Year: 2009

Report: Dept of Justice Lead Who Supported Civil Complaint Against Racial Hate Group Transferred

Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists “New Black Panthers” as “Black Separatist” Hate Group

— Washington Times: “Justice transfers Panthers pursuer out of D.C. office”
— Washington Times reports: “The veteran Justice Department voting rights section chief who recommended going forward on a civil complaint against members of the New Black Panther Party after they disrupted a Pennsylvania polling place in last year’s elections has been removed from his post and transferred to the U.S. attorney’s office in South Carolina”
— “Justice Department officials confirmed Monday that Christopher Coates, who signed off on the complaint’s filing in federal court in Philadelphia in January accusing the party and three of its members of civil rights violations, would begin his new assignment next month.”
— “The complaint, which accused party members of intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place while wearing black berets, black combat boots, black dress shirts and black jackets with military-style markings, and wielding a nightstick, was later dismissed by Obama administration political appointees at the Justice Department.”
— “The incident gained national attention when it was captured on videotape and distributed on YouTube.”
— “Kevin McDonald, spokesman for U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins in Columbia, S.C., confirmed Monday that Mr. Coates had been ‘detailed’ to that office and that officials there were “looking forward to his arrival.” He said the veteran civil rights attorney had been assigned to the office’s criminal division.”

New Black Panthers Hate Group Reportedly Harrass Voters at Philadelphia, PA Voting Polls
New Black Panthers Hate Group Reportedly Harrass Voters at a Philadelphia, PA Voting Poll

SPLC on the New Black Panthers Group:
— “The new group rose to prominence in the late 1990s under the leadership of Khalid Abdul Muhammad, who previously was the leading spokesman for the black separatist Nation of Islam, but whose incendiary rhetoric turned out too extreme even for that organization. In a September 2000 speech, he railed against ‘the hooked-nose, bagel-eatin’, lox-eatin’, perpetrating-a-fraud, just-crawled-out-of-the-caves-and-hills-of-Europe, so-called, wannabe, imposter Jew,’ and also said, ‘There’s only two kinds of white folks, there’s only two kinds, bad white folks and worse white folks.’ ”
— “Khalid Muhammad died in 2001 and leadership passed to Malik Zulu Shabazz, who once praised his predecessor for being a man ‘who gives the white man nightmares… who makes the Jews pee in their pants at night.’ Zulu Shabazz was one of three party members named in the original Justice Department complaint in December.”

Other R.E.A.L. Postings referencing the Black Panthers

Justice Department Takes a Second Look at New Black Panthers Voter-Intimidation Case

Justice Department Opens Inquiry Into New Black Panther Case

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Panel blasts Panther case dismissal

Decision to Drop Suit Against Black Panthers in Poll Intimidation Approved by Associate AG

Black Panthers had wielded weapons, blocked polls

— PDF: House on Judiciary – Lamar Smith Letter — May 28, 2009

— PDF: Dismissal Notice

— PDF: DOJ Complaint Against Black Panthers

— YouTube Video of Black Panther activities at election polls
— “‘Security’ patrols stationed at polling places in Philly”

Other R.E.A.L. Postings on Racial Supremacism

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Urge your family, friends, and neighbors – to choose love, not hate – and work towards building a culture that does not reward supremacism and totalitarian violence, but urges those who support and appease such hate to drop the hate and the fear from their hearts.

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“Argentine Judge Orders Arrest of Top Chinese Communist Party Officials for Crimes Against Humanity”

“Argentine Judge Orders Arrest of Top Chinese Communist Party Officials for Crimes Against Humanity”

Quit CCP reports:
“This decision is particularly historic because it is not only seeking to bring perpetrators to justice after the fact, it is also coming at a time when these crimes are ongoing. The arrest and prosecution of these two men could literally prevent further torture and killing of innocent Chinese citizens.”

Following a four-year long investigation, Argentine judge Octavio Araoz de Lamadrid of Federal Court No. 9 issued a 146-page decision and related orders on December 17. The document offers a detailed and damning assessment of the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China and the role that the two top officials played.

“The genocidal strategy … comprised a broad range of actions arranged in total contempt for life and human dignity,” says Lamadrid’s decision. “The designated purpose – the eradication of Falun Gong – was used to justify any means used. Therefore, torment, torture, disappearances, deaths, brainwashing, psychological torture were everyday occurrences in the persecution of its practitioners.”

The judge concludes the decision by issuing a national and international order to capture the pair to be carried out by the Interpol Department of the Federal Police of Argentina. As such, should the accused former officials travel to other countries that have extradition treaties with Argentina, they will ostensibly face being detained and transferred to Argentina to be brought before a court.

According to the attorneys who initially filed the case on behalf of Falun Gong victims, Dr. Alejandro Cowes and Dr. Adolfo Casabal Elia, the judge’s decision was based on evidence that included the oral testimonies of 17 victims of torture and other forms of persecution. The judge also took into account the testimony of two medical doctors, United Nations reports, and research by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Communist China Sentences Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in Prison on Christmas Day

— “Liu was one of the primary authors of Charter 08,, a peaceful online manifesto calling for practical democratic reform in China with over 10,000 signatories.” — Laogai Research Foundation

Chinese Activist Liu Gets 11 Years
— WSJ reports:
— “A Chinese court sentenced Liu Xiaobo, China’s most prominent dissident, to 11 years in prison for criticizing the government, an unusually long sentence that rights activists say suggests other activists will also face harsh punishment.”
— “The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court announced Friday its ruling that Mr. Liu was guilty of ‘inciting subversion of state power.'”
— “The 53-year-old scholar had spent more than a year in detention before his trial Wednesday, which lasted less than three hours.”
— “Mr. Liu plans to appeal the decision, said one of his lawyers, Ding Xikui. ‘There were some flaws in the procedures of the trial,’ he said, but he declined to comment further. Appeals on sensitive political charges almost never succeed in China, where political directives often supersede the written law.”
— “Mr. Liu has pushed for democratic reforms since the 1980s, and was a participant in the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. He was detained by authorities last year shortly after he helped write Charter 08, a call for sweeping legal and political change, which hundreds of other scholars also signed.”
— “The letter, which has since attracted thousands of signatures of Chinese citizens, is seen as one of the boldest challenges to Communist Party rule in recent memory.”

China court sentences dissident Liu to 11 years jail for subversion
— Kyodo News reports:
“Prominent Chinese human rights defender and political dissident Liu Xiaobo was sentenced by a Beijing court to 11 years in prison for subversion Friday, his lawyers said.”

Liu Xiaobo sentence criticized as harsh
— UPI: Human-rights groups and governments have condemned the 11-year sentence of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo despite Beijing claiming criticisms are interference in its internal affairs.
— “In Brussels, the European Union said it was ‘deeply concerned by the disproportionate sentence,’ according to a report by the British Broadcasting Corp. U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said in Geneva that the case represents ‘a further severe restriction on the scope of freedom of expression in China.’ ”
— “The Obama administration issued a statement on the America.gov Web site that the trial is ‘uncharacteristic of a great country.’ Philip Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs, told reporters just before the sentencing that Liu’s case is “clearly a political trial that will likely lead to a political conviction.’ ”

— Wall Street Journal reports:
— “Chinese leader Hu Jintao is putting Christmas to the most cynical use imaginable: jailing a prominent dissident on a holiday when most of the world’s media and government workers will be preoccupied with family and friends.”
— “While millions of Christians are commemorating the day “grace and truth” became incarnate in Bethlehem, Liu Xiaobo will be sentenced for speaking truth to communist power. This callous exploitation of Christmas should inspire freedom-loving people, whether Christian or not, to keep Mr. Liu and his family in their thoughts over the holiday.”
— “Mr. Liu, a drafter of the Charter 08 manifesto a year ago calling for political reform, is so far the only one of more than 8,000 signatories to be arrested and tried for subversion. His trial comes in the midst of an intensifying crackdown on all forms of dissent. Mr. Liu was subjected to a two-hour “trial” yesterday– his wife, chosen lawyer and outside observers were excluded—and the verdict is due to be announced on Friday morning.”

Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Human Rights Activist, Arrested December 8, 2008
Liu Xiaobo, Chinese Human Rights Activist, Arrested December 8, 2008

R.E.A.L. Postings on Liu Xiaobo:

Communist China: Secretary Clinton Explains U.S. “Pragmatic Policy” on Human Rights — Calls for “Principled Pragmatism” on Communist Abuses

Communist China: China dissident begins second year in detention — Liu Xiaobo

Twitter Campaign to Free Chinese Human Rights Advocate Liu Xiaobo

China Support Network publishes letter to Obama re: China trip upcoming this month

Chinese intellectuals speak up for dissident Liu Xiaobo

Communist China accuses pro-democracy activist Liu Xiabo of inciting a rebellion

Communist China: Dissident writer Liu Xiaobo held after sentence ends

U.S.: John Kusumi, founder of the China Support Network, calls for Chinese people to rise up

Communist China: Arrested Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo to receive prestigious award

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China Charter 08 – December 10, 2008

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