When Is President Obama Going to Ask for Calm and Sanity?

Rush had a lot of good stuff to say on this today...

RUSH: Bobby Rush went to the floor of the House today. He is a congressman from Illinois, Chicago. He went to the floor of the House today dressed in a hoodie to show solidarity with Trayvon Martin and with the Civil Rights Coalitions case, Trayvon Martin's situation. Now, there's a dress code in the House that does not include hoodies, and he was chastised and stopped from speaking. He was cut off for breaking the House dress code, and here's how it sounded.

BOBBY RUSH: Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them (gaveling) a hoodlum. (gaveling) The Bible teaches us, Mr. Speaker, in the book of... (crosstalk)

CHAIR: The member will suspend...

BOBBY RUSH: ...these words... (gaveling)

CHAIR: The member will sus...

BOBBY RUSH: These words. (gaveling)

CHAIR: The member... (gaveling and crosstalk) the member will suspend.

BOBBY RUSH: ...what is good.

CHAIR: The chair must remind...

BOBBY RUSH: What does... (crosstalk)

CHAIR: ... clause 5 of Rule 17. (crosstalk)

BOBBY RUSH: ...what does the Lord require you but to do justly... (crosstalk)

CHAIR: Member is out of order.

BOBBY RUSH: ...and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (crosstalk)

CHAIR: The member is no longer recognized. The chair will ask the sergeant-at-arms to enforce the prohibition on decor.

RUSH: He showed up wearing a hoodie. Well, he got what he wanted. He got all the attention and then tried to make the case the hoodie is a fashion statement. Now, Bobby Rush is a former Black Panther. You should know that. He's a former Black Panther. So let's now go to sound bite number 17. J. Christian Adams appeared on Fox & Friends today with Brian Kilmeade. J. Christian Adams worked in the Obama Justice Department. He was handling the case against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia when Eric Holder basically shut down the case. And J. Christian Adams -- and this is really the CliffsNotes version of this -- he resigned and wrote a book and explained what was going on.

He basically said that the Obama Justice Department had determined they were not going to pursue black defendants. Just weren't gonna do it. It was payback time now. Just dropped the case. And J. Christian Adams was handling the case and they had plenty of evidence. They coulda gotten a conviction, he thought. So he's now an expert on these matters. We've interviewed him for the Limbaugh Letter. He was on Fox this morning, Fox & Friends with Kilmeade. By the way, J. Christian Adams' book is Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department. They were talking about the New Black Panther Party bounty for the capture of George Zimmerman, and Kilmeade said, "You investigated the Black Panthers for what they were doing in 2008. That went nowhere. Why is this case with the New Black Panthers now, why is this one going nowhere or why is it slow off the mark?"

ADAMS: It's because the New Black Panthers think they're above the law. What would have given them that idea? I mean we all know the answer. The answer is Eric Holder. Look, we live in a country where lawless mobs don't offer bounties on citizens' heads to be captured. We don't live in that country, but these guys think we do. You cannot solicit kidnapping in the state of Florida. It's a felony in Florida. It's a felony to travel across interstate lines to solicit kidnapping. So here we have the New Black Panthers once again probably committing crimes and going completely unpunished.

RUSH: Unpunished? If I may interject, they're not even being pursued. They haven't been charged. We haven't gotten to the punishment stage. Nobody's even condemning this. Certainly Holder isn't, from the Justice Department, nor is Obama. But I would say that, with all due respect, J. Christian Adams is mistaken. We do live in a nation where this is happening. He said we don't live in that country. We do. He said we don't live in a country where lawless mobs offer bounties on citizens. Yeah, we do. In fact, I happen to live in the state where it's happening. Disney World is not far from where this is happening. So I must respectfully disagree. We do live in a country where lawless mobs can issue... certain lawless mobs can. Kilmeade said, "Besides Eric Holder, is there fear of inflaming race relations if you crack down on people who want to inflame race relations like the Black Panther Party?"

ADAMS: There's a fear among some, but there's no fear among people like Al Sharpton. Even the president has inserted himself in a racial way saying that Trayvon looks like --

KILMEADE: Do you think wrongly?

ADAMS: Absolutely wrongly. No president in our country's history would have injected himself into a criminal matter using racial code like Barack Obama did.

RUSH: This is a brave guy, folks. J. Christian Adams is a brave man to be saying this. A former member of the Obama Justice Department, very courageous and brave. This is not gonna sit well with the forces of tyranny. A lot of people are maybe a little surprised I'm using the word tyranny to describe what's happening to the country. I think it fits. I think it's apt. It's perfectly descriptive. A friend of mine made a point to me in an e-mail last night. I thought it was great. One of the reasons that the left in this country -- stop and think about this. The reason they're so tyrannical, tyrants never have to explain anything. They don't have to explain why they're doing anything.

Your earliest encounter with tyrants was your parents, and your parents didn't have to tell you "why" anything. They just said, "because I said so." Now, it's not considered tyranny, parent to child. It's considered child rearing. Most parents are trying to protect their kids from doing the wrong thing, teach 'em to do the right thing, and sometimes parents don't know what to say when kids go, "Why? Why?" "'Cause I say so." But when you get into adult to adult, government to citizen, they don't have to explain. Tyrants never have to explain anything. They just issue the tyranny. And if you fight back and demand an explanation, it makes it worse. You're never gonna get one because they don't have to.

Now, here's J. Christian Adams taking it right to 'em. "No president in our history would have injected himself into a criminal matter using racial code like Obama did." Everybody thinks that, but J. Christian Adams is one of the few to say it. Kilmeade finally says, "In the terms of this case, isn't it pretty clear, especially from a guy in your situation, there's much more that we'll all have to learn about this case?"

ADAMS: No question. That's what the process of law is. That's why what the Black Panthers did is so bad, because we have a system to analyze complicated facts like this. It's not a lynch mob. It's not a posse of lawless thugs. You can't solicit kidnapping under Florida law, so where's the Florida department of criminal justice on this? Where's the attorney general of Florida? Where are they? Something needs to be done.

RUSH: They're scared. They'll be called racists. I'll tell you what the attitude is. Let this play out and it will go away. That's what the attitude is. The attitude is, if we try to enforce the law here it's just going to inflame these already high tensions. Let's back off. Let's not make it any worse than it is. It'll go away. The problem with that is once you stop the pursuit of criminals, you've empowered 'em. Once you stop asserting your morality and the primacy of your law, that sends a message to people who want to break it.