Justice for All: DOJ and the New Black Panthers

Wretchard:

The salient thing about J. Christian Adams’s accusation that the Obama administration deliberately let off the New Black Panther Party after it engaged in voter intimidation is that, if true, it constitutes a pure exercise in the abuse of power. The other wrongs it represents — the perversion of the electoral process, the violation of civil rights — are secondary. The most serious allegation in the whole affair is that the certain officials countenanced a crime because they wanted to. The most concentrated expression of tyranny is malice in the service of caprice. . . .


The greatest damage that political correctness has inflicted on society is to make each of us forget that underneath the accidents of color, nationality and creed, that all of us are men. By dividing humanity into hyphenated buckets, each sequestered in its hate, the puppet masters have managed to set one against the other so thoroughly that the sharpers, wheeler-dealers and fixers can operate undisturbed. In a world where every one thinks of himself as white, black, gay, straight — we have forgotten that the real distinction is between who holds power and who does not. Nothing else matters. The Black Panthers and the three men who are suspected of killing Robert Wone are not impotent underdogs. On the contrary, they wield far more power than we, in our normal lives, could ever dispose of. God grant we never meet them, for if we do, we meet them alone. . . . .

Update II - Ace's comment seems to fit with Wretchard's statement:  "Here's the sort of guy Eric Holder perilously sprang free. "   And Ace is talking about perils to civil rights law - not just to perils against innocent people. Read the whole post and watch the video:

You want freedom?  You're going to have to kill some crackers.  You're going to have to kill some of their babies. 

This is the same guy speaking out in the voter intimidation video presented to the DOJ, just to be clear.

"Social Justice" sometimes means the eradication of "equality before the law".  Our Department of Justice does not appear to believe in equality before the law.  Transforming America, indeed. As Wretchard suggests, if the DOJ acted as it appears to have acted, God help us.

The whistleblower in the dismissal of the New Black Panther case is now being slimed by the DOJ. Typical. Whistleblowers often suffer massive hardship for the rest of us, with little or no thanks.

Might there be a connection between the relative lack of media coverage of the New Black Panther case dismissal and the outing of David Weigel's Journolist posts in order to get him fired? He seems to be the only person at the two major Eastern dailies who mentioned the case.

UPDATE:  The whistleblower explains why he was upset enough to resign.  Also check out the powerful video, an interview of a civil rights attorney who witnessed the intimidation by members of the New Black Panther Party.  He's a self-identified "old liberal", sort of like Dennis Prager - worked on the election campaigns of Robert Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and the first black man to run for governor in Mississippi. "New liberals" are different. They tend to think of "group rights" and "social justice" (which means different things to different people) before "individual rights" and "justice under the law".