Holder Expands Ferguson Witch-Hunt

eric-holder-finger-in-airDespite the continuing absence of any evidence whatsoever that race was a factor in the police shooting of Michael Brown, the Department of Justice will be conducting a race-baiting witch-hunt aimed at the entire police force in Ferguson, Mo., Attorney General Eric Holder announced yesterday.

The new investigation is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded Democratic Party voter registration drive disguised as a civil rights investigation. Such hoaxes are the stock in trade of the radical community organizers who run the Obama White House. Statistics, by the way, suggest Ferguson is far from the hotbed of crime the media has portrayed it as. Ferguson reportedly has an average level of crime.

“When I visited Ferguson two weeks ago, I promised that the U.S. Department of Justice would continue to stand with the people there long after the national headlines had faded,” Holder said, according to the text of prepared remarks. Egged on by violent left-wing mobs and racial tension profiteers like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr., federal officials were already conducting what will almost certainly prove to be a fruitless civil rights-centered investigation of Brown’s death.

Today, with our investigation into the Ferguson Police Department and our reform efforts in St. Louis County, we’re taking significant steps to keep that promise,” Holder said. “As these efforts unfold, my colleagues and I will keep working with the people in Ferguson to ensure that a fair, thorough investigation occurs; to see that dialogue can be translated into concrete action; and to facilitate lasting, positive change – that brings together police officials, civil rights leaders, and members of the public – to bridge gaps and build understanding.”

Except perhaps for what some critics said was an initially heavy-handed and overly militaristic approach to crowd control used by Ferguson police, there is no evidence much, if any, change is actually needed in the St. Louis-area township.

To repeat, this expanded federal investigation of a local incident has absolutely nothing to do with justice and everything to do with electoral politics. Although at least 40 federal agents have reportedly been on the ground in the St. Louis area desperately searching for proof of racial animus on the part of Darren Wilson, a decorated Ferguson police officer who shot Brown Aug. 9 after the 18-year-old suspected gang member beat him and tried to take his handgun, such evidence remains elusive.

That figure of 40 agents is apparently more than the Obama administration has assigned to all the other major scandals embroiling the administration combined. Those other scandals include Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi bungling, IRS persecution of conservative groups, New Black Panther Party voter intimidation charges, the Fast and Furious gun-running episode, and the NSA’s domestic spying.

All the racial grievance-community organizing complex currently has to go on is the fact that the decedent was black and the policeman was white.

It is, of course, no coincidence that the investigation was announced as President Obama’s approval rating with the public dipped to record lows. At an anemic 38 percent according to Gallup’s three-day rolling average, it is now descending into President Nixon territory. Obama is anxious to change the conversation to issues that don’t matter like raising the minimum wage and income inequality.

The announcement of an expanded federal investigation in Ferguson comes three weeks after the race-baiting members of the far-left Congressional Black Caucus demanded a federal lynch mob be assembled to put the mostly white Ferguson police department in its place.

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio), who heads the CBC, Reps. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), and John Conyers (D-Mich.) demanded the political persecution of Ferguson cops because in their view Brown’s killing “may be part of a continuing pattern of the use of deadly force by police against unarmed African-Americans.”

Brown’s shooting raises “potentially serious concerns” about law enforcement in St. Louis, the lawmakers wrote. Holder’s Department of Justice should take over the probe because, they claim, the St. Louis County Police Department “may not be the most objective or credible body to investigate civil rights matters involving law enforcement given evidence of racial profiling by that department in the recent past.”

“Only the federal government has the resources, the experience, and the full independence to give this case the close scrutiny that the citizens of Ferguson and the greater St. Louis area deserve,” the letter said.

While Brown’s body was still warm, Democrats set up a voter registration booth where Brown died, as if the suspected gang member were some kind of martyr. They are now trying to leverage his death nationally for partisan purposes.

“This is going to go past Ferguson,” said John Gaskin III, a spokesman for the St. Louis County, Mo., NAACP and a member of the group’s national board of directors.

“What I’ve told people is I want them to be aware that there’s a Ferguson near you, near every city,” he said. “I don’t think people will run out of steam on this one.”

Holder’s announcement also comes days after Brown was laid to rest following a grotesque political rally led by the abominable racial arsonist Al Sharpton.

The politically correct lie that a helpless 6’4″ 292-lbs. Brown was shot in cold blood, arms raised while attempting to surrender to white police officer Wilson, instead of the less convenient truth that Brown was beating the cop while reaching for his gun, refuses to die.

In the minutes before he attacked Wilson, Brown was captured on video bullying a much smaller East Indian shopkeeper during a robbery, an act that some might consider a hate crime.

The image of a huge robber manhandling a much smaller victim won’t run out of steam anytime soon, either.

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  • Hank Rearden

    Holder is a two-time loser on this.

    The facts are not going to go anywhere. And he is highlighting his unfitness for his job.

    By his own statement, his grievance with America is that he was stopped an unstated number of times on the NJ Turnpike when he was a college student. Oh, the humanity. How fast were you going, Eric?

    • Sheik Yerbouti

      IF it’s true, he owes those nasty old racist cops for his career!

      • Hank Rearden

        great picture!

    • Well Done

      Not only was he, likely, speeding, but I’m sure his plate came back as belonging to some jumped-up rich kid who spent an inordinate amount of time on campus rabble-rousing, occupying buildings, and making various stupid, idle threats.

  • DaCoachK

    I am sure the Left is happy. With Eric “My people” Holder as Attorney General, we have yet another Federal Government intrusion into areas it has no business intruding into. The Left-Wing-Kooks love him, as he is down with the social justice agenda, which translated means “Get YT at every turn.”

  • Bamaguje

    Given that there’s no similar Justice department investigation into the much more common Black-on-White crime, this witch-hunt might actually be a good thing for the GOP.
    Many White Democrats may begin to question their loyalty to the race hustling party. Republicans can then capitalize on the opportunity to attract alienated White Democrats – a much larger electorate than the Black votes Democrats hope to win by fanning the embers of racial discord.

  • Libslayer

    If nothing else, this reveals that the democrats have NOTHING to run on this fall.
    Holder is a greasy pig.

  • Dallas25305

    What a surprise that the “coward” Erica Holder the most corrupt and racist attorney General in history turns this farce into a black lenching of white Police Officers. Don’t elect another President who went to a church of Black Power Hate for 20 years and was raised outside the U.S. as a Muslim. Now the anti white hate and the hate for the country shows for anyone with a brain to see what this lying, bigoted and corrupt man is doing.

  • Gee

    I think that the investigation is in the wrong city. The Justice Department – especially the Attorney General must be investigated for the violations of most American’s civil rights

  • jon

    I would not urinate on Holder if he were on fire. Disgusting he is!
    Sooooo, rioters are the new face of the dem party? A good fit!

  • Crassus

    Holder is a malignant mulatto who hates all white people because he wants to be accepted as white and knows that will never happen.

  • trapper

    The irony is that Holder is from an immigrant family. He does not have slave ancestors.

    • Well Done

      From the Caribbean, and likely from the MidEast before that, though I don’t have the facts in front of me. I just don’t think he has any more African blood than has Woody Allen.

  • carpe diem 36

    Well, Holder finally found something to do, something that may put his name on the “map”. As if only one black 18 year old was ever killed in this big country. He is shown as a pretend powerful man-of-justice, someone who is not afraid to go into the “war zone” and bring justice to this miserable town.
    I wonder what those others scores of mothers whose kids were killed in various places, like Chicago, every weekend, who wonder why they are so neglected by our Dear Holder. Are their children less deserving? Of so, why???

  • https://twitter.com/LibsHateUs Ban Liberals

    Simply put, Holder ought to be jailed for this.

    • WhiteHunter

      Holder ought to get the same kind of “justice” he has in mind for the cop who fired in self-defense at the hulking thug who otherwise would have killed him: Why bother with a trial? Just find a rope with a noose in one end, and a stout tree branch to throw it over.

  • truebearing

    Holder probably already knows that this is a waste of taxpayer money, at least from a prosecutorial perspective, but he knows that it has great impact on the psyches of white policemen all over the nation who will fear such federal persecution. This is all about intimidating whites, while riling up blacks.

    Holder is not an enforcer of law, he is an enforcer of the black mob.

    • Softly Bob

      Spot on my friend, spot on.
      Hopefully, Holder will one day swing from the gallows.

      • Well Done

        I think it would be fair to give the rude little booger a choice; he can pay back the taxpayer’s money wasted on his little race-based crusades, or we can spend a few more bucks to stretch his neck long enough to fit his arm with the famous finger extended.

  • John Adams

    Almost 2000 years ago the famous Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero
    gave the following speech warning his nation of treason:

    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely,his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of
    government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents
    familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he
    appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the
    soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the
    pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer
    resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

    How coincidental that this speech could have been given today as it describes Eric Holder, Obama & Hillary Clinton et al.perfectly.

  • Antiliar

    The black Bull Connor…Bull Holder.

  • s;vbkr0boc,klos;

    Black Ferguson is MOSTLY cute little single family homes. There is one
    drug and gang infested housing project in one corner of the town that
    is the source of everything bad. Otherwise, Ferguson has AVERAGE crime
    rates for St. Louis County. The highly competent Ferguson police force
    has been invaluable in protecting the black home owners of Ferguson.
    Not only this one officer’s record SPOTLESS but the Ferguson police record is a PROUD ONE and the black homeowners and working people of Ferguson appreciate them! Insane that the A.G. of the U.S. is a THUG.

  • William

    Ferguson police have a terrible history of racism and bad relations with the black community. Holder may clean up this PD, but it’s one of hundreds who have problems with racist cops and corruption.

    • Painted Horse

      Well there’s certainly no racism or corruption in the Justice Dept. or the White House to clean up so why not?

    • AbsolutelyRight

      In other words the Ferguson Police enforced the law against lawless thugs and now the race hustlers want to cash in and evil progressive putzes like yourself want to jump on the hate cops band wagon

  • guyjones

    Excellent article, but, the statement “In the minutes before he attacked Wilson, Brown was captured on video bullying a much smaller East Indian shopkeeper during a robbery…” needs to be corrected to reflect more accurately the nature of the criminal conduct that Brown was engaging in, to wit, assault (fear of imminent battery) and battery itself (unlawful physical contact).

  • Elizabeth capecod

    This is a disgusting abuse of authority and tax dollars. Why isn’t holder investigating the shooting of an unarmed white boy, 20-year-old Salt Lake City resident and father-to-be Dillon Taylor, by a black cop??!!

    Piece of crap!!

  • Pete

    Black Gang Brutally Beats White Couple

    conservativebyte.com/2014/09/black-gang-brutally-beats-white-couple/

    WTF is Attorney General Eric Holder?

    Oh, right, being as racist as he want* to be!

  • LibertyWriter

    We all know who the real criminals are. The ones who cannot walk the streets alone.