Cowardice Redefined

            I am beginning to experience a severe dislike for Attorney General Eric Holder.

             Holder once said, "I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us." Now he refuses to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law banning recognition of same sex marriage, because he thinks the law is unconstitutional. Just where does Eric Holder stand on his sworn responsibility to uphold the law?

          Holder also once said, " Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." How does this fit with his refusal to cooperate with the Civil Rights Commission's investigation into a 2008 incident in which New Black Panthers  intimidated voters outside a polling place in Philadelphia?

            If I recall correctly, the 15th Amendment to the Constitution says, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."         

            When challenged, Holder said, "...to compare what people were subjected to [in the South in the 60's] to what happened in Philadelphia...does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all, for my people." So the Black Panthers will not be prosecuted because of the brutal treatment of blacks during the Civil Rights protests of the60's?

            I am so naive: I thought the Attorney General of the United States was the nation's principal advocate for ALL the people of this country.

            So who is the coward now?