Politics over safety... with liberty and justice for some...

     The U.S. Department of Justice recently dropped a case against two members of the Black Panthers who stood menacingly outside the doors to a Philadelphia polling place during the 2008 election, dressed in full para-military garb, one of them brandishing a metal police baton. It was an open and shut case of voter intimidation. But for some strange reason, DOJ dropped the case. 
     DOJ official J. Christian Adams resigned over this. See article here.
     Adams wrote that the dismissal of the case "was motivated by a lawless hostility toward equal enforcement of the law." As for the re-review, "the lawyers who ordered the dismissal ... did not even read the internal Justice Department memorandums supporting the case and investigation.
     "What's "most disturbing," Adams wrote, is "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. 
     "Some of my coworkers," Adams continued, "argued that the law should not be used against black wrongdoers because of the long history of slavery and segregation. ... Incredibly, after the case was dismissed, instructions were given that no more cases against racial minorities like the Black Panther case would be brought by the [Justice Department's] Voting Section." Read more here.
      Maybe voter intimidation is okay for some and not for others. Two American justice systems? Hmm... Isn't that what we have been striving to move away from these past 50 years? Maybe it's payback time.
     One of the men is on videotape ranting to a crowd about hating whites... "I hate all white people... Every iota of those crackers... You need to kill those crackers... and kill their cracker babies."
     Pay no attention, folks. Move along. Nothing to see here. Case dismissed.
     Put that story up against the struggle of the law enforcement officers in the border towns of Arizona. This administration claims that the police are the racists. There will be no injustice on our watch. At least not for some. The police are acting stupidly. File suit.
     Many illegal intruders in Arizona are committing violent crimes in those local communities. To say it is a safety concern to the law-abiding citizens is a no-brainer. If the feds won't protect the citizenry, the DOJ should not be impeding Arizona's efforts to defend them. 
     Did you know that there is not a mention of racism in the DOJ's lawsuit against Arizona? I thought the Arizona law was discriminatory. Unjust. Draconian. But that's not the basis of the suit. No. That was just to whip up the masses.
     The federal government is arguing that it is their job to enforce the immigration laws, not Arizona's. 
     If only the feds would do their jobs. Problem solved. But they don't now, do they?
     One could wonder, why? Maybe it has something to do with votes. They are looking to secure the black vote, and the hispanic vote. With maybe a little payback thrown in. So, I guess for now, it's politics over safety... with liberty and justice for some.