Is This For Real? Are Blacks Too Dumb To Get Voter ID?

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Recently, Joe Biden gave a speech about the despicable Republicans who are trying to suppress the vote to stop black people from voting. That was the same lie that was pushed by Eric Holder the former Attorney General under Obama with Biden as VP. It is somewhat surprising that this topic is still up for debate. But the Democrats and some blacks will continue to play the race card.

If there is anyone out there too dumb to get ID, I’m more than happy with their vote being suppressed. According to Democrats it is racist to ask for ID to vote but not racist to have to show the same kind of ID along with a "vaccine" passport in some cities to eat in a restaurant or go to a show. I have a feeling that the decedents of the group that fought and died for the right to vote can somehow figure out how to register to vote. You have to be amazed at the gall of the left when they use the line that voter ID puts a burden on "minorities" and would discourage them from voting.

Liberal Logic:
Do you need an ID to apply for food stamps? Yes
Do you need an ID to apply for welfare? Yes
Do you need an ID to receive social security? Yes
Do you need an ID to get married? Yes
Do you need an ID to pick up a prescription? Yes
Do you need an ID to buy an alcoholic drink? Yes
Do you need an ID to purchase a plane ticket? Yes
Do you need an ID to get a bank loan? Yes
Do you need an ID to attend college? Yes

Do you need an ID to vote? Democrats don’t think so. I wonder why? Perhaps to evade, mislead, cheat and rig elections?

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Joe Biden — Making much of America miserable...

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Editorial Cartoon by Mike Lester

Eric Holder: I'll Run For President If I Believe I Can Unify The Country...

Former Obama administration attorney general Eric Holder said Wednesday that if he ran for president, he would do so from concluding he could unify the country.

That statement came during an exclusive interview with New York Times reporter Alex Burns. Burns noted that Holder has become much more ambiguous about whether he could run for president in 2020 and asked about his general thoughts.

“If you were gonna do it, why would you do it. If you didn’t do it, why would you not do it?” Burns asked.

“If I were gonna do it, I’d do it because I think I would have concluded that maybe I could unify the country,” Holder said.

He then clarified, “help unify the country, because it’s bigger than any one person.”

“That I could advance—actually, that I could repair then advance the nation in a variety of contexts. That I thought I had something to contribute, that would be the thing that would push me toward considering a run,” Holder said.

Here is the video:

(Via: LI)

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Blog Author's Comments: Eric Holder is obviously deeply committed to unifying the country (heavy sarcasm). And according to Benjamin Weingarten: "Doesn’t get any richer than Eric Holder — Mr. “I Won’t Prosecute Black Panthers with Billy Clubs Standing in Front of a Voting Center" — talking about a basic census question on citizenship “intimidating” people."

The Hill reports: Holder is currently preparing to fight Trump’s decision to include a citizenship question on the census.

A Democratic group headed by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will go to court over a decision by the Commerce Department to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census.

Holder said Tuesday that the group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, would fight the Trump administration’s decision, arguing that including a citizenship question would drastically lower the response rate on the 2020 census and lead to an inaccurate count.

“We will litigate to stop the Administration from moving forward with this irresponsible decision,” Holder said. “The addition of a citizenship question to the census questionnaire is a direct attack on our representative democracy.”

Holder, being part of the Obama regime which divided this country to a point where it is as bad as the lead up to the Civil War, set race relations to an all time low. He was one of the worst in politicizing the DOJ and helped create the weaponizing of the various agencies. Yes, he would be a unification type candidate, unifying the insane and out of control leftists. He is almost as narcissistic as his man-child President and so scandal free, at least as far as the media propaganda machine is concerned.

Holder was the first Attorney General to be held in contempt of Congress. Why wasn't this corrupt, contemptable, racist, gun running marxist held accountable for his actions while working for the government? The citizenship question is another win for the right because it is calling attention to the left wanting non-citizens voting. The Trump administration's decision to add a question about U.S. citizenship to the 2020 census form, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters: “It's something that has been included in every census since 1965, with the exception of 2010, when it was removed.” Because the Obama administration removed it.

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Justice Department To Probe Ferguson Police Force

Washington Post -- Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. this week will launch a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department, according to two federal law enforcement officials.

The investigation, which could be announced as early as Thursday afternoon, will be conducted by the Justice Department’s civil rights division and follow a process similar to that used to investigate complaints of profiling and the use of excessive force in other police departments across the country, the officials said.

The move follows the shooting last month of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American, by a white Ferguson police officer who claimed he acted in self-defense. Brown, who was unarmed, was shot at least six times on the afternoon of Aug. 9.

Holder’s decision will represent the Obama administration’s most aggressive step to address the Ferguson shooting, which set off days of often-violent clashes between police and demonstrators in the streets of the St. Louis suburb.

The federal officials said the probe will look not only at Ferguson but also at other police departments in St. Louis County. Some, like Ferguson, are predominantly white departments serving majority-African-American communities, and at least one department invited the Justice Department to look at its practices. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the pending inquiry.

The investigation is in addition to a Justice Department probe into whether Officer Darren Wilson, who fired the fatal shots, violated Brown’s civil rights. The new probe will look more broadly at whether the department employed policies and practices that resulted in a pattern of civil rights violations.

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Blog author's comments - Barack Obama working hand-in-hand with Eric Holder has to make the looters, arsonists and racists believe he's doing something for them. Does anyone believe Holder's investigation will be totally unbiased? With all the politics attached to this case, there's little chance that justice will be served.

The more information that is brought out into the light, the more it looks like a justifiable police shooting. But, Michael Brown was black and Darren Wilson is a white police officer, so the Obama regime automatically believes this is a racial issue. Its politics period and the Democrats are attempting to use this shooting to push the black voters to the polls for the upcoming Congressional elections. Holder will "launch a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department." Obama and Holder's thinking is that the evidence is in favor of Officer Wilson so it must be due to a wider pattern of white supremacy. Once again, the Democrats never let a crisis go to waste.

Boehner: House Won't Use Its Power To Arrest Lois Lerner

The Hill -- The House has held Lois Lerner in contempt, but it won’t use its power to place the former IRS official under arrest, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said on Sunday.

Under a precedent affirmed by the Supreme Court, each chamber of Congress can authorize its sergeant-at-arms to detain individuals it holds in contempt. But Boehner said on "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo" on Fox News that he has no interest in doing that with Lerner, whom the House last week voted to hold in contempt over her refusal to testify about her role in the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups.

“I’m not sure we want to go down that path,” Boehner said. “It’s never been used,” he said of the provision allowing Congress to arrest individuals and place them in the Capitol jail. The Senate has in fact used that power, but not in the last 80 years. “I’m not sure that it’s an appropriate way to go about this,” Boehner said.

The contempt charge has been referred to the Justice Department, and Boehner said it is up to Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Lerner.

“Now will he do it? We don’t know, but the ball is in his court,” Boehner said.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Washington has said it is reviewing the referral. Lerner has repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, but the House contends she waived that right by defending herself in an opening statement at a House hearing last year before she refused to answer questions from lawmakers.

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Blog author's comments - So Boehner won't issue an arrest warrant for Lerner if Holder fails to prosecute her. The GOP controlled House apparently will do nothing about the IRS head Lois Lerner who was deeply involved in the IRS's targeting of conservative groups and held in contempt by the House. But Boehner passes any decision on what Lerner is guilty of or punishment for what she did to Eric Holder's DOJ.

Eric Holder himself was held in contempt of Congress for failing to produce documents subpoenaed by Congress in connection with the Fast and Furious gun-running investigation. Does anyone think Lerner will receive any penalty imposed for wrongdoing for what she did by the DOJ? I don't believe Lerner initiated what the IRS did. I think she was told what to do by perhaps Harry Reid and President Obama. So along with Fast and Furious the IRS scandal will go ignored and most of the voters will forget about them.

Those who want to be our leaders are the first to run when faced with any serious battle. When you are fighting for the country and your political party, you use every weapon at your disposal. The Democrats understand this, it would be nice if our Republican leaders also figured this out. Boehner doesn't have the leadership ability or the courage to stand up to the Obama administration or the liberal press. The only reason I can see John Boehner taking the position he has, is to put the onus on the Attorney General Eric Holder to treat the case against Lois Lerner with the seriousness it deserves.

Recent Audio From The Mark Levin Radio Show...

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Allen West Knocks Sharpton And Holder As "Race Baiters"
Hate Crimes Indeed

Holder Defends His Fight Against Voter ID Laws at NAACP Convention

NAACP meet goes wild for Eric Holder
Politico -- In a rousing speech at the NAACP convention in Houston, Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday strongly defended his efforts to block controversial voter ID laws in some states - including Texas - saying the Justice Department “will not allow political pretexts to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious right.”

“The arc of American history has always moved toward expanding the electorate. It is what has made this nation exceptional. We will simply not allow this era to be the beginning of the reversal of that historic progress,” Holder told the assembled delegates.

Holder further suggested that the Texas voter ID laws were passed for political reasons rather than a genuine desire to prevent voting fraud.

“In our efforts to protect voting rights and to prevent voting fraud, we will be vigilant and strong. But let me be clear, let me be very, very clear: we will not allow political pretexts to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious right,” the attorney general said to uproarious applause.

It was an appropriate venue: Monday was the first day of trial in a case that Texas has filed against the Justice Department over approval of its voter ID law, and the NAACP convention was set in Houston.

Holder, who said he brought greetings from the First Family and members of the president’s cabinet, also outlined other successes that the Justice Department has achieved, including its work in combating hate crimes - over the past three years the DOJ has prosecuted 35 percent more hate crimes than the three years prior - and the aggressive use of the Civil Right’s Division authority.

“Over the past three years, the Civil Rights Division has filed more criminal civil rights cases than ever before, including record numbers of police misconduct, hate crimes, and human trafficking cases,” Holder noted.

Holder, the first African American attorney general of the United States, was received extraordinarily well by the delegates at the NAACP. After he finished his prepared remarks, the NAACP delegates assembled in Houston passed an “emergency resolution” that resolved the organization and its members to “strongly support” the attorney general’s efforts, especially with regards to voting rights.

The resolution also called Holder one of the best attorneys general ever.

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Blog author's comments - It should really be quite simple. If you are a legal citizen and registered to vote and have a photo ID you are eligible to vote. Those who do not have a photo ID can acquire one at no charge in most states. I would like Eric Holder and other Democrats along with the NAACP to produce a single eligible voter that has been disenfranchised by voter ID laws.

I would find it hard to believe that most people would not understand the Obama administration's problem with voter ID laws. The laws help to prevent voter fraud and to have fair and honest elections. A fair and honest election is not what the Democrats care about in November. Their only concern is to gain a second term for Obama.

NAACP Requires Photo I.D. to See Holder in State Being Sued Over Voter ID
Earlier today, Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the NAACP National Convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. What did media need in order to attend? That's right, government issued photo identification (and a second form of identification too!), something both Holder and the NAACP stand firmly against when it comes to voting.

Supreme Court Upholds Voter Identification Law in Indiana (2008)

Democrats Walk Out Of Eric Holder's Contempt Of Congress Vote

Terry's mom: Walkout is 'a disgrace'
Politico -- The mother of the U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death has been linked to the botched Fast and Furious operation called it “a disgrace” that Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill walked out of Thursday’s House vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.

“I was like, totally shocked, but you know what? I think it was a disgrace to them and not to my son,” Josephine Terry, mother of Brian Terry, said Thursday night on “The O’Reilly Factor.”

In the most dramatic showdown yet, the House voted to hold Holder in contempt of Congress. Thursday over his refusal to turn over some documents in the ongoing probe of the failed gun-walking program. In a show of protest, dozens of Democrats walked off of the House floor during the vote. Brian Terry’s death has been connected to a gun that crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a result of the Fast and Furious sting.

Josephine Terry was pleased by the House vote, telling Fox News, “I think what happened today was very good and I was happy about it. I think it’s a step forward to get justice for my son.”

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Blog author's comments - The Democrats and the Congressional Black Caucus excuse what happened on the basis of party and race. Those who walked out of Holder's contempt of Congress vote insulted all who died because of the Fast and Furious sting.

These same Democrats and the MSM were quite outspoken on getting to the bottom of the shooting of Trayvon Martin in what the shooter George Zimmerman calls a “self-defense” situation.

But, they do not have a problem with the US Attorney General involved in thousands of weapons that were allowed to 'walk' to known drug cartels in Mexico that resulted in the death of U.S. border agent Brian Terry and hundreds of Mexicans, and also Eric Holder's cover-up of exactly what happened and who was engaged in this scheme.

When Holder was backed into a corner concerning the Fast and Furious documents by the House Oversight Committee, President Barack Obama used Executive Privilege to protect the documents that may show evidence involving Holder and others in the Obama administration.

The latest news on all of this -- is that Eric Holder will not be prosecuted for being held in contempt of Congress. In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, the DOJ says that it will not bring the congressional contempt citation against Holder to a federal grand jury and that it will take no other action to prosecute the attorney general. Deputy Attorney General James Cole says the decision is in line with long-standing Justice Department practice across administrations of both political parties.

h/t: wapo

GOP Rep. Gowdy Comments On Nancy Pelosi's Defense of Holder

GOP Rep. Gowdy: Pelosi Is "Mind-Numbingly Stupid"
Real Clear Politics -- Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) accusing Republicans of attacking Eric Holder in order to further an agenda of voter suppression.

"You know my friend Allen West said the race card was the last card in the deck. I think former Speaker Pelosi has opened up a new deck and has found the 2 of clubs. I could not believe it when I heard her saying that. Is that all you have to come back with?" Rep. Gowdy said on FOX News tonight.

"Is that the best you can come up with, is that we got together in this grand scheme to suppress votes and I'm sure she didn't say southern states but that's what she meant," Gowdy said.

"It's really beneath the office of a member of Congress to say something that outrageous and the fact that she was once the Speaker is mind numbing. I honestly, and I have heard her a lot in my 16 years as a prosecutor, I couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth. But keep in mind, Greta, this is the same woman who said she could have arrested Karl Rove any day she wanted. So I don't know what was wrong with her yesterday or today or whenever she said that, but I would schedule an appointment with my doctor if she thinks that we are doing this to suppress votes this fall. That is mind-numbingly stupid," he said.

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Blog author's comments - Trey Gowdy, a GOP representative said aloud what everybody on the right should have been thinking when they heard Pelosi. Her comments were made in a desperate attempt to cover for Eric Holder. I did not hear her address the question of Fast and Furious or the border agent who was killed because of the Obama administration's scheme to damage our Second Amendment rights.

I certainly do agree with Rep. Gowdy's opinion of Nancy Pelosi’s character. What also bothers me is what this says about the voters who keep putting her and her kind in office.

Pelosi: House Contempt Vote Is Really About
Stopping Holder From Fighting Voter Suppression

Obama - Protects Holder and Himself Over Fast and Furious

Issa pushes ahead with Holder contempt vote despite Obama intervention
Fox News -- Rep. Darrell Issa pressed ahead with a committee vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an eleventh-hour move by President Obama to exert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the dispute.

The announcement touched off a caustic debate on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that lasted into the afternoon, as Democrats accused Issa of prosecuting a "political witch hunt" and Republicans stepped up their criticism of Holder's "stonewalling" over the Fast and Furious probe. Even for Washington, the tone at the hearing was decidedly bitter and accusatory.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was first informed of the president's decision to exert executive privilege in a letter Wednesday morning, shortly before the contempt vote was scheduled.

Issa said committee staff are evaluating the letter but described the move as too little, too late as he and other GOP lawmakers questioned the basis for the assertion.

"This untimely assertion by the Justice Department falls short of any reason to delay today's proceedings," Issa said.

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Blog author's comments - Obama invoked executive privilege protecting the release of the Fast and Furious documents. The main reason Obama did this was to shield himself. This was a government program put together I must assume under the approval of Obama and AG Eric Holder. This program led to the death of border agent Brian Terry and hundreds of people in Mexico.

A huge number of guns were purchased in Arizona by 'straw' buyers and 'walked' across the border into Mexico with the intent to show the people in our country how easy it is for drug cartels to purchase guns in the US. This was done as an assault on the Second Amendment with hope that the American people would agree that more and tighter gun control laws were needed.

The reason Obama made his move today was because Congressman Issa planned to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for not being truthful to the committee and refusing to provide them the documentation they had asked for months ago.

For Obama to use executive privilege so the documents do not have to be released should show everyone that not only Holder, but also Obama knew about the Fast and Furious scheme. Why else protect the documents or in this case evidence against the Obama administration?

Flash: House panel votes to place Holder in contempt of Congress.
Full House to vote next week.
In 2007 Obama Attacked Bush For Hiding Behind Executive Privilege

Contempt Vote Against Holder Concerning Fast and Furious

House GOP schedules contempt vote against Holder
Washington Examiner -- House Republicans say they have run out of patience with the Justice Department over its withholding of documents related to the gun walking operation known as Fast and Furious.

The House Oversight and Government reform committee announced Monday that it will vote on a "contempt of Congress" motion against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder "for his failure to produce documents" related to the department's knowledge of Fast and Furious, which the panel subpoenaed in October.

The announcement ends a brief detente between the two branches over Fast and Furious. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, tried to stave off a contempt vote by pressuring the White House directly to turn over thousands of pages of documents, but the Justice Department has not complied.

Aides told The Washington Examiner that the committee’s statement could be a last-ditch effort to get Holder to cough up the documents. The statement includes this line: "If the Attorney General decides to produce these subpoenaed documents, I am confident we can reach agreement on other materials and render the process of contempt unnecessary."

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Chairman Darrell Issa says 31 Democrats Will Vote To Condemn Holder

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Blog author's comments - This is how long it takes the GOP to lose their patience and do something about Holder? Mine was gone within the first month I found out about 'Fast and Furious.'

Seriously, I don't believe this will work. Eric Holder should have been gone months ago but I think he will survive and keep his job as the Attorney General. Obama has of course been no help, Holder knows too much concerning what Obama has done during his time in office.

The MSM will continue to protect the Obama administration and spin this as an out of control Republican House focused on trying to embarrass Obama in an election year.

Department Of Justice Response To Records Request - Blank Pages

Government's answer to "Fast and Furious" records requests: Blank Pages
CBS News -- For more than a year, CBS News has been investigating the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms' "Fast and Furious" operation and related cases that also employed the controversial tactic of "gunwalking." With Justice Department officials refusing all interview requests to date, CBS News requested numerous public documents through the Freedom of Information Act.

So far, all of the requests that have been answered have been denied in part or in full.

This week, we received a partial response to a request made more than a year ago. It asked for communications involving "Project Gunrunner," the umbrella program for Fast and Furious, from 2010 through April 2011. Specifically, it sought any communications to which any of the following top Justice officials were a party: Attorney General Eric Holder; Lanny Breuer, Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division; Kevin Carwile, chief of the Capital Case Unit; and Deputy Assistant Attorney Generals Bruce Schwarz and Kenneth Blanco.

The response includes mostly-blank pages.

Entire column...

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Blog author's comments - Should the blank pages be a surprise to CBS News? For months, congressional Republicans probing ATF's Fast and Furious "Gunwalker" scandal -- led by California Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman Darell Issa -- have been preparing a contempt citation against Eric Holder over Fast and Furious.

If the DOJ will not provide the House Oversight Committee the information they have requested, why would CBS News think they would receive anything?

Perhaps -- but I have serious doubts -- the Oversight Committee will expose the hypocrisy and deceit of AG Eric Holder and the Department of Justice over operation 'Fast and Furious'.

I don't believe anything will come of this investigation, Fast and Furious will eventually fade away with no damage to AG Eric Holder or President Obama.

Obama And Holder Want To Ban Guns

Holder tells Congress the Obama
administration wants to ban guns
Daily Caller -- Last Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to answer questions about his role in the deadly “Fast and Furious” gun-running scandal. However, instead of answers, Congress got more defiance, more arrogance, and more wasted time with an attorney general who clearly feels no sense of obligation to the American people or our rule of law.

But for all the stonewalling, there was at least one telling moment at this hearing, and it should concern law-abiding gun owners and all Americans who expect accountability from our government.

In a rash attempt to deflect attention away from himself and his own irresponsibility, Holder let Congress know that the Obama administration is still working toward the day when it can reinstate former President Bill Clinton’s so-called “assault weapons” ban. According to Holder:

This administration has consistently favored the reinstitution of the assault weapons ban. It is something that we think was useful in the past with regard to the reduction that we’ve seen in crime, and certainly would have a positive impact on our relationship and the crime situation in Mexico.

It’s difficult to follow Holder’s logic here, but it goes something like this...

The Obama administration — particularly Eric Holder’s Justice Department — oversaw an epic scandal whereby our own federal government illegally funneled thousands of firearms into the hands of Mexican drug lords. This contributed to the death of one U.S. Border Patrol agent and hundreds of Mexicans. Keep reading...

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Blog author's comments - by Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President

Obama’s Secret War On Second Amendment Freedom
Obama won’t admit his anti-gun agenda, but his record speaks for itself. Within a week of his election to the White House in 2008, Obama’s “transition team” posted several elements of his gun-ban agenda on the Internet—at change.gov—but then abruptly deleted the web page.

Since then, whenever the Obama administration has dropped its guard and revealed its true intent to ban firearms, it has quickly backed down to restore a facade of sanity.

For example, in 2009, less than a month after he was confirmed as attorney general, Eric Holder admitted that his boss wanted to ban your semi-automatic firearms. Then he quickly backed off.

In 2010, top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency told anti-hunting activists the agency had the power to impose a ban on your lead ammunition. Then they quickly backed off.

In 2011, the Department of Interior announced that it was considering bans to stop you from target shooting on public lands. Then it quickly backed off.

The motive behind this madness is clear. Obama and company are engaged in a conspiracy of public deception intended to:

1. Lull gun owners into a false sense of security to decimate the ranks of groups like the NRA and neutralize gun owners as a political force in elections and, thereby;

2. Win re-election to a second term in the White House, at which point they will be immune from elections and free to consolidate and misuse their ever-increasing power to;

3. Excise the Second Amendment from our Bill of Rights forever through legislation, litigation, regulation, executive orders, judicial fiat, international treaties and every lever of unchecked power that they can wrest from all three branches of government.

And the key to their success lies in keeping gun owners like you in the dark.

Make no mistake: Barack Obama has spent his entire political career engaged in a stealthy assault on your Right to Keep and Bear Arms:

• 1996: Obama endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of all handguns.
• 1998: Obama endorsed a ban on the sale or transfer of all semi-automatic firearms.
• 1999: Obama supported a 500 percent increase in federal taxes on ammunition.
• 2003: Obama voted to ban single-shot, over-under and side-by-side shotguns.
• 2004: Obama said the right to carry should be banned nationwide.

Obama even said you shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun in your home for self-defense!

It’s true: Before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Washington, D.C.’s ban on firearms in the home for self-defense, Obama had the gall to say that the ban was constitutional.

Worse yet, when the Illinois legislature voted on a bill that would exempt residents from prosecution for violating a local handgun ban if they used their handguns for self-defense in their own homes, Obama voted against the bill!

Once in the White House, Obama filled his cabinet with the most rabid anti-gun and radical anti-hunting extremists ever seen in Washington.

Read the entire column by Wayne LaPierrre here.
h/t: Benjamin Carter

Allen West - AG Holder Playing Race Card

West: Holder's race card is the 'last card in the deck'
Daily Caller - Florida Republican Rep. Allen West told The Daily Caller on Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder’s use of the race card as a way to attack those who are criticizing him is “reprehensible.”

“I think this is absolutely the last card in the deck, and that shows how weak their ground is,” West said in a phone interview. “But, what that means is they want to make white individuals afraid of continuing to put the pressure on Eric Holder because they don’t want to be seen as racist, and that is something that we have got to move beyond.”

Holder had told The New York Times over the weekend, in a front page Sunday story that he thinks those who are criticizing him have racial motivations to do so. Holder said some unspecified faction — what he refers to as the “more extreme segment” — is driven to criticize both him and President Barack Obama due to the color of their skin.

West said Holder can’t logically assign race as a motivation behind the criticisms for his handling of Operation Fast and Furious. “What Fast and Furious has to do with is misleading the Congress and the American people about what you knew about this program, and if you did not know anything about this program, then who’s in charge of the Department of Justice?” West said.

“It has nothing to do with your race — it has everything to do with competence, with your character and with your ability to lead the Department of Justice.” - Keep reading...

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Blog author's comments - Once again Col. Allen West has hit the nail on the head. Holder should not be the Attorney General but Obama will continue to support and defend him. They both have the same goal which is the destruction of the Second Amendment.

Holder did not tell the truth about his knowledge of operation 'Fast and Furious'. Holder and Obama attempt to hide behind the color of their skin -- the American people should know by now who they are by their actions.

The Obama Administration Is Planning A Second-Term Attack On Gun Rights

Holder Concedes ATF Let Guns 'Walk' To Mexico

U.S. Seals Court Records Of Border Patrol Agent's Murder

AG Eric Holder - Senate Judiciary Committee

Holder concedes ATF let guns "walk" to Mexico
Washington Examiner - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder conceded this morning that under his leadership, agents allowed guns to "walk" into Mexico, where they ended up in the hands of drug lords, and he said that the effects of this mistake would be felt for years to come.

"I want to be clear: any instance of so-called 'gun-walking' is simply unacceptable," Holder said in his opening statement before the Senate Judiciary committee. "Regrettably, this tactic was used as part of Fast and Furious, which was launched to combat gun trafficking and violence on our Southwest Border. This operation was flawed in concept, as well as in execution. And, unfortunately, we will feel its effects for years to come as guns that were lost during this operation continue to show up at crime scenes both here and in Mexico."

In July, the man who implemented the Fast and Furious program for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives', William Newell, repeatedly denied that they let guns "walk," Newell made his comments in testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

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Blog author's comments - “Gun-walking” is simply "unacceptable" said Eric Holder. But it was part of his 'Fast and Furious' plan. He has also lied about his knowledge of 'Fast and Furious'. He should not be the Attorney General. How many people, both Mexican and American, are now dead because of him?

Holder had to have discussed this with the President. Having him testify is a waste of time. He will never tell the real truth about who knew what and when. This program was designed to usher in an era of strict gun control. Both Holder and Obama are anti-gun and Second Amendment.

Holder faces what is likely to be a much more hostile environment next month when he testifies before a House panel where Republican Darrell Issa, R-California, will wield the gavel and control the questioning.

Holder claims he never saw memos about 'Fast and Furious' addressed to him

Documents suggest Holder knew about 'Faast and Furious' earlier than he claimed

Sen. Feinstein - Wants National Gun Registration

Feinstein Uses 'Fast and Furious' to
Make Case for National Gun Registration
CNS News - Making a case for national gun registration, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said “perhaps mistakes were made” in the botched gun-walking program known as Fast and Furious, but she said trying to assign blame misses the larger problem.

“This is a deep concern for me. I know others disagree, but we have very lax laws when it comes to guns,” Feinstein, an advocate of gun control, said during Tuesday's hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism.

“My concern, Mr. Chairman, is that there’s been a lot said about Fast and Furious, and perhaps mistakes were made,” Feinstein said. “But I think this hunt for blame doesn’t really speak about the problem. And the problem is, anybody can walk in and buy anything.”

In Operation Fast and Furious, a Justice Department program that began in September 2009, law enforcement knowingly allowed about 2,000 U.S. guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels, with the intent of tracking the weapons and making arrests. However, law enforcement lost track of most of the weapons. The program was halted in December 2010 after two weapons from the program were found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
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Blog author's comments - Fast and Furious and Gunwalker broke existing laws. If the laws were followed those guns would not have walked. The government set this up and lied about their involvement in it. But, according to Dianne Feinstein more gun laws are needed.

The original purpose of Fast and Furious was to create the illusion that Mexican guns were coming from the U.S., prompting the need to add more gun laws to register and control the sale of guns, and restrict the sale of assault weapons.

Now, after all the information has been made public, the Democrats still have the nerve to go ahead with the plan. They never cease to amaze me. Fast and Furious from day one was a covert operation against the Constitution and the Second Amendment.

What Feinstein wants will happen if Obama should win a second term in office.

Did Eric Holder Lie To House Judiciary Committee?

Documents Suggest Holder Knew About
'Fast and Furious' Earlier Than He Claimed
Fox News - For the first time, documents appear to show Attorney General Eric Holder was made aware of the Operation Fast and Furious earlier than he claimed -- up to 9 nine months earlier.

The documents seem to contradict what Holder told a House Judiciary Committee on May 3, when he said he could not recall the exact date, but he'd "probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."

However, in a July 2010 memo, Michael Walther, director of the National Drug Intelligence Center, told Holder straw buyers in the Operation Fast and Furious case "are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to the Mexican drug trafficking cartels."

Documents also show, contrary to earlier reports, the Justice Department was aware that ATF agents under the department's direction were involved in the controversial practice known as "gun walking" -- allowing illicit gun sales to proceed to track the traffickers to higher-ups. The department has said it did not allow guns to "walk." When agents "let guns walk," they stop surveillance and allow criminals to transfer weapons to others. In this case, that meant allowing the guns to cross the border into Mexico.

Until now, there's been an attempt to portray Operation Fast and Furious as a rogue operation by ATF agents in Phoenix and the Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office. But insiders claim these documents show the Department of Justice in Washington was intimately aware of the case almost from the beginning.

In response to the documents released Monday, the Justice Department said Holder's response referred to when he first learned of the "troubling tactics" of the program, not the name of it. A department spokesman also says that the "gun walking" referred to in the October 2010 email exchange is about another case initiated before Operation Fast and Furious.

FOX News has reported that Holder was personally identified as being informed of the plan at least twice. One report, from 2010, states that Holder was informed of the plan.



**UPDATE** GOP chairman wants special counsel
to find out if Holder lied to Congress

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Blog author's comments - If the news report is accurate - it will be interesting to see how Holder and Obama slide out from under this.

Could be that there’s going to be someone thrown under the bus and the records swept under the rug. We shall see if Attorney General Eric Holder will retain his job.

Does anybody doubt that Holder did not know about 'Fast and Furious' as it was happening? The man is the head of the Justice Department and he was not informed? What did the President know, and when did he know it?

If this is true, Holder is complicit in the murders of not only a U.S. Border Agent, but of all the Mexican citizens who have been killed by the drug cartels who received these weapons.

Arizona Sheriff Implicates ATF, Holder and DOJ

Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu implicates the ATF, Eric Holder
and the Obama Justice Department as accomplices to murder involving weapons used in Operation Fast and Furious


Blog author's comments - Is Sheriff Babeu going to be one of only a few to talk about this? My understanding of operation 'Fast and Furious' was supposed to prove the administration knew who the bad guys were - legitimate gun dealers in the Southwest - and set out to make them the heavies in a phony sting operation.

The operation was to permit straw purchasers to complete the weapon's purchase and move them to Mexico, in order to build a bigger case against Mexican criminal organizations suspected of being the ultimate buyers. The guns were supposed to be tracked but many were not. As a result the government does not know who has many of these guns.

Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he and other higher-ups at the Justice Department were not aware of the operation as it was being carried out.

At least one American lawman is dead because of this program that put firearms into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. And, supposedly 200 or more Mexican police, soldiers and civilians have been killed.

Congressman Issa is calling for a special investigator. But, more Republicans need to speak out until the situation is resolved. The GOP should make 'Fast and Furious' a campaign issue.

HT: GWP

N.R.A. Tells Obama - We Will Not Be There

N.R.A. Declines to Meet With Obama on Gun Policy
NY Times - More than two months after the Tucson shootings, the administration is calling together both the gun lobby and gun safety groups to find common ground. But President Obama has no plans to take the lead in proposing further gun control legislation, aides say, and the nation’s major gun rights group is snubbing the invitation.

On Tuesday, officials at the Justice Department will meet with gun control advocates in the first of what will be a series of meetings over the next two weeks with people on different sides of the issue, including law enforcement, retailers and manufacturers, to seek agreement on possible legislative or administrative actions.

The effort follows Mr. Obama’s call, in a column on Sunday in a Tucson newspaper, to put aside “stale policy debates” and begin “a new discussion” on ways to better enforce and strengthen existing laws to keep mentally unstable, violent and criminal people from getting guns.

But the National Rifle Association, for decades has been the most formidable force against proposals to attempt to limit gun sales or ownership, is refusing to join the discussion — possibly dooming it from the start, given the lobby’s clout with both parties in Congress. Administration officials had indicated they expected that the group would be represented at a meeting, perhaps on Friday.

“Why should I or the N.R.A. go sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the Second Amendment in the United States?” said Wayne Lapierre, the longtime chief executive of the National Rifle Association.

He named Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has almost no role in gun-related policies, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder.

“It shouldn’t be a dialogue about guns; it really should be a dialogue about dangerous people,” Mr. LaPierre said, adding that his group has supported proposals to prevent gun sales to the mentally ill, strengthen a national system of background checks and spur states to provide needed data. - Continue reading > >

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Blog author's comments - Good call by the NRA and Wayne LaPierre. Some people still have principles. He knows exactly what he is dealing with and wants no part of this charade to chip away at our Second Amendment rights. Obama and Holder are two of the most anti-gun people in Washington.

Obama is also having this meeting to appease his anti-gun/anti-second amendment leftist crowd. He does not want them to say he did nothing after the Tucson shooting.

Keep the guns in the hands of law abiding citizens and this will solve most of the problems. I believe that Obama and Holder only care about trying to force their unwanted agenda down our throats.

The “gun lobby” (NRA) is strong on gun safety, along with gun owners rights and strong penalties for those who use guns to commit crimes. The “gun safety groups” are for limiting and banning guns.

Repeated polling has found that a majority of Americans believe the constitution ensures their right to own a gun. And a majority also supports stricter enforcement of current laws.

Arizona Declares War - Suing Obama Regime

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Files Lawsuit Against Obama
Administration Over Failure to Secure Border
And Enforce Immigration Laws
Governor Jan Brewer has announced on behalf of the State of Arizona, she is suing the Federal Government.

There are 5 counts and here is a summary from the press conference.

1/ failure to achieve operational control over the Mexico/Arizona border.

2/ failure to protect Arizona from invasion and Arizona says invasion not just limited to other countries to invade but applies to people and secured border.

3 / failure to enforce immigration laws . . . . and their failure causes national security risks . . . abuse of discretion that Fed only enforce the law they want to and they should enforce all.

4/ declaratory relief about reimbursement for Fed govt’s failure to pay for incarceration of prisoners (illegal).

5/ under 10th amendment . . . powers not delegated to the Fed, are reserved to the people and while control of border is fed responsibility, when criminals cross border illegally and commit crimes, it is a state responsibility and the Feds are interfering with the state to fulfill its responsibilities

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Blog author's comments - Every state should join this lawsuit. We the people of the United States of America have the right to have our borders and our laws respected and enforced.

Citizens of other countries who are in our country illegally have no right to demand anything from our government. If they want to be Americans, we have a path to citizenship; just follow the rules that are in place.

I don't want to hear anything or anyone talk about amnesty for the illegals, they are breaking the law period! Those who want to enforce the law to protect their states and their people are stopped from doing so by Barack Obama, Eric Holder and left-wing judges. Obama sees illegals as future votes for the Democrat Party.

We need to insist on the equal protection, application and enforcement of the law. We can only function if everyone follows the same rules. We should not change the laws to accommodate those breaking them.

h/t: gretawire

Eric Holder - The Worst AG to Ever Serve

Bill O'Reilly: Eric Holder Is Now The Worst Attorney General to Ever Serve

O'Reilly: "Mr. Shabazz means nothing to this country, he's a loon looking for attention, also his party is as fringe as it gets, nothing to be concerned about.

But that is no reason for Attorney General Eric Holder not to uphold the law, that's his sworn duty to uphold the law, Holder is getting away with this because the liberal print press and the network news pretty much ignoring the story, someone call Brian Williams."

"Once on this broadcast I called Janet Reno the worst Attorney General ever to serve, now I must apologize to Ms. Reno, Mr. Holder has taken the mantle"

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By Chelsea Schilling
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

Minister King Samir Shabazz, aka Maurice Heath "You want freedom? You're gonna have to kill some crackers! You're gonna have to kill some of their babies!"

Those were the words of Minister King Samir Shabazz, also known as Maurice Heath, the New Black Panther Party's Philadelphia leader.

Shabazz is the same man the Obama administration Department of Justice refused to prosecute after he was filmed on Election Day 2008 with Jerry Jackson wearing paramilitary uniforms, carrying a nightstick and blocking a doorway to a polling location to intimidate voters.

The following video shows his statements during a National Geographic special on the New Black Panthers:

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Blog author's comments - Based upon what Holder has done since his appointment, I cannot disagree with O'Reilly. Holder is Obama's man and Obama and many of us knew the type of individual Eric Holder was before he was ever appointed.

This is precisely why Obama selected him to be the Attorney General. He has a reputation for twisting and bending the law to serve his purpose. In the case of the Obama regime, he will do whatever Obama asks or tells him to do.

For example: He dropped the charges against the New Black Panther Party. How many of you do not believe Obama told him to do so?