Discoloration by Design

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!