Yeah no way any white guys with a weapon could get away with that crap,…wait!
he was tapping out VOTE OBAMA OR IT"S YOUR ASS for all the ex navy voters coming to that spot.
First thing I thought was these guys were trying to cop a bit of glory earned by the original Panthers before the organization totally went off the rails, back when they stood for defending black voters from racially based intimidation. Of course, that was before the FBI came in and fixed all that. Saw it on TV.
(I think you are much too easily shocked.)
And thanks to The Dope and Dirk Dastardly in particular for smashing this bullshit story, and stopping certain posters from spreading ignorance.
No i would not. They’re not threatening anyone or telling anyone who to vote for, and neither did this guy. Just because white conservatives piss down their legs at the sight of a black man with a stick doesn’t mean there’s any voter intimidation going on. There was no voter intimidation in this case. It’s just the latest, manufactured, Fox News, race baiting non-scandal.
There was no attempt to intimidate. No threats were made, and no one was told who to vote for.
Black. White. may I suggest exploring a few shades of gray?
It was a stick, and there is no evidence they tried to intimidate anybody know. Nothing on the videotape constitutes voter intimidation. Hate speech, in itself, is not intimidation. Voter intimidation requires some attempt to coerce or discourage voters. No such attempt was made.
I would suggest that to Fox News first.
“Outsiders” or not, there is a long history of black voters being harrassed an intimidated at the plls in this country. There is zero history of black people doing it to white people. I don’t have a problem with the Panthers posting people to watch the polls and be a presence in case some teabaggers types get out of hand.
My reading of this debate is that cosmosdan et al. aren’t saying that it wasn’t intimidation/attempted intimidation, but merely that the evidence wasn’t strong enough to get a conviction, i.e. it wasn’t prosecutable intimidation. There’s a clear difference between these positions, and while I am not a lefty, I suspect that the latter is indeed correct.
ETA: …which is presumably why the Bush justice department chose not to prosecute it in a criminal court…
As Bull suggest, hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voters, were coming to that one polling station to be aided by two enforcers in fraudulent voting (for someone he just happened to think is fraud, by the way). And the DOJ is involved in a nefarious plan, no an administrative mandate, to register millions more fraudulent voters before the next presidential election, to be enabled to vote by one guy who will be sure to be given back his baton by then. And by whom will all of those fraudulent voters be registered. Why, by Bull’s implication, ACORN, of course.
Oh, wait.
thank you. I don’t see any strong evidence of voter intimidation and evidently there wasn’t enough to prosecute criminal charges.
Maybe that was their intent and maybe not, it isn’t a slam dunk for me without other pertinent info. Bull, the former civil rights lawyer made very strong specific charges without a shred of evidence that anyone has presented. It’s the typiucal piss poor excuse for journalism and irresponsible citizenship to air these charges without one shred of evidence and incite racial tension with accusations of voter fraud among the black community.
I imagine these kinds of accusations only convince King what’s his name with the baton that his hatred for whites and ongoing oppresion is right on.
Be afraid white people be afraid. People of color are trying to steal your country. What disgusting irresponsible crap.
Bullshit. You’d be singing a different song if it were two good ol’ boys standing there in shitkickers, talking about “niggers” and tapping their Louisville Sluggers against their palms. You’d be the first one talking about voter intimidation.
What a strange little world you must live in.
Hell, wouldn’t even call the cops. Might call the hospital, tell them to get an operating room ready to remove massive foreign objects from a couple of peckerwood rectums. Maybe go fetch some popcorn.
See, where does this attitude come from? You’d enjoy watching a couple of rednecks getting their comeuppance, but you have no problems with a couple of guys who happen to have different skin tone doing the EXACT SAME THING?
Utterly, completely bizarre. There’s another word for it, but we’re not in the Pit.
Oh, and:
No. I mean “meaningfully”, as in, they mean to give the impression that they are willing to use the clubs. It’s a perfectly appropriate construction.
Those of you who keep using this same analogy should get together and form a chorus.
If two good ole boys were standing outside the polling place in their own neighborhood, one likely to vote as they would, how would that be intimidation?
If some black man poll watcher came into their neighborhood and questioned their right to stand outside their polling place and one of them made a racist comment towards that man it wouldn’t be voter intimidation since that person is not a voter. GET IT??
That doesn’t mean I approve of the racist comment or think it’s okay to stand outside a polling place with a weapon. I don’t approve of either,however, that doesn’t make it the specific crime of voter intimidation. And it sure as hell doesn’t add any weight to the outrageous charges brought by Bull on Fox.