Deval Patrick shills try to claim that his advocacy for Benjamin LaGuer was about justice, especially in light of the Fappiano case, but a look at his record seems to make it clear that in Deval Patrick's mind, it's not "justice," it's "just us."

While working in the Attorney General's office, Deval Patrick forced Chevy Chase Savings & Loan to open a branch inside Washington, D.C., by accusing the bank of being racist for not doing so. EaBo Clipper uncovered a 1997 speech by Senator Orrin Hatch detailing that and other excesses by Deval Patrick while he was in the Department of Justice:

...Three years ago, the President nominated another individual who was widely hailed as a pragmatist. Deval Patrick, another man for whom I have a high personal regard, was described by one paper as "a practically oriented working lawyer." Based upon those assurances, I resolved to set aside my concerns about Mr. Patrick’s views, gave him the benefit of the doubt, and supported his nomination.

But upon assuming the reigns of the Civil Rights Division, Mr. Patrick revealed himself to be a liberal civil rights ideologue. He used statistical racial imbalances and the vast resources of the Justice Department to extract race-conscious settlements from businesses and governments, large and small. For example, he undertook a credit-bias probe of Chevy Chase Savings & Loan in Maryland based largely on the fact that the bank had opened branch offices in the District of Columbia suburbs, but not in the city itself. There was no evidence that the bank had discriminated against qualified individuals seeking bank services. Nevertheless, Mr. Patrick entered into a consent decree that essentially forced the bank to open a branch in a low-income District neighborhood, and measures the bank’s compliance with the decree by assessing whether the the bank achieves a loan market share in minority neighborhoods that is "reasonably comparable" to its share in non-minority neighborhoods. Mr. Patrick’s Civil Rights Division took it upon itself to decide where a bank must do business, and then implemented dubious statistical measurements to determine whether the bank’s efforts stayed clear of the Division’s view of the law.

Hatch goes on to describe more instances where Deval Patrick's radical civil rights ideology has had dire consequences. Deval Patrick entered into a consent decree that forced Nassau County, NY "to abandon a rigorous test [to evaluate candidates for local police forces] that yielded a differential passage rate for different ethnic groups," and replacing it with a ridiculously weak test. Deval Patrick also "ordered Fullerton, California to set-aside 9 percent of its police and fire department positions for African-Americans, despite the fact that fewer than two percent of the city’s residents are black."

Looks like quite a few people have noticed Deval Patrick's "Gestapo tactics."