Warrior for law and order shares the good and bad news from the Trump DOJ at Restoration Weekend.
FrontPage Mag
12/13/2017
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Editor’s note: Below are the video and transcript of remarks given by J. Christian Adams at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2017 Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 16th-19th at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida.
J. Christian Adams: I’m going to talk to you today about what’s going on at the Justice Department, is the topic of my talk, and of course, if you tune into Fox News on any given day, that seems to be the lead story. So I’m going to talk a little bit about that. Many of you have been asking me this weekend what’s going on at the Justice Department, and I told you, wait until Sunday and we’ll cover it in great detail.
When I was at the Justice Department, I learned that the Justice Department has so much power over so many things. If you’ve been to the pool, you’ve seen the chair that goes in and out of the pool, that’s a Justice Department mandate. Civil rights, elections, on and on. It is the fulcrum upon which Obama and Holder initiated a radical transformation of the country. Everything went through the Justice Department, and that’s why it’s so important.
When Holder dismissed my New Black Panther case in 2009, a few months after they were sworn in, those of us working at the Department began to see this radical transformation taking place, just starting at the time. And you didn’t think it was possible, right? You didn’t think that, okay, the men with billy clubs in front of a poll, and you bring a case and the case is dismissed, but you also didn’t think they would keep going. And frankly, the New Black Panther case, with the benefit of hindsight, was just the beginning of a radicalized transformation of, frankly, the United States.
Holder and Obama institutionalized this radicalism at the Justice Department. They made it not radicalism to the people who work there. To the people who worked there, my colleagues, this was simply this new, enlightened way of thinking. It was progressivism meets power, and that’s what you saw over the course of 8 years. They turned the law into a relativist, racialist, radicalism, and that’s what we saw time after time after time. Now, I’m here to tell you about what’s happening now. What has happened the last 10 months since the inauguration, and it’s a mixed bag, and we’ll go over some mixed things that are going on and some bad things that are going on still. But first the good news. I put at the top of the list the fact that Eric Holder’s war on cops is over. It’s done. Those of you who have read my book, it’s like listening to a Louie Gohmert talk though, which is very hard to follow by the way. There are so many fanciful, farcical things that are totally true that you can’t believe it’s actually happening, and it gives you an insight into how nuts some of these people were. For example, when I was at the Justice Department under Obama, they actually hired an organization, Northeastern University, to do police sensitivity training. Now I’m not done with this. One of the consultants working for this organization to do police sensitivity training — and by the way, they charged you, the taxpayers, a million dollars to produce these materials. One of the women who worked for this organization was Angela Davis. Do you remember this? And of course Angela Davis is the communist who probably was involved in the murder of a judge in California, but this is the sort of world we lived in under Eric Holder, where federal tax money was moving to an organization, that has as part of its staff Angela Davis, to train police officers. That’s the world we’ve left under President Obama.
Another good thing that has happened since the inauguration, “sue and settle” is over. What do I mean by “sue and settle”? You guys got to give the progressives credit, they’re geniuses when it comes to leveraging power. What Obama instituted was a series of lawsuits at DOJ against, for example, financial services companies, for redline mortgaging, or other housing firms for discrimination in mortgage lending. And they would extract these gigantic settlements out of these corporations, and they would require the corporations to set aside millions of dollars for a slush fund that would then be used by progressive organizations. Just think about that. They would leverage federal power to fuel their far-left allies, and that’s what they did for 8 years and Jeff Sessions ended it. Immediately terminated the program, so “sue and settle” is over, good.
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