Is the Ferguson fix in?
Until the Obama administration I always had at least some level of confidence that if the Department of Justice stepped into a situation things would be handled fairly.
But under Attorney General eric holder, we do not have a Department of Justice. We have a Department of Just-Us. And I have no confidence at all that its treatment of the Michael Brown case will be fair.
Why do I feel this way?
Here, with a major-league hat tip to Paul Mirengoff at powerlineblog.com and to former DOJer J. Christian Adams, is a sampling of the team that will be involved:
-Saeed Mody. a civil rights activist and, in college, co-chair of the Palestine Solidarity Committee;
-Tona Boyd, an ACLUer and Black activist at Harvard (she was Racial Justice Chair of the Black Law Students Association there);
-Chiraag Bains, has a left-wing oriented history of going after police;
-And more, whose biographies are available here.
And if you read Paul\’s entire blog (which I fervently hope you do) you\’ll find plenty more where that came from.
Does this give you any confidence – even one tenth of one percent – that Officer Darren Wilson is going to get a fair shake from holder and his underlings?
Remember, we\’re talking about the same Department of Just-Us which vacated charges against two members of the new black panther party for standing in front of a Philadelphia voting location on election day, 2008, wearing what appeared to be paramilitary clothing – one holding a billy club – and threatening potential voters: charges which the two in question did not fight in court. They didn\’t even bother to show up for the hearing.
Evidently they were confident that the Philadelphia Fix was in then.
Why should we not be equally confident that the Ferguson Fix is in now?
