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badrose
10-01-2012, 09:36 AM
http://redalertpolitics.com/2012/10/01/as-college-student-eric-holder-participated-in-armed-takeover-of-former-columbia-university-rotc-office/

As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) headquarters with a group of black students later described by the university’s Black Students’ Organization as “armed,” The Daily Caller has learned.

Department of Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler has not responded to questions from The Daily Caller about whether Holder himself was armed — and if so, with what sort of weapon.

Holder was then among the leaders of the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), which demanded that the former ROTC office be renamed the “Malcolm X Lounge.” The change, the group insisted, was to be made “in honor of a man who recognized the importance of territory as a basis for nationhood.”

Black radicals from the same group also occupied the office of Dean of Freshman Henry Coleman until their demands were met. Holder has publicly acknowledged being a part of that action.

The details of the student-led occupation, including the claim that the raiders were “armed,” come from a deleted Web page of the Black Students’ Organization (BSO) at Columbia, a successor group to the SAAS. Contemporary newspaper accounts in The Columbia Daily Spectator, a student newspaper, did not mention weapons.

Holder, now the United States’ highest-ranking law enforcement official, has given conflicting accounts of this episode during college commencement addresses at Columbia, but both the BSO’s website and the Daily Spectator have published facts that conflict with his version of events.

Read more at Daily Caller

CitizenBBN
10-01-2012, 02:05 PM
not exactly a surprise. The Administration is filled with all sorts of people with questionable politics. Every administration has some so a few wouldn't raise an eyebrow, but it's really unclear that this background is acceptable for the Attorney General and the sheer number and extremism of those in the Obama administration is disturbing to say the least.

The equivalent "conservative" would be someone who was a member of a white supremacist group, and no way would that fly.

Small wonder he's not prosecuting the New Black Panthers if these reports are accurate.

dan_bgblue
10-01-2012, 08:16 PM
Probably sat down every night and toasted the "occupy whatever and wherever" protests with a frosty beer.

CitizenBBN
10-01-2012, 09:26 PM
Dan given that they were in part orchestrated and funded by the President's former employer and pet quasi-government entity and there's documentation the DOJ instructed city police (at least in Seattle) to back off I'd say it's a safe bet.

Slight aside, our "occupy" movement was on the radio here locally last week, claiming they weren't dead but were doing other things to create change. our movement was 6 middle class hippies down on the corner of the 5th 3rd bank building. It was hilarious. They couldn't have occupied a phone booth.