Will the Black Panthers try to intimidate people at the polls again this election?
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ProudProgressive 2012/06/18 21:10:29I think...
+10Considering that the New Black Panthers didn't intimidate anyone in 2008 and the entire non-scandal scandal was manufactured by the Right Wing media, there's no likelihood that they would try to intimidate anyone this time around. Not to say that the Right Wing media won't try to find some other non-scandal to divert people's attention fromt he millions of legal voters they are trying to disenfranchise, but hopefully the legitimate media won't be nearly as gullible this time around. After all, there was so little to the 2008 case that the Bush Administration dropped all the criminal charges eleven days before President Obama even took office.
but I do expect they will once again try the intimidation ..
Hopefully .. they will be prosecuted this time ..
and I know many are far more aware .. and won't let thugs intimidate them either ..
I've been told that nothing was true except the pig. I thought you might know.
Wolfman posted a picture of them at a Philadelphia Polling Place.
Good job wolfman.
And if they wanted to intimidate anyone, why would they be in a district that was largely minorities and heavily democratic? Who were they going to intimidate, people who were already supporting President Obama?
http://blog.heritage.org/2010...
For anyone who bothers to actually look at the record, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights received direct evidence on that very issue. Those critics also miss the point that it is a crime to attempt to intimidate voters and anyone assisting voters, which would include poll watchers, and no one watching the videotape could come to any conclusion other than the New Black Panthers were trying to intimidate people at that poll in Philadelphia.
The original complaint read that the NBPP "made statements and posted notice that over 300 members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense would be deployed at polling locations during voting on November 4, 2008, throughout the United States."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You see a black person on a street and you assume that he must be doing something illegal. That's called naked racism. The really sad part is that you see a black person in the White House and you make the same blind assumptions.
Jesse Jackson said he was intimidated by young black people on the street.
Obie is not black, he's a mulatto. You think people don't like Obie because he's black. That makes you a racist, not me.
I am quite thankful for the brave reporter who took the pictures and recorded the threats.
The reporter also made video which I'll attempt to load for you. I think that this one is it.