Discussing Fox-hyped Black Panthers case, Severin rants about Obama being "demonstrably a racist"
July 02, 2010 2:57 pm ET
From the June 30 edition of WTKK's The Jay Severin Show:
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I have had it with the racism projection and accusations. The real racists reside on talk/hate radio, teabaggers, and it is well documented everyday. The excuses of being taken out of context, or it was all a joke do not fly with me.
Methinks Severin is the one with he race problem.
(Although I suspect your "demonstration" will just reveal your OWN...)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
Oh, and they weren't Black Panthers. The Black Panther organization has been defunct for almost 40 years. They claimed to be members of The New Black Panther Party, completely unrelated.
Here is what the 2 Black men are guilty of:
1-bad judgement to bring a nightstick. This might be an actual legal offense, but I would leave it to the local authorities to determine . . . after all, AKs at a Presidential visit is OK.
2- being scary, especially to white racists. Fortunately for them, being 'Scary While Black' is no longer illegal or a federal offense.
Seasix 'evidence' of voter intimmidation falls a little short of federal election fraud. Now, if these guys worked for ACORN we would see conservative heads exploding, which, I have to admit, would be fun in a 'Scanners' sort of way.
The prosecutors in the Bush DOJ flubbed the case, and the Obama DOJ dropped the case. Ex-Senator Stevens was caught on audiotape discussing CYA efforts with Bill Allen (VECO) to avoid prosecution. Allen renovated one of Stevens' houses free of charge, and Stevens didn't report it on his financial disclosure forms.
This is a clear example of the Obama DOJ dropping a case against a white man who would most likely have been found guilty if the case had moved forward, so if you want to buy Fuchs Noose's bull about the president being a racist, why didn't he continue to pursue the Stevens case?
I know. I know. Your only sources for news are rw operations.
That's how it works in most organizations. Eric Holder ordered the
end of this investigation. Like the AZ law, he hadn't read the briefs. The lead attorney had the evidence in hand and a won case and it was dropped. The Dems would be upset if Minutemen stood in front of the polls in Hispanic polling areas. Why are people here so blind? The NBP's and anyone else barring the say to a polling place holding a weapon should be put in jail, irrespective of color, language, nationality, gender, religion or favorite ice cream.
Beck fan.
There was no evidence whatsoever of intimidation. You had two black men standing outside a polling place. One stupid one, had a nightstick in his hand. They were removed. No prosecutor in his right mind would prosecute a case like this. He will LOSE. There is NO evidence of voter intimidation.
Oh, and these guys were NOT members of the "Black Panthers." That organization has been defunct for almost 40 years. These people called themselves members of "The New Black Panthers," but, if I'm not mistaken, even that group said they didn't know anything about these two men.
I think these men standing in front of the polling place might have shown better judgment in the way they presented themselves. If I saw people dressed like that (people of any color) standing in front of my polling place, I'd probably be a little wary and wonder what was going on. These men are definitely guilty of making a very poor public relations decision regarding their organization. I could see getting some kind of citation issued for the guy holding the nightstick, but as long as you can't prove they actively took part in preventing people from voting, or harrased people as they approached the polling place, you can't really make a "federal case" of this (pun intended).
No prosecutor in his/her right mind would try to prosecute this case. It would be a waste of taxpayer dollars and would, most likely, end in a not guilty verdict. Just no evidence of any wrongdoing at all, except the nightstick.
that he came to the polling place and was scared away by the threatening appearance of three militants at least one of them armed?
We don't allow that in the South anymore and it shouldn't go on anywhere else. These guys should have been hauled off to jail immediately, tried convicted, fined $1000 and let of of jail the next day. Now it is a political nightmare that will grow over time as the political winds change. And Eric Holder can be handed the direct responsibility for making this story into a scandal that is likely to bring someone down.
Let's keep your fantasies out of this, shall we? No one's getting "brought down" over this, because it's bullsh!t. Skip to whatever your next fantasy was (assassination, I'm assuming.)
Seriously, dude, you really need to start understanding that these folks on Fox and hate talk radio MANIPULATE people like you. They aren't presenting conservative values or beliefs. They are in it solely for the money. That's all, and they LAUGH at the schmucks who believe them.
EGB...you're absolutely right, there is no way on God's green earth 2 black men can get away with standing around doing absolutely nothing in any town down south USA while voting. No that's what you good old southern conservative whites do!!!
that he came to the polling place and was scared away by the threatening appearance of three militants at least one of them armed? - egb
Well, if it is so easy then I am sure you have the list of witnesses and evidence they were barred from the building, right? I mean you cannot be so stupid as to make this claim with no evidence to support it, can you? Are you actually this ignorant of our justice system?