Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) breathed a little bit of life into a fringe idea that President Barack Obama will order that all black criminals not be prosecuted in the U.S.
Kobach made the comments Sunday in response to a caller on the Kris Kobach Show.
“Word is going to come down that there just won’t be any prosecutions of black criminals and I can see it happening,” the caller said, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal. “I don’t think I’m nuts for envisioning it.”
Kobach seemingly didn’t think the caller was completely nuts either.
“Well, it’s already happening, more or less, in the case of civil rights laws,” Kobach said in response. “So I guess it’s not a huge jump. I think it’s unlikely but, you know, I’ve learned to say with this president never say never.”
Kobach’s response referred to a November 2008 case in which two members of the New Black Panther Party were accused of voter intimidation at a polling station. The charges were later narrowed and then were dropped by the Justice Department. As a result, conservatives accused Attorney General Eric Holder of mishandling the case.
The caller said Holder’s mishandling revealed a larger plot by the Obama administration to protect black criminals from prosecution.
“We’ve already seen it from Eric Holder in his failure to prosecute the Black Panthers who, a strong case could be made, there was certainly enough to charge them with voter intimidation but that case didn’t go anywhere because the attorney general elected to ignore it,” the caller said.
“Well, he did more than ignore it,” Kobach said in response. “He basically made it true and gave us a clue, through various public statements that the civil rights laws were only to protect minority races and he was not going to be enforcing them to the benefit of white people who are discriminated against on the basis of their race.”
Wow.
Hey Mr. Kobach, just drop all the pretense and appear at your next news conference in full KKK Regalia OK?
The hood and robes will make you more comfortable.
I’m sure you don’t, but fortunately for the nation, practically everyone else does.
Is there any way TPM can manipulate the Intertoobz so that only people who vote in Kansas can see articles related to Kobach and Brownback? Because, despite all the evidence available in November, 2014, those numbskulls re-elected both of them. I see no reason why the rest of us should suffer for their dumbfuckery.
Kobach is just a Koch-sucker with a BA.
Because, as we all know, in the white reactionary universe, only white, right wing nut jobs are allowed to intimidate voters.