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Title: BREAKING: Christopher Coates Will Testify to Voter Intimidation, Defying DOJ
Source: Fox News
URL Source: http://n/a
Published: Sep 23, 2010
Author: reporter
Post Date: 2010-09-23 13:22:33 by Murron
Keywords: None
Views: 29454
Comments: 41

BREAKING!!!

FOX NEWS

Christopher Coates is defying the DOJ, and will testify about voter intimidation based on race.

This concerns the Black Panthers who planted themselves outside voting polls, intimidating voters ...more to come

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#1. To: All (#0)

Bombshell: Defying DOJ Instructions, Christopher Coates Will Testify Friday on New Black Panther Case

Told by the Department of Justice to ignore a subpoena from the Civil Rights Commission, former Voting Section Chief Coates has instead chosen to comply. His testimony Friday morning is likely to be incredibly damaging to DOJ leadership and the Obama administration.

In a dramatic development that could shake the political leadership of the Justice Department, career lawyer Christopher Coates has sent a letter to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights offering to testify Friday on matters related to the controversial New Black Panthers voter-intimidation case

Ten months ago, Coates, the award-winning former chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, was subpoenaed by the Commission to testify about the case. He was subsequently instructed by DOJ officials to ignore the subpoena. Within the past hour, commissioners were informed that Chairman Gerald Reynolds had spoken with Coates and that the chairman would reconvene the Commission’s ongoing hearing on Friday at 9:30 a.m. to hear Coates’s testimony.

The Civil Rights Commission has sought to obtain Coates’ testimony on Justice’s dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case in Philadelphia. In a recent request to Justice, the Commission agreed to limit initial questioning of Coates to accusations made by former career lawyer J. Christian Adams about statements and other actions by Julie Fernandes, an Obama administration political appointee, if DOJ produced Coates.

The DOJ refused.

Adams testified that Fernandes, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division in charge of voting matters, told Voting Section leadership that the Obama administration would not file election-related cases against minority defendants — no matter the alleged violation of law.

Adams also testified that Fernandes said Justice would not enforce the provisions of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). Section 8 requires states to clean up voter registration lists on a regular basis by removing the names of ineligible voters who have died or moved away.

On Election Day 2008, two uniformed members of the New Black Panther Party — one wielding a club — were caught on video as they appeared to harass voters outside a Philadelphia polling place. The Voting Rights Section filed a civil lawsuit that the defendants did not answer, placing them in default.

However, the Justice Department dismissed virtually the entire case despite the objections of career attorneys.

SOURCE

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee

Murron  posted on  2010-09-23   13:27:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Murron (#0)

FOX NEWS BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!

THIS MUST BE REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!

Skip Intro  posted on  2010-09-23   13:34:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Skip Intro (#2)

I know skip, I feel the same, but as long as this is the truth, I'll post it..most of everything else I'm posting is not coming from fawx...&;-)

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee

Murron  posted on  2010-09-23   13:37:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Murron (#3)

At least it's not a car chase.

Skip Intro  posted on  2010-09-23   13:38:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: All (#1)

"On Election Day 2008, two uniformed members of the New Black Panther Party — one wielding a club — were caught on video as they appeared to harass voters outside a Philadelphia polling place.

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee

Murron  posted on  2010-09-23   13:39:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Skip Intro (#4)

At least it's not a car chase.

LOL..they do like those car chases...aha

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee

Murron  posted on  2010-09-23   13:39:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Skip Intro (#2)

FOX NEWS BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!

THIS MUST BE REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmmm....let's see...only Fox News is giving this story the publicity it deserves.

And your problem with that is what Skip?

Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554

Nebuchadnezzar  posted on  2010-09-23   13:47:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#7)

Let's look into Nebby's mind:

Two ni**ers in front of a polling place is a national emergency.

Boy Blunder's FL campaign manager putting a halt to a mandated recount an act of patriotism.

war  posted on  2010-09-23   13:54:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#7)

Hmmmm....let's see...only Fox News is giving this story the publicity it deserves.

Yeah, just like all those car chases they cover.

Skip Intro  posted on  2010-09-23   14:05:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#7)

Hmmmm....let's see...only Fox News is giving this story the publicity it deserves.

hell, that's the only news network people listen to anyway

Capitalist Erica must be a great chef. All the guys in the soup kitchen line all talk about how well he "TOSSES SALAD".

calcon  posted on  2010-09-23   14:15:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: All (#5)

What the New Black Panthers Want: What the New Black Panthers Believe

1. We want freedom. We want the power to practice self-determination, and to determine the destiny of our community and THE BLACK NATION.

2. We want full employment for our people and we demand the dignity to do for ourselves what we have begged the white man to do for us.

3. We want tax exemption and an end to robbery of THE BLACK NATION by the CAPITALIST.

We believe that this wicked racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of reparations. A form of reparations was promised 100 years ago (forty acres and a mule) as restitution for the continued genocide of our people and to in meaningful measure and repair the damage for the AFRICAN HOLOCAUST.

4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings, free health-care (preventive and maintenance).

5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this devilish and decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history/herstory and our role in the present day society.

6. We want all Black Men and Black Women to be exempt from military service.

7. We want an immediate end to POLICE HARRASSMENT, BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black People. We want an end to Black-on-Black violence, snitching, cooperation and collaboration with the oppressor.

We therefore believe that all Black People should unite and form an African United Front and arm ourselves for self-defense.

8. We want freedom for all Black Men and Black Women held in international, military, federal, state, county, city jails and prisons.

We believe that all Black People and people of color should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. Released means released to the lawful authorities of the Black Nation.

9. We want all Black People when brought to trial to be tried in a court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by white law of the Constitution of the United States.

We have been and are being tried by all white juries that have no understanding of the average reasoning person of the Black Community.

10. WE DEMAND AN END TO THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY AS IT IS APPLIED TO BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE IN AMERICA. WE DEMAND FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE BLACK RED AND BROWN NATION!

We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And, as our political objective, we want NATIONAL LIBERATION in a separate state or territory of our own, here or elsewhere, a liberated zone (New Africa or Africa), and a plebiscite to be held throughout the BLACK NATION in which only we will be allowed to participate for the purposes of determining our will and DIVINE destiny as a people. FREE THE LAND! UP YOU MIGHTY NATION! YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT YOU WILL! BLACK POWER!

History has proven that the white man is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No one has been able to get along with the white man. All the people of color have been subjected to the white man's wrath. We believe that his very nature will not allow for true sharing, fairness, equity and justice. Therefore, to the Red Man and Woman, to the Yellow and to the Brown, we say to you....

THE SAME RABID DOG THAT BIT YOU, BIT US TOO! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Excerpts from the website of the New Black Panthers HERE

"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee

Murron  posted on  2010-09-23   14:39:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: calcon (#10)

hell, that's the only news network people listen to anyway

That due to it's excellent coverage on whatever it determines to be the boogeyman of the day.

mininggold  posted on  2010-09-23   14:48:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Murron (#11)

Now post what the KKK wants and what the KKK believes.

Thanks.

war  posted on  2010-09-23   15:16:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Murron (#11)

RACIST COMMENT REMOVED BY STONE

war  posted on  2010-09-23   15:38:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: war (#13)

Now post what the KKK wants and what the KKK believes.

If you think it's relevant, why don't you post it. There's nothing stopping you.

“There is no worse heresy than the fact that the office sanctifies the holder of it.”

Abcdefg  posted on  2010-09-23   20:01:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: war (#14)

Are you going to post this in your grandchild's bedroom?

Well, half of it anyway?

Dude, what is your fucking problem? Are you saying this crap about the KKK or attacking Murron just to be Contrarian?

Lay off the "Asshole" pills, okay?

Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554

Nebuchadnezzar  posted on  2010-09-23   22:50:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#16)

Lay off the "Asshole" pills, okay?

I thought you bought all of them last week.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-09-23   22:54:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Fred Mertz (#17)

I thought you bought all of them last week.

What if I did?

Hey Fred, the Jerk store called and they're all out of you.

Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554

Nebuchadnezzar  posted on  2010-09-23   23:05:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: Abcdefg (#15) (Edited)

Of course it's not relevant. Why would what a few white guys think about 10% of the population matter? The answer is it doesn't. It's as relevant asrthe 10% of the 10% who give a shit what the Panthers "want".

war  posted on  2010-09-23   23:16:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#16)

war  posted on  2010-09-23   23:18:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: war (#20)

Fuck you, dipshit.

Wow, that was a creative come-back. You stay up all night thinking that one up?

You've really become unhinged the last few weeks. Is everything alright with the family?

Honestly, we can talk.

Clinton and Cuomo are the true bandits who lit the fuse to this economic crisis we're now in. All in the name of getting more minorities in houses: http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=12554

Nebuchadnezzar  posted on  2010-09-23   23:21:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: war (#20)

I thought you were his bitch.

LOL

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-09-23   23:21:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#21)

Nope. I gave it the amount of thought your post deserved, dipshit.

war  posted on  2010-09-23   23:22:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: Fred Mertz (#22)

Can't you tell?

I'm in California next week. Maybe we can have a beer...

war  posted on  2010-09-23   23:23:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Nebuchadnezzar (#18)

What if I did?

Read the instructions.

war  posted on  2010-09-23   23:32:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: war, mininggold (#24)

I might be able to make it.

Everything is hanging on tomorrow night at the races.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-09-23   23:32:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: Fred Mertz (#26)

Kewel

war  posted on  2010-09-23   23:34:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: war (#8)

Two ni**ers in front of a polling place is a national emergency.

No,but two niggers in front of dozens of polling places that are wearing black berets and carrying clubs to intimidate people to vote the way they want you to vote IS.

Then again,I guess a well-known Independent such as yourself would have no problem with two honkies wearing Kluxxer robes and carrying clubs hanging around outside dozens of polling places during an election,right?

BTW,you CAN use the word "nigger" if you want. It's just a word and everybody has heard and seen it before.

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2010-09-24   7:18:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Murron (#11)

We want education that teaches us our true history/herstory and our role in the present day society.

REALLY? They want to hear about how the AFRICANS are responsible for slavery,not the white man?

They want to hear how it was a black man that enslaved the first slave in the Colony of Virginia,the very first slave in what was to later become the United States of America?

6. We want all Black Men and Black Women to be exempt from military service.

Most are already exempt,due to having criminal records.

We have been and are being tried by all white juries that have no understanding of the average reasoning person of the Black Community.

Ok,here is an ADMISSION that the mantra of equality is so much BullBarack because ACCORDING TO THEM blacks don't think like whites. Which is the reason we have affirmative action,but a white person can't say this without the blacks having screaming fits. There is no reason to waste my time tearing this nonsense apart. Anybody can do it that isn't black and doesn't have "different reasoning".

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2010-09-24   7:29:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: war (#13)

Now post what the KKK wants and what the KKK believes.

Why? Will you stand up and applaud that like you do what the Black Pussies demand?

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2010-09-24   7:31:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Murron (#0)

This can only happen in large urban centers. If anyone dared to show up out here in the country, they'd have had their ass beaten to a pulp.

Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.

Badeye  posted on  2010-09-24   9:40:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: sneakypete (#28)

It wasn't dozens. It was one and they left when confronted.

war  posted on  2010-09-24   10:58:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: sneakypete (#29)

It seems to me that virtually every Obama speech is designed to belittle America by putting America in "it's place"

You overstate it. It was white men making deals with Africans for slaves. As much as it pains you, no demand from whitey no slaves to America.

war  posted on  2010-09-24   10:59:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: sneakypete (#30) (Edited)

Applauding has nothing to do with it.

Hate is color blind.

Some ounce keeps throwing stones at you what do you do? Smile?

war  posted on  2010-09-24   11:00:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: war (#32)

It wasn't dozens. It was one and they left when confronted.

Oh,BullBarack! The Black Pussies are a nationwide organization,and you want us to believe they only pulled this crap at ONE voting location when they had a homebody running for president? This just happened to be the only one with videotape of the event.

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2010-09-24   13:59:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: sneakypete (#35)

Absent any evidence to the contrary...yes...

Ever check out what ol' dead Billy Bob Rehnquist was doing in 1964 in Arizona?

war  posted on  2010-09-24   14:00:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: war (#33)

You overstate it. It was white men making deals with Africans for slaves. As much as it pains you, no demand from whitey no slaves to America

Ahhhh,so you are saying slavery is the white man's fault because they convinced those weak-minded African Kings to sell whitey their lame,their lazy,and the)ir troublemakers against their will? Not to mention the losers they captured in tribal wars?

"Hit all be de falts ob dat ole debbil,de white mans!" (war.Sept 24th 2010)

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2010-09-24   14:03:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: sneakypete (#37)

It takes two to tango...

war  posted on  2010-09-24   14:03:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: war (#34)

Hate is color blind

Not true,and you know it. There is no shortage of people who hate other people of a different skin tone or color.

The real difference is most humans of all colors manage to keep their hatred under control and not try to cause physical harm to others.

Unfortunately,it's the ones that don't that get all the press.

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2010-09-24   14:05:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: war (#36)

Absent any evidence to the contrary...yes...

No surprise that you choose to ignore the reports of it happening in other places when the report of the event in Pa was made public.

Ever check out what ol' dead Billy Bob Rehnquist was doing in 1964 in Arizona?

No.I didn't even know he existed in 1964. Besides,that was my first year in the army and I had more important things to do than worry about obscure politicians.

"I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago." (Sarah Palin,Dec 2009) ************************************ DID Palin say or write these things or not? (Me) I don't know or F ing care. (Mad Dog posted on 2009-12-26 16:36:33 ET,post # 105 http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=5510&Disp=114#C114)

sneakypete  posted on  2010-09-24   14:08:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: war (#33)

It was white men making deals with Africans for slaves.

Not zactly: "In 1807 Britain outlawed slavery. In 1820 the king of the African kingdom of Ashanti inquired why the Christians did not want to trade slaves with him anymore, since they worshipped the same god as the Muslims and the Muslims were continuing the trade like before.

The civil rights movement of the 1960's have left many people with the belief that the slave trade was exclusively a European/USA phenomenon and only evil white people were to blame for it. This is a simplicistic scenario that hardly reflects the facts. Thousands of records of transactions are available on a CDROM prepared by Harvard University and several comprehensive books have been published recently on the origins of modern slavery (namely, Hugh Thomas' The Slave Trade and Robin Blackburn's The Making Of New World Slavery) that shed new light on centuries of slave trading. What these records show is that the modern slave trade flourished in the early middle ages, as early as 869, especially between Muslim traders and western African kingdoms. For moralists, the most important aspect of that trade should be that Muslims were selling goods to the African kingdoms and the African kingdoms were paying with their own people. In most instances, no violence was necessary to obtain those slaves. Contrary to legends and novels and Hollywood movies, the white traders did not need to savagely kill entire tribes in order to exact their tribute in slaves. All they needed to do is bring goods that appealed to the kings of those tribes. The kings would gladly sell their own kins. This explains why slavery became "black". Ancient slavery, e.g. under the Roman empire, would not discriminate: slaves were both white and black (so were Emperors and Popes). In the middle ages, all European countries outlawed slavery (of course, they retained countless "civilized" ways to enslave their citizens, but that's another story), whereas the African kingdoms happily continued in their trade. Therefore, only colored people could be slaves, and that is how the stereotype for African-American slavery was born. It was not based on an ancestral hatred of blacks by whites, but simply on the fact that blacks were the only ones selling slaves, and they were selling their own kins.

I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.-Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson  posted on  2010-09-24   14:09:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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