Lawmakers Warn $1.2 Billion Payout to Black Farmers Rife With Fraud

Census data reflects 33,000 African-Amercian farmers; 94,000 claim discrimination

From Fox News:

A handful of Republican lawmakers is warning against Congress approving a massive discrimination settlement that passed the Senate last week despite concerns the claims process may have been marred by thousands of potentially fraudulent applications.

Just before breaking for Thanksgiving recess, the Senate approved by voice vote a $4.6 billion package to settle claims against the government by black farmers and American Indians. The payments to black farmers account for $1.2 billion of that amount but have been the subject of intense criticism.

Lawmakers raising alarm about the payments say whistleblowers from the Department of Agriculture have come to them in confidence to warn that the money is going to claimants who don’t deserve it.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/23/lawmakers-warn-billion-payout-black-farmers-rife-fraud/#ixzz16tzkOcXj

Media Censors Racially Motivated Attacks in Harrisburg

A string of vicious racially motivated attacks in Harrisburg, PA are being censored by the media.  Whites are targeted and brutally beaten by groups of blacks gang candidates. Each time, the media calls it a “gang initiation” by “youths.”  The FACT of these horrific crimes is that ALL of the victims are white and ALL the perpetrators are black, but all mention of race is censored.  If the races were reversed certainly the Department of Justice (DOJ) would already be working with local law enforcement and it would be the biggest news story in the United States.  Yet this story is quarantined to minor local coverage with all mention of race censored in every article.  Developing…

Read the story here in the Patriot-News.

 

Wondering Why Stephen Colbert Testified Before Congress Today?

Hint: It likely has nothing to do with Stephen Colbert’s “expertise” or the subcommittee he testified before.

Instead, consider this. Christopher Coates, former chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division, happened to be testifying before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights about the New Black Panthers voter-intimidation case today. He’d been instructed by DOJ officials to ignore the subpoena he’d been issued.  Coates decided to ignore the DOJ demand that he  ignore the subpoena.

All of a sudden Stephen Colbert was requested to “testify” before congress on the same day.

Coincidence?

You decide.

Here’s a bit of Coates’ testimony from NRO Online:

Despite warnings from the DOJ, federal prosecutor Christopher Coates today testified before the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, appearing, as Chairman Gerald Reynolds put it, “at great personal risk to himself.”

Coates’ testimony backed up testimony given by fellow voting-rights prosecutor J. Christian Adams, including the charge that political appointees in the Obama administration spiked the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party.

The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged “race neutral” enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. Coates told the panel that the culture intensified in 2009 – and led to his demotion from leading the voting rights division – after President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office.

“They have not pursued the goal of equal protection of the law for all people,” he said.

[. . .]

Coates accused the Justice Department of caving in to outside influence groups, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which he said demanded that prosecutors drop the case. “Many of these groups act…as special interest lobbies for racial and ethnic minorities and demand not equal treatment but enforcement of the Voting Rights Act only for racial and language minorities,” Coates said.

The outcome of the New Black Panthers Party case, he said, confirmed his concerns that his superiors are interested only in protecting minorities.

When he objected, Coates said, the Justice Department tried to silence him, part of what he called “the hostile atmosphere that has existed within [Justice’s Civil Rights] Division for a long time against race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.”

Read the rest here: Coates Testifies at Civil Rights Commission

Here’s information on both events:

Coates testifies before Civil Rights Commission. 3 hour video on PJTV

Federal Prosecutor Accuses Justice Dept. of Reverse Racism Washington Times

Prosecutor Alleges Department of Justice Bias Politico

Stephen Colbert’s prepared testimony.

Stephen Colbert Testimony “Sad,” a “Joke,” Says Congressman Jason Chaffertz (R-UT) CBS News

Stephen Colbert: Highlights from his House Testimony – WSJ Speakeasy

update: Stephen Colbert to Testify Before House Immigration Subcommittee Friday The Daily Caller –contains the backstory

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Anita MonCrief to File FEC Charges Against Obama Administration

Things are getting a whole lot more interesting.  ACORN whistle-blower Anita Moncrief held a press conference Friday at the Right Online Convention in Las Vegas and announced that she will press FEC charges against the Obama Administration for the campaign’s illegal coordination with ACORN during the 2008 election. See an interview with her on BigGovernment.com.

She has also created a website EmergingCorruption.com that will focus on fraud and corruption in ACORN and affiliated groups. Anita has already posted the Obama Donor List on the website.

Way to go, Anita!

We’ve linked to EmergingCorruption.com in the blogroll.

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