Liberal "Logic"

Whenever the movie “A Time To Kill” is recalled, it is oft remembered as a mediocre movie with one very powerful scene.  A young, black girl is brutally assaulted in rural Mississippi by two members of the KKK; her father takes vengeance killing the men, and must then face an all white jury for double homicide.  His defense lawyer’s closing argument goes over every horrifying detail of the daughter’s attack, with his final admonishment to the jury being to imagine if the girl had been white.  It is such a haunting moment; the realization that some people are so dangerously intolerant they can only be convinced of a crime if they imagine the victim is of their own race.

It is, also, haunting to know this type of ignorance is blatantly rearing its head with sparse coverage from the media, nor any great outcry from the politically correct demanding answers.  It appears we must invoke the aforementioned “logic” once again, only this time in reverse:

On Election Day 2008, Minister Malik Zulu Shabazz, leader of Philadelphia’s New Black Panthers, stood in front of a polling place dressed in paramilitary uniform yielding a nightstick.  Two more Black Panthers members, in identical uniforms, accompanied Shabazz—they were all caught on video, and all three were charged with the federal offense of voter intimidation brought forth by the Bush Administration.  Consequently, the DOJ obtained a default judgment, which is only fitting considering the violation of the Voter Rights Act.

However, Attorney General Eric Holder, appointed by the Obama Administration, quietly dismissed all charges against the two other members, while reducing Mr. Shabazz's charges to nothing more than a slap on the wrist.  Mr. Holder was satisfied to accept the word of the leader of The New Black Panthers, a racist and violence-inciting organization, that he’d refrain from carrying a deadly weapon near a polling place until the year 2012.  Mr. Shabazz, whose been videoed spouting his belief that in order to gain freedom “you’re gonna have to kill some crackers” and “you’re gonna have to kill some of their babies” too, and who is a staunch Obama supporter, had only to pinky promise to emerge unscathed from serious charges that were never rebutted by the defendants. 

Another frightening thought is what happens after 2012?  He can once again don his billyclub and intimidate “crackers”?  Is it really coincidence that the year 2012 was chosen, the same year Obama will run for his second term, allowing Malik Shabazz and the Black Panthers to be free and clear to enforce "security" once again?

Seeing as dangerous intolerance does not only run rampant in rural backwaters, I address the Obama Administration, and Mr. Holder in particular, on the new liberal “logic” needed to address this case:

Imagine the Klu Klux Klan dressed in white sheets and pointy hats yielding nightsticks, and standing in front of a polling place during election time.  What action should be taken?  What action WOULD be taken if the targets were not "crackers"?