Back on election day 2008,  the New Black Panthers stormed a Philadelphia polling place armed  with nightsticks, and spent election day intimidating voters.

Career lawyers in the justice department, armed with witnesses and video, charged the men with violation of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.  The severity of the intimidation was verified by witnesses including  prominent 1960s civil rights activist, and former civil rights lawyer Barton Bull, who described the acts of the Panthers as “the most blatant form of voter intimidation” that he had seen, “even during the voting rights crisis in Mississippi a half-century ago.”

According to Bull: One of them 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!”

The complaint filed by the Justice department was never answered by the Black Panthers and was headed for a default judgment in May 2009 when suddenly Obama-appointed justice department brass demanded that the case be dropped.

Inquiries into the dismissal of the case have largely been ignored.  Some believe the lack of response is an attempt to “conceal more widespread voter intimidation or fraud which inured to the benefit of the Obama campaign”.

The lawyers who pursued the case have been drummed out of the Justice department and now one, J Christian Adams is speaking out.

Based on my firsthand experiences, I believe the dismissal of the Black Panther case was motivated by a lawless hostility toward equal enforcement of the law. Others still within the department share my assessment. The department abetted wrongdoers and abandoned law-abiding citizens victimized by the New Black Panthers. The dismissal raises serious questions about the department’s enforcement neutrality in upcoming midterm elections and the subsequent 2012 presidential election.

Clearly the Obama/Holder appointed lawyers have a decidedly different agenda than the career lawyers:

Most corrupt of all, the lawyers who ordered the dismissal – Loretta King, the Obama-appointed acting head of the Civil Rights Division, and Steve Rosenbaum – did not even read the internal Justice Department memorandums supporting the case and investigation. Just as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. admitted that he did not read the Arizona immigration law before he condemned it, Mr. Rosenbaum admitted that he had not bothered to read the most important department documents detailing the investigative facts and applicable law in the New Black Panther case. Christopher Coates, the former Voting Section chief, was so outraged at this dereliction of responsibility that he actually threw the memos at Mr. Rosenbaum in the meeting where they were discussing the dismissal of the case. The department subsequently removed all of Mr. Coates’ responsibilities and sent him to South Carolina.

More damning is Adams conclusion that the Holder Justice Department is simply racist:

Most disturbing, the dismissal is part of a creeping lawlessness infusing our government institutions. Citizens would be shocked to learn about the open and pervasive hostility within the Justice Department to bringing civil rights cases against nonwhite defendants on behalf of white victims. Equal enforcement of justice is not a priority of this administration. Open contempt is voiced for these types of cases.

This “post racial” administration may turn out to be the most racist administration in history.