By William L. Garvin
Early
in his tenure as Attorney General, Eric Holder chose to lob a cultural grenade by
his incendiary charge that America was a “nation of cowards” when it came to
race relations. He was clearly
projecting his own internal biases and prejudices because if America were to
defend herself, she could counter-claim that Holder’s Department of Justice, in
specific, and the Obama presidency, in general, has been cowardly not only in
matters of race but also in matters of religion. Holder’s assumptive biases clearly dictated
his priorities and actions as the nation’s “top cop.”
Holder
describes himself as an “activist” Attorney General and his activism precluded
his successful performance as “the people’s attorney” and degraded and
discolored his office into the “minority people’s attorney.” While there is nothing wrong with championing
the “underdog,” there is no excuse for ignoring concomitant protections for the
remainder of society! When it came to
matters of the law, AG Holder often had his thumb on the blindfolded lady’s
scales to tip the frame of reference from “justice” into “social justice.”
When
states passed laws requiring voter identification to insure the integrity of
the election process, Holder recasts it through his racial prism as a malevolent
form of “voter suppression.” As is his
wont, he immediately sued North Carolina when that state enacted its voter ID
law in 2013. Unfortunately, for Holder’s
Department of Injustice, black voter turnout INCREASED by 29.5% from the 2010
primary election to the 2014 primary election!
On his trip to Kenya, President Obama generously provided $53 million to
provide voter identification cards to their citizens. Undeterred, Holder still has the North
Carolina case slated for trial in 2015.
Holder
failed to show such dogged determination when “Minister King Samir Shabazz,”
the New Black Panther Party, and two other defendants were videotaped in
paramilitary garb, carrying a club, shouting profanities and racial slurs at
potential white voters at a Philadelphia polling place. Eventually, because of high level political
intervention, DOJ dropped the case even though the defendants FAILED TO SHOW in
court and were de facto guilty!
When
Arizona tried to secure its own borders because the federal government has
failed miserably in that regard, Holder’s soulful bias once again bubbled to
the surface. He saw it not as a matter
of state security but as a matter of blatant racism. Similarly, he plunged headlong into matters
of local law enforcement via the Trayvon Martin shooting. While the president mused that if he had a
son, he might look like Trayvon, he had no such musings about murderers and
suspects such as Ali Brown (four murders in the name of jihad), Alton Nolen
(stabbing and beheading one coworker and savagely stabbing another until shot
by a worker), and Jesse Matthew (suspected of kidnapping and murdering coeds). Holder has been equally silent and has yet to
dispatch an army of investigators to any of these sites as he did with the
shooting in Ferguson. Holder personally
met with protestors and the family of Michael Brown but failed to meet with the
officer involved or his family. Then
again, this is the same Attorney General who refused to identify the murder of
thirteen people in the name of Allah by Major Nidal Hasan at Fort Hood as
terrorism but chose the kinder, gentler terminology of “workplace violence” to
describe this barbaric slaughter of unarmed soldiers.
Don’t
forget that he previously arranged to have President Clinton pardon the world’s
biggest tax cheat (Mark Rich) and for Clinton to commute the sentence of 16
violent terrorists (FALN-Puerto Rico).
He’s already been held in contempt of congress regarding his
stonewalling and refusal to provide documentation regarding his “gun walking”
to Mexican drug cartels under the guise of “Fast and Furious” resulting in the
death of Brian Terry. After two years,
he has only managed a single arrest in the murder of an ambassador and three
other Americans in Benghazi. He has,
however, steadfastly protected President Obama by assiduously avoiding any
dogged pursuit of the IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative presidential
opponents. He, himself has targeted
Associated Press and Fox News reporters. He has also chosen to ignore and failed to
enforce laws on the books with which he and the president do not agree, thereby
repeatedly violating their oaths to the Constitution.
So
Mr. Holder, you are not being judged by the color of your skin (as you repeatedly
judge others) but on the content of your character, as evidenced by your
actions and lack of action. This could
have been a teachable moment rather than a polarizing term of service, so we
wish you Godspeed on your departure!
