Amused Cynic

Well, you end up with a “Ministry of the Interior,” and one of the first things to go is “free and fair” elections. Hello, Himmler.

If it’s OK for Black Panthers to intimidate white voters in Philadelphia, and OK for convicted black felons to intimidate white voters in Noxubee County, Mississippi, maybe that’s why Obamalinsky and congressional Democrat leaders don’t seem too worried about the off-year election coming up in November. If they can create an electoral victory for Al Franken in Minnesota, perhaps they can do it anywhere. Remember what the Black Panthers told the voters in Philly….”You about to be ruled by da black man, cracker.”

This piece on the politicization of the Department of Justice under Eric Holder and Obamalinsky is truly chilling….they are turning the Civil Rights Division into their own private Gestapo. It’s time to get really, really angry, people.

Washington today is infested with advocacy groups run by radicals who view the law — particularly federal civil-rights statutes like the Voting Rights Act — as a weapon to be used to further ideological goals, cement political control, and demonize political opponents. By contrast, fair-minded liberals and conservatives — at least those with whom I worked in the Civil Rights Division during the Bush administration — saw their duty as one of enforcing the law in a neutral manner within the narrow and objective strictures of federal statutes and case law. They did not assume the federal government had a monopoly on civil-rights virtue. They insisted that career attorneys recognize the proper role of the judiciary in what they asked courts to do. They recognized the need for restraint in certain investigatory activity lest the threat of federal power produce results that the law would not command.

Despite this conscious, principled adherence to “blind justice” and the constitutional role of the judiciary, some in the Bush Department of Justice found themselves accused of “politicization” when they tried to hire lawyers who would respect and carry out these principles. The radical Left simply could not tolerate a system in which the liberal ideologues who already predominated the career ranks in the CRD were not replicated in all hiring decisions.
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Over the past year, all hiring within the CRD [Civil Rights Division] has been done on a purely partisan, ideological basis. Doubtless that will continue to happen over the next three years.

The new leadership has trumpeted the fact that hiring has been returned to “career attorneys.” But the unspoken and undeniable fact is that every single lawyer on the new hiring panel is a staunch, results-oriented ideologue. These ultra-Leftists will seek to replicate themselves, just as they did prior to the arrival of the Bush administration. They may couch their hiring standards in neutral terms, like “demonstrated commitment to civil rights,” but the upshot is that conservatives (or even fair-minded Democrats who believe in objective legal standards) need not apply. And the handful of fair and objective lawyers who remain will be encouraged (by all sorts of coercive means) to move on.

Meanwhile, the CRD can be expected to use its enforcement power to benefit Democrats and their political allies to the greatest extent possible. Its attorneys will push their ideological goals with the force of federal law.

I suspect that neither the mainstream media nor the DOJ inspector general will demonstrate any interest in addressing the blatant politicization pervading the CRD, other than to praise it as “reinvigorating.” And if Holder is correct that the CRD is the “conscience of the Justice Department,” God help us all.

UPDATE: This just seemed like it belonged here.

UPDATE: via Michelle Malkin