Men dressed as Black Panthers brandishing nightsticks, blocking entrance to PA polling location [Updated with more video]


Update: This hasn’t been limited to a single polling location, nor apparently a single state. The video below shows the nightstick-wielding man from the FOX news report, and there have been reports of Black Panther wannabes intimidating voters from as far away as Tennessee.

Perhaps this is what Sen. Obama was referring to when he boasted of a civilian homeland defense force during his campaign?

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FOX News is reporting that two men dressed in Black Panther attire were blocking the entrance to a Pennsylvania polling location this morning, with one brandishing a nightstick. Poll watchers inside the building had reportedly been told not to let anybody in because “the black man is going to win no matter what.”

A Republican volunteer called the police, who removed the man with the nightstick. When FOX News arrived, the remaining man in Black Panther garb, who is reportedly an authorized poll watcher, accused FNC of intimidating voters, according to reporter Rick Leventhal, “because we were here with a camera and microphone.”

Video below the fold, along with more updates.

Police used to be stationed at polling locations to prevent intimidation and fraud; however, as John Fund mentioned in today’s Wall Street Journal, the all-caring Government (with assistance from left-wing advocacy groups) has since seen to it that police no longer appear at the polls because they “are now viewed as intimidating.”

Black Panther wannabes, though? They’re not intimidating at all.

Update-11/4@1302CST: Courtesy of Election Journal, the video below shows police responding to the Philadelphia Black Panther voter intimidation.

Update-11/4@1519CST: Local Philadelphia news outlets are picking up the story, even though some national networks like CNN aren’t doing so yet.


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Anecdotal but hey, good news...

Aaron Weatherford (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 12:55PM EST (link)

I stood in line next to a union man. He was telling everyone about how he is normally out working the polls handing out literature on election day and this is the first year he will not be doing that. He said they could not get enough volunteers to make it worth their while and they did not think they would sway any voters.

This was in a suburb of Kansas City.

Can Obama count on the union votes?

“My friends, it is coming to my attention that a great number of you are fearful of an Obama win. I must stress that you have nothing to fear from Obama winning the election as I have the greatest confidence he would be a most benevolent dictator.” – Hopefully John McCain

 

Why am I not surprised

KarenIndiana (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 12:58PM EST (link)

Obama’s entire campaign has full of lies, deciet, fraud and intimidation. Why should today be any different?

 

GREAT NEWS FROM James Pethokoukis

PaRep (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:04PM EST (link)

Exactly what I am afraid of!

mywrite Tuesday, November 4th at 1:04PM EST (link)

Why am I not surprised? Well, there have been complaints and Barack Obama as a leader never came out and reprimanded his thugs and so black folks were just waiting in the wings to do what they damn well please and so my people the same chickens that Jerimiah Wrong spoke of will now be coming home to roost and those folks who think that they are supporting Barack Hussein Obama, if they think they are protected just because…. they have another thought coming. I am a black person and I have always been very afraid and I am even moreso now, but I am also a prayer warrior for McCain /Palin and I know that despite all the evil and dishonesty at the hands of the Liberals, they will be the VICTORS and I say this without compunction.

 

Get video...

izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:11PM EST (link)

…of thugs. Go up and ask them who they are with and what their names are….most will be stupid enough to tell you…
if they ask who you are videoing for – just tell them it’s for a documentary about how great this election is!!!
You are telling the truth. – Then post it on YouTube and show the truth.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 

I would love someone to try and "intimidate" me

DavidSage (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:14PM EST (link)

I always here about intimidation happening in the voting line, usually it’s union thugs.

Is it really smart to try and intimidate the same people who are life members of the NRA?

 

Philadelphia DN & Inquirer papers

uglyandproud7 Tuesday, November 4th at 1:16PM EST (link)

Did an article on him last week and promoted him, here’s him calling for the war on whites, whatnot, totally great read:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/33491864.html

“I’m about the total destruction of white people. I’m about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy. . . .”

THIS GUY IS AN OFFICIAL POLL WATCHER!>>!>

dan – south philly

 

An Obama Admission

ace Tuesday, November 4th at 1:19PM EST (link)

This shows that the Obama campaign knows the truth about PA—he is going to lose it.

I wonder if there is going to be a response to these “poll watchers”.

Maurice Austin

uglyandproud7 Tuesday, November 4th at 1:19PM EST (link)

is his name, heres his myspace

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm…ndid=398533400

dan – south philly

 
 

Rush also reports that GOP poll watchers in Philly were

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:20PM EST (link)

kicked out of voting precincts in violation of a court order after same happened in the past.

Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Well, so much for racial harmony...

izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:21PM EST (link)

Obama is the one DIVIDING the country and keeps bringing up race. We will have an UNENDING CIVIL unrest when he becomes president because OBAMA keeps pushing on race inequality. We do not need a president who looks at race and who favors one race.
We need a president who is skin color blind!!!! Now, I know why there is SO MUCH hatred during this election. THE ONE WORD THAT SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT OF OBAMA’S VOCABULARY IS RACE!!!! And anything related to it.

The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.

 
 

They are just following BO's orders

Common_Cents (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:23PM EST (link)

They are just following orders.

“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.“ -Obama

Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from, behind, the Back Nine.
Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.

Good news indeed.

scottbomb (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:27PM EST (link)

I’m praying it holds true for the remainder of the day.

www.HowObamaGotElected.com

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” – Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

 
 

[Burned an account for this?]

braden Tuesday, November 4th at 1:27PM EST (link)

[By the way: normally I just would have banned you for the conspiracy theory sneer; but I'm deleting your comment entirely because he spells his first name "Barack", dude. - Moe Lane]

“I’ll follow him to the gates of hell”

 

These are Americans?

KarenIndiana (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:30PM EST (link)

I am ashamed to share the title of being and American with the likes of these.

If I had come across these thugs and were going to vote for Obama, it would change my mind in a heartbeat and vote for McCain. Maybe those actually being intimidated by these low lifes will think that too!

Go back to wherever you came from

Terilyn Donaldson (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 1:34PM EST (link)

We do not need people like you around here. It’s obvious you’re scared and trying to chase conservative away from voting.

We will win today!

SURVIVING IN WYOMING…


 
 

Is this what the lady on Hannity meant?

gekster (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 2:01PM EST (link)

Is this Obama getting his “Thugthistle on?”

They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.

We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway

Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved

 

Best Thing To Happen To McCain

DavidSage (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 2:02PM EST (link)

Can you imagine a white swing voter waiting in line and seeing a black panther with a billy stick?

Guess which way their vote just swang?

These guys should be getting paid by the Republican Party.

 

Obama's New Civilian Guard

Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 2:07PM EST (link)

I wonder how white working class PA is responding to clips of Obama’s new civilian guard.

Not Swing - Proabably Go Home Though

Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 2:12PM EST (link)

I bet thousands of white union Democrats from South Phillie are sitting in some bar and saying to themselves “screw Obama”. I’ll just sit this one out.

 
 

This is sad!

mywrite Tuesday, November 4th at 2:15PM EST (link)

We think it is bad now, just wait and see and that’s why the balck folks of this nation most of them will not even mount to a hill of guano. They have this attitude that the ‘white man’ is keeping them back and the ‘white man’ is evil and the list goes on and on. I am a black person who migrated from the Caribbean, I graduated from the University of Cambrige and London U as did my husband, we came here and are both successful and you know what, we thank the ‘evil white man’ wholeheartedly because they embraced us and helped us to be where we are today and it was no thanks to the ‘brothas’ and ‘sistas’ of this country. I just never understood the mind set of most of these folks who have the oppurtunity to do right and do well, it is totally mind bogling to me and there they are being assinine
again.

This election has just proven to me again how unread and uneducated these people are and no amount of black presidents would change them, it is so sad, because of their gross stupidity they are their own worst enemy and they do not even know it. If Barack Hussein Obama wins this election, it would be by dishonesty and thuggery and absolutely nothing good can come out of that. Nothing! Black folks especially will be worse off and that’s Mywrite!

Trolls, don’t try to attck me claiming race because I am black and I have a problem with the blacks who represent my pignmentation and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Just take a look around………

 

Hypocrites.

kingfish Tuesday, November 4th at 2:17PM EST (link)

I live in Mississippi. Can you imagine the outcry if a redneck was sitting there in front of the voting booth with a stick in the same manner?

 

oops!

mywrite Tuesday, November 4th at 2:17PM EST (link)

Attack!

 

From now on...

JLenardDetroit (Diary) Tuesday, November 4th at 5:31PM EST (link)

We need to make sure the Guardian Angels (need a group that promotes actual calm, lawfulness, actual protection to any/all, and courtesy), Boy Scouts (bet those Panthers would be no match for their brains and knot tying ability), and Girl Scouts (Fight hatred with cookies) are out monitoring Elections.

Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
“Liberals, looking to do for? America what they’ve done for? Detroit! which is DESTROY IT!”
“I think, therefore I am Conservative”
“Conservative by choice, Republican by necessity”
“You can lead a Liberal to the Truth/Facts, but you cannot make them THINK!”
“Romney [No, not my first choice] does NOT have a MORMON problem. He has a, far too many Americans; these days; are MORONS problem!”


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Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
The first Liberal was Satan” – a Rush caller (other Quotes)

 

Remain Calm Folks

NotBetty Tuesday, November 4th at 6:11PM EST (link)

Is there any evidence that the Obama campaign had anything to do with these two? He has run a very careful campaign, and I doubt he would be this stupid at this juncture as to send out Black Panthers to intimidate people. Besides, as the Army Vet implied, they could be intimidating to all kinds of people, including Obama supporters. I think they were (unwisely) acting on their own. The police took care of it, end of story.