"Black Panthers" Intimidate Voters With Billy Clubs At Polls

Voter intimidation-nothing more and nothing less. Who wants to bet that the "Black Panthers" are not hanging around with billy clubs outside of polling sites to encourage support for McCain?

Associated Content reports:

Things got a little tense in Pennsylvania when two men dressed as Black Panthers stationed themselves outside a Philadelphia polling place. One of the so-called Black Panthers was brandishing a nightstick.

According to one bystander, a Republican poll observer, interviewed by Fox News, the "Black Panthers" made their intentions very clear:

"We got a phone call that there was intimidation going on. I walked up to the door, two gentlemen in Black Panther garb, one brandishing a nightstick, standing in front of the door. They closed ranks as I walked up. I am a veteran; that does not scare me. I went inside and found poll-watchers, they said they had been here for an hour — I went inside and found poll-watchers, they said that they had said not to let people outside because black people are going to win no matter what. At that point, I spoke to him, we would not get into a fistfight, I said, and I called the police."

The police arrived and escorted the "Black Panther" with the nightstick off the premises.

The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a violent militant group that as active in the late 1960s and 1970s espoused a Marxist/Maoist philosophy as a means to further black liberation and black power. Their reputation for violence during that era was exceeded only by the Weather Underground. Author David Horowitz has claimed that the Black Panthers were responsible for over a dozen deaths and conducted illegal enterprises such as prostitution, extortion, and drug trafficking.

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