Let's say, for a minute, that the ACORN shenanagans do take place, but both the Senate and House turn Republican.  Even if Senate Republicans picked up every Dem seat and lost none of their own, they'd still not be able to overcome a Obamessiah veto.  The House could shift radically away from Obama.  Wouldn't they be able to deny the DOJ's budget that would cover this sort of fecal matter being proposed by Holder?
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2009, 06:19:26 PM »
No, people--2010 is going to be one of the most important midterm elections in our lives, if not the very history of this nation.  Imagine if there was a GOP uprising on par with 1994, even at state levels.  Not only would Barruh be hamstrung, but the swinging of a few states from Dem to GOP majorities would ensure even larger future GOP gains in 2012 and beyond.

Consider: Blue states like Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey are hemmoraging population, even as the 'Rats hike taxes higher and higher still on a populace which has/is giving up and leaving for states like Florida, Texas, and Arizona.  It's a double-whammy for the 'Rat agenda, but only if we get CONSERVATIVES out in record numbers and give a resounding rejection to the agenda the 'Rats have tried to shove up our asses for the last seven months.  So what if New York stays liberal?  They're almost certainly going to lose Congressional seats, as are several other blue states.  But the state elections are where we make our bones.  Sure, Texas may gain 3-4 seats, but unless the legislature there is in GOP hands, redistricting won't mean jack.  Now apply that scenario to the rest of the country, and you start to get an idea of how important the next 14 months really are.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2009, 08:00:37 PM »
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Consider: Blue states like Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey

They're ending up in North Carolina, destroying that state. :censored:
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2009, 08:21:27 PM »
A lot of southern states had/have solid Democrat histories as well.  Only recently have they gone solidly Republican (like Texas).
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2009, 08:44:36 PM »

Eric Holder-Chief Racist at DOJ, if he doesn't know racism, no one does.
"WASHINGTON — Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census.
As part of this shift, the Obama administration is planning a major revival of high-impact civil rights enforcement against policies, in areas ranging from housing to hiring, where statistics show that minorities fare disproportionately poorly. President George W. Bush’s appointees had discouraged such tactics, preferring to focus on individual cases in which there is evidence of intentional discrimination.
To bolster a unit that has been battered by heavy turnover and a scandal over politically tinged hiring under the Bush administration, the Obama White House has also proposed a hiring spree that would swell the ranks of several hundred civil rights lawyers with more than 50 additional lawyers, a significant increase for a relatively small but powerful division of the government.

The division is “getting back to doing what it has traditionally done,” Mr. Holder said in an interview. “But it’s really only a start. I think the wounds that were inflicted on this division were deep, and it will take some time for them to fully heal.”  NYSlimes

They think there were political appointees under Bush?  They ain't seen nothin' yet.

Here's an idea, how about reopening the investigation into voting rights violations in Philly? 

Is there any doubt that the 2010 census is going to be as racially/politically biased as any government program has ever been?

Hi,

If any of you watched Beck tonight you came away understanding these folks are hell-bent on aparthaid, taking wealth from white folks and getting even under the name of "social justice".  It is going to take some gloves off push back rather than *****footing around the racial issue.  I think a lot of the public is to the "enough is enough" phase and is ready for the confrontation.  Following is an email I got today which is politically incorrect but my guess is it reflects the thinking of a whole lot of the working class in our cournty.

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As you will recall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Harvard  professor who got
arrested by Cambridge Police a week or so ago.

Fred Reed was a police reporter for one of the large Washington newspapers.
He now writes a column which  can be googled  ~ "Fred on Everything."

Fred published a weekly online column in which he got to say the things his
editors would never, ever have let him write in the paper.  His stuff is 
iconoclastic and various  articles have probably offended everyone..
regardless of political  orientation.  So, with the warning that "This is
definitely not politically  correct," here comes Fred.....

The following is an essay regarding the failings of a system and a culture.

Please note that he elegantly describes the mood of many Americans and he
does so without  prejudice.


Slavery Reparations  ..........by Fred Reed!

On the Web I find that Henry  Louis Gates Jr., the chairman of Afro-American
Studies at Harvard, is demanding that whites pay reparations to blacks.  It's
because of slavery, see. He is  joined in this endeavor by a gaggle of other
professional blacks. I guess  he'll send me a bill, huh?

I feel like saying, "Let me get  this straight, Hank.  I'm slow.  Be patient.

You want free money because of  slavery, right?  I don't blame you." I'd like
free money too. Tell you what.  I believe in justice.  I'll give you a million
dollars for every slave I own,  and another million for every year you were a
slave.  Fair enough?  But tell  me, how many slaves do you suppose I have?
In round numbers,  I mean...say to the nearest dozen.  And how long were you
a slave?

Oh. In other words, I owe you reparations for something that I didn't do and
didn't happen to you. That  makes sense.  Like lug nuts on a birthday cake.

Personally, I think you owe me reparations for things you didn't do and
never happened to me.  I've never been coated in Dutch chocolate and
thrown from the Eiffel Tower.  I'll  bet you've never done it to anyone.  I want
reparations.  Kind of silly, isn't  it?

But if we're going to talk about reparations, that's a street that runs in
two directions.  You want money from me for what some other whites did
to some other blacks in another  century?

How about you guys paying whites reparations for current expenses caused
by blacks?  Not long ago blacks burned down half of Los Angeles, a city in
my country.  Cities are expensive, Hank.  Build one sometime and you'll see
what I mean.  Whites had to pay taxes to repair Los Angeles for you.  You can
send me a check.

Now, yes, I know you burned LA  because you didn't like the verdict in the
trial of those police officers.  Well, I didn't like the verdict in the Simpson trial.





But I didn't burn my house and loot Korean grocers, or burn down a city.

Over the years blacks have  burned a lot of American cities: Newark, 
Detroit, Watts, on and on.  Now add in the fantastic cost over the years of 
welfare in all its forms, the cost of all of those police calls people had to make,
for cells and jails and security systems in department stores.

I can't live in the capital city of my own country because of crime
committed by blacks. Toss in  the cultural cost of lowering standards in
everything for the benefit of blacks.  See what I mean?

Now, I'd view things differently if you said to me, "Fred, blacks can't get
anywhere in a modern country without education.  We know that.  We need
better schools, smarter teachers, harder courses, books with smaller pictures
and bigger words.  Can you help  us?"

I'd say, "Hallelujah! Hoo-ahh!  Not just yes, but hell yes.  Let's sell an
aircraft carrier and get these folks some real schools and get them into the
economic main-stream.'  I'd say It partly because it would be the right thing
to do, and partly because I'd like to add you guys to the tax base.

The current custodial state is expensive.  I'd just love for blacks to study
and learn to compete and stop burning places.  But is it going to happen?   
You may not believe it, but I, and  most whites, don't like seeing blacks as
miserable and screwed up as they are.

I spend a fair amount of time in the projects.  Those places are ugly.  It's
no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semi-literate dope dealers 
who barely speak English.  It just plain ain't right.  But, Hank, what am I
supposed to do about it?  I can't do your children's homework.  At some 
point, people have to do things for  themselves, or they don't get done.




Maybe it's time.

I'll tell you what I see out in the world, Hank... I think blacks are too
accustomed to getting anything  they want by just demanding it.  True, it
has worked for over half a century.  Get a few hundred people in the street,
implicitly threaten to loot and  burn, holler about slavery, and sadly
the Great White Cash Spigot turns on.

Thing is, whites don't much buy it any longer.  Most recognize that what once
was a civil-rights movement has become a shakedown game.  Few people
still feel responsible for the failings and inadequacies of blacks.  Political
correctness keeps the lid on --  but everyone knows the score..  Which



scares me, Hank.

On one hand, blacks hate whites and incline toward looting and burning.
(The whites you hate are the ones who marched in the civil-rights movement.
Ever think about  that?)

On the other hand, whites quietly grow wearier and wearier of it.  Not good,
Hank.

On the third hand (allow me three hands, for rhetorical convenience), blacks 
keep demanding things.  As I  write, you demand reparations for slavery.
Blacks in Oklahoma (I think it  was) want money for some ancient race riot.

Other blacks reject the Declaration of Independence.  Blacks in New York
hint broadly at burning and looting over a trial, yet more demand the
elimination of the Confederate flag, and the federal equal opportunity
apparatus, which means blacks want to sue Silicon Valley for not hiring
nonexistent black engineers.  That's a lot of demanding for one month,
Hank.

What happens if whites ever say, "No"?

Now, how about you?  You've got a cushy job up there at Harvard, and you
can hoot and holler about what swine and bandits whites are.  I guess it's
lots of fun, and you get a salary for it to boot.  But don't you think you might
do blacks more good if you told them to complain less and study more?

For example, if you want blacks to work in Silicon Gulch, the best approach
might be to find some really smart black guys, and get them to study digital
design ~ not Black Studies (as  you teach).  That's how everybody else does 
it.  It works.  Then blacks wouldn't feel left out, and racial tensions would
decline.  Sound like a plan?

Just out of curiosity, how many hours a week do professors of Afro-American
Studies spend in the projects,  encouraging poor black kids to study real-
life sho-nuf subjects?
~~~

Pass this one across America!!!



 



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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2009, 09:33:37 PM »
It doesn't really matter, someone from ACORN will fill it out in your name anyway.

That may be the case, but I personally won't participate in such a farce as the 2010 census will be.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2009, 09:38:41 PM »
Awesome post 5412.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2009, 10:29:58 PM »
No, people--2010 is going to be one of the most important midterm elections in our lives, if not the very history of this nation.  Imagine if there was a GOP uprising on par with 1994, even at state levels.  Not only would Barruh be hamstrung, but the swinging of a few states from Dem to GOP majorities would ensure even larger future GOP gains in 2012 and beyond.

For me to care about another "GOP uprising" will depend largely upon which GOP rises up.  As far as I'm concerned, every incumbent needs to be on the streets come January 2011.  Now, if the GOP replaces those hand-wringing ninnies with brass-balled conservatives looking for a fight to "Defend the Constitution from all enemies, Kenyan and domestic", I'll get behind 'em and push.  Hard.  If however the GOP backs a whole freshmen class of shriveled, limp-dick pansies to replace the current crop of borderline traitors we have in office, the Party will continue to have my undying contempt, and no support from me whatsoever.

I'm sorry to all of you who think I'm "throwing my vote away"; having an (R) behind a candidates name just isn't enough.  My forefathers left me a heiritage of liberty, and I'll be damned and branded as a traitor by a bunch of treasonous, limp-dick republican politicians before I will hand down to my son and his children anything less than what I inheirited.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2009, 10:40:23 PM »
For me to care about another "GOP uprising" will depend largely upon which GOP rises up.  As far as I'm concerned, every incumbent needs to be on the streets come January 2011.  Now, if the GOP replaces those hand-wringing ninnies with brass-balled conservatives looking for a fight to "Defend the Constitution from all enemies, Kenyan and domestic", I'll get behind 'em and push.  Hard.  If however the GOP backs a whole freshmen class of shriveled, limp-dick pansies to replace the current crop of borderline traitors we have in office, the Party will continue to have my undying contempt, and no support from me whatsoever.

I'm sorry to all of you who think I'm "throwing my vote away"; having an (R) behind a candidates name just isn't enough.  My forefathers left me a heiritage of liberty, and I'll be damned and branded as a traitor by a bunch of treasonous, limp-dick republican politicians before I will hand down to my son and his children anything less than what I inheirited.

Amen brother.  I had more than one fight with folks that said I'd be throwing away my vote if I voted for an independant.

**** em.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2009, 12:02:13 AM »
Amen brother.  I had more than one fight with folks that said I'd be throwing away my vote if I voted for an independant.

**** em.

I had worked in Arizona politics for nigh on 6 years with the GOP.  I'd seen firsthand what a useless ****nuts of a politician McLame was, and tried to warn folks early in the election run up.  I was shouted down as someone bad-mouthing an American Hero, so I shut up.  When Palin was announced for the veep slot, I tried to have hope that with her on the ticket to stiffen McLame's linguini spine, things might not be so bad.  Unfortunately, McLame had so surrounded himself with limp-dicks, yes men and back-room bastards, the Lord Ø team didn't have to lay a glove on her; McLame's own people were busily muzzling, stifling and trivializing her for them.

 Against all hope and better judgement, when my ballot came in the mail, I filled in the arrow for Juan McLame anyway, hoping that they'd win, and the bastard would have the coronary infarction from hell in the victory party, leaving Palin to do the job I knew McLame was incapable of doing himself. 

That was throwing away my vote, and I'll never do it again.  If the Republicans want my vote for their candidate in the future, they'd better make sure that they're running a candidate I can support.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2009, 07:27:08 AM »
"WASHINGTON — Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights.

Remember ladies and gentlemen that Eric Holder is the same moron that dismissed the Federal prosecution of two Black Panther Party thugs that stood outside a polling place on Election Day swinging nightsticks.



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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #14 on: September 02, 2009, 09:49:06 AM »
For me to care about another "GOP uprising" will depend largely upon which GOP rises up.  As far as I'm concerned, every incumbent needs to be on the streets come January 2011.  Now, if the GOP replaces those hand-wringing ninnies with brass-balled conservatives looking for a fight to "Defend the Constitution from all enemies, Kenyan and domestic", I'll get behind 'em and push.  Hard.  If however the GOP backs a whole freshmen class of shriveled, limp-dick pansies to replace the current crop of borderline traitors we have in office, the Party will continue to have my undying contempt, and no support from me whatsoever.

I'm sorry to all of you who think I'm "throwing my vote away"; having an (R) behind a candidates name just isn't enough.  My forefathers left me a heiritage of liberty, and I'll be damned and branded as a traitor by a bunch of treasonous, limp-dick republican politicians before I will hand down to my son and his children anything less than what I inheirited.

There really are a few good folks serving, unfortunately only one or two in senior positions and the voices of the rest are drowned out in the sea of typical GOP-by-convenience officeholders.  Due to the nature of the game, there is no chance that the GOP will fail to back any incumbent who has even a chance of re-election, no matter how RINO he or she may be.

And as for the basic point of the OP:  Oh goody, more legal friction in transactions and employment, just what the business environment ****ing needs right now.
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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
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And as for the basic point of the OP:  Oh goody, more legal friction in transactions and employment, just what the business environment ****ing needs right now.

Yeah, just what we need, having the government stepping in to blackmail businesses like Jesse and Al have been doing for years.

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Re: Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2009, 07:27:47 AM »
They have to keep the Civil Rights issue, and race in general going. If they don't, people will actually be looking at the competence, or lack of, this Administration.