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kooljerk666

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15. These guys are in violation of a Federal Law & even if state prosecutors..................
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:48 PM
Oct 2012

decline to prosecute.

I was on the phone all day today & spoke with Sen Jud committee for 1/2 hour, they ran out & got law books & the guy I spoke with was very interested. Sherod Browns office also listened & understood the seriousness of this law & criminal activity.

Senator Leahy & Sanders office were also both interested.

ANyone with a Dem senator on the Judiciary committee should call & demand an explanation as to why nothing is happening.

Sheldon Whitehouse would be nice to have investigating this.

Senate Judiciary Committee: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/committees.tt?commid=sjudi

The FBI also should be called, I hate to talk to them & end up on a list, but I will never get on an airplane again so I may risk the call.


This is from Dec 2012 page 46 "Grant takes on the KKK"

April 1871 Congress approved what was formally named '~ Act to Enforce the Provisions of the FoUrteenth Amendment" but in- formally dubbed the Ku Klux Klan Act. The measure allowed persons deprived of their rights under the Constitution to bring suit in federal courts (rather than state courts). It defined conspiracy to deprive citizens of the equal protection of the laws or prevent citizens from voting, and it permitted the prosecution of such conspiracies in federal courts. It also declared that when the denial of rights was so organized and egregious that it overawed state authorities, or when state authorities connived in the denial, such combinations "shall be deemed a rebellion against the government of the United States." The president was then authorized "to sus- pend the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus, to the end that such rebellion may be overthrown."
THE UW GAVE GRANT the power he sought, but it was up to him to use it. "It is my earnest wish that peace and cheerful obedience to law may prevail throughout the land and that all traces of our late unhappy civil strife may be speedily removed," the president proclaimed after its passage. Yet neither Grant's words nor the legislation did anything to sway Southern racists.



The entire article is not online.

Here are relevant links, is there a Lawyer iin the house?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1871
http://www.enotes.com/ku-klux-klan-act-1871-reference/ku-klux-klan-act-1871

I posted this in another thread & it died, am I wasting time& space or is this law relevant?
When will there be arrests in this matter? sinkingfeeling Oct 2012 #1
I hope Sproul is thrown in prison this time Warpy Oct 2012 #2
He's still at work! There was an article detailing all the work he's still doing nt flamingdem Oct 2012 #5
Strategic Allied Consulting? fleur-de-lisa Oct 2012 #3
How is that anything but evil? nt BainsBane Oct 2012 #4
Please tell me the folks whose registration forms were pitched will all be allowed to vote AND peacebird Oct 2012 #6
The local TV station covering this says that the beac Oct 2012 #10
There Won't Be Any Arrests. It Is Ok To Throw Ballots When The Secretary Of State Is ---- TheMastersNemesis Oct 2012 #7
How many times has this happened--without witnesses??? CoffeeCat Oct 2012 #8
Shouldn't be too difficult to locate victims - their names and addresses are on the forms. What's leveymg Oct 2012 #9
Isn't Rove one of the two other notables sharing the same address? 2pooped2pop Oct 2012 #11
Yes & Jill Holtzman Vogel, lawyer was involved in a lot of GOP/RNC dirt.......... kooljerk666 Oct 2012 #16
Please tell me this is illegal... whttevrr Oct 2012 #12
The Republicans need to be BUSTED for their trashing of American democracy Berlum Oct 2012 #13
kr amborin Oct 2012 #14
These guys are in violation of a Federal Law & even if state prosecutors.................. kooljerk666 Oct 2012 #15
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE Tx4obama Oct 2012 #17
I ilive 10 miles from him........hahahahahahahahahahahaha I will get a video camera & wait & follow kooljerk666 Oct 2012 #19
From AzCentral ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #18
ok, I can breath now kooljerk666 Oct 2012 #20
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