The inability of the Obama/Holder DOJ to show a sense of propriety in the George Zimmerman case is astounding
(Orlando Sentinel) The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday afternoon appealed to civil rights groups and community leaders, nationally and in Sanford, for help investigating whether a federal criminal case might be brought against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, one advocate said.
The DOJ has also set up a public email address to take in tips on its civil rights investigation.
Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law – who earlier in the day joined calls for federal civil rights charges against Zimmerman, said that later in the afternoon, she joined a U.S. Department of Justice conference call to discuss the prospects.
“They were calling on us to actively refer anyone who had any information,†that might build a case against Zimmerman for either a civil rights violation or a hate crime, Arnwine said. “They said they would very aggressively investigate this case.â€
Arnwine said the call was convened at about 3:30 p.m. by Tom Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, and included representatives from the FBI, and several federal prosecutors, she said. DOJ officials also said they would open a public email address so people could send in tips on the case.
That email address, which is now in operation, is Sanford.florida@usdoj.gov.
This gives new meaning to the term “witch-hunt”. This is Big Brother at its worst. It also shows that those who work for Obama are freaking lazy. And, finally, it shows that the DOJ has absolutely no case and are spinning their wheels in an attempt to please the race hustlers (many of whom participated in the DOJ conference call, which seems wholly inappropriate), who, I’ll bet would be very upset if this was done to them or one of their members.
Powerline calls this “gangster government”. I call this a violation of Zimmerman’s 4th and 5th Amendment Rights, and exactly what we have come to expect from the fascistic Obama government. Oh, and I mentioned that other groups participated on the DOJ call
In addition to Arnwine’s group, Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Laura Murphy, Washington Chapter head of the ACLU; and several national, Florida and Sanford-based “human relations†groups participated, Arnwine said.
As Jammie Wearing Fools notes of the lynch mob “Isn’t the ACLU purportedly in business to protect civil liberties?”
Phineas: Hey, you jerks like to ignore the Constitution, anyway, so why not just go for it with a Bill of Attainder? You know, just outlaw him and declare open season.
And, yeah, Twitter hijacked the meme with #ZimmermanTipLine.
Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.
Best comment at the Twitter site: “#Zimmermantipline He voted only for the WHITE half of Obama, not the black half.”
My email to that public DOJ address:
Hello,
I’d like to report an incident of racism. There seems to be an organization in the federal government led by a black male of American origin who refuses to accept that all people should be treated equally and justly. He is using the federal government to harass and focus the full force of the federal government to punish and penalize another minority member of this United State, George Zimmerman.
I would like an official investigation in to how this man could be in a leadership position noting that he has refused to prosecute The New Black Panther Party for its outright, racial, violent, poll intimidations that were caught on film. Yet, he turns around and promises to other members of the black society of America that he will do everything in his power as an official leader of the Department of Justice to place a Bill of Attainder upon George Zimmerman.
He has also been reported to promise that he will push to remove the “stand your ground” provisions in state laws. I would like to know what business it is of this racist to dictate what laws our individual sovereign states may choose to enact. He tells this to an audience of black people knowing full well, I assume this as he appears to be learned (but I assume here), that in Florida the use of “stand your ground” defense is proffered by more blacks than whites and at a greater percentage than would dictate by their percent of the population.
And again I am going to assume that this racist leader of the federal Department of Justice is a learned man, but shouldn’t he know that when a person is found not guilty by reason of self-defense, that that wholly legal jury-chosen ruling negates all preponderance of guilt that George Zimmerman acted in a racial or illegal profiling manner?
Did not his own DOJ proclaim as much prior to the start of the DOJ hearing? Did not the city of Sanford Police Department proclaim as much prior to the seizure of the case by out-of-town state appointed officials? Wait, aren’t those officials all white people? And they went after and made rather disparaging remarks towards the Not Guilty George Zimmerman? Did they also choose to withhold evidence that they are legally and Constitutionally bound to hand over to the Defense? Would not a better choice of this race-baiting racist be that of Trayvon Martin who called George Zimmerman a “Creepy Ass Cracka”? That to me is very racially offensive. And the fact that the black leader of the federal Department of Justice is choosing to ignore such a blatant racial overtone, as well as ignoring the violent New Black Panther’s polling place intimidation and violence, speaks volumes about this man’s racist leanings.
Regards,