It can be very discouraging to fair minded folks to hear some of the outlandish things people are willing to say
in this media environment, where accountability and shame seem to be passé, some relic from an America era where common experience bound us together. I will group in this category the claim that
various government officials are “racist,” as I attempted to explain in a recent Pajamas
Media piece I do not believe to be true. Refusing to enforce the law in a race neutral fashion is not necessarily racist, though I can see why it is attractive to reject my
argument.

At the same time, it is unfortunate to hear similarly unhinged arguments from others – like unsupported attacks
(incidentally lobbed by a former DOJ voting official who himself was the subject of a racial discrimination complaint against him – but I will devote a future article to that later) and the
terrifying development that one’s veracity can be judged by where they fall on the political or ideological spectrum. Those of us who have read the Nobel Prize winning Gulag Archipelago by Alexander
Solzhenitsyn recognize this disturbing psychological tactic.

“Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once
proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle,” he notes.

Truth exists apart from political views, identity and race. But I recognize much of the intellectual history of the
west over the last 50 years has sought to eradicate this philosophy, but again, an article for another day.

Hans von Spakovsky has  "http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTA4M2NmNzY5N2FkZGEyMGI4ODkwNjYyNzgxYTAzMDQ=">this article at National Review about the New Black Panther case. The Lie du Jour among many on July
12 was that somehow the Bush administration was to blame (the record keeps skipping Hazel) for not bringing criminal charges against the New Black Panthers. Among many other points, Spakovsky
notes:

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Will the Holder Justice Department lodge an objection to a plan that prohibits people from being able to vote, and that a Federal court has already held was evidence of an illegal intent to racially discriminate?  Ike Brown, the Chairman of the Noxubee County (MS) Democratic Executive Committee has made a submission to the Justice Department.  The […]

Roger Clegg and Sharon Brown have a piece in the Sunday LA Times – “Felons Have Lost Their Right to Vote.”   Clegg notes that Congressional legislation enacted in the last 20 years expressly included provisions recognizing felon disenfranchisement: “For example, both the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of […]