Posted on 01/23/2002 5:32:14 AM PST by TopQuark
Ramsey Clark's bloody resume
http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com -- MURDEROUS thugs of the world, rejoice. Once again, Ramsey Clark has come to your aid - whether you want him or not. Now, if only Clark would permanently move himself and his "Terrorists 'R Us" law practice to a sand dune outpost in Kandahar, we'd all have something to cheer.
Last weekend, the former U.S. Attorney General under Lyndon Johnson and his anti-war buddies filed a court petition on behalf of more than 100 terrorism suspects challenging their detention at Guantanamo Naval Base. According to Clark's neo-Stalinist front group, the International Action Center, the U.S. is violating the detainees' human rights by not providing them with basic amenities such as "adequate clothing, underwear and footwear;" "fairly priced food, soap, tobacco and ordinary items;" and "complete latitude in the exercise of religion."
Photos and reports from Camp X-Ray show just the opposite. We're bending over backwards to accommodate these unlawful combatants. For example, to assist detainees in the practice of their religion, base officials posted a helpful sign in Arabic pointing to the direction of Mecca. How do the al Qaeda fighters return the favor? The Miami Herald reports that one detainee, who deliberately faced away from the sign, used Muslim prayer time to exhort his troops.
When they're not "praying," the detainees chow down on "culturally appropriate" meals three times a day. Several have been visited by Red Cross workers. And each detainee has received an orange jumpsuit, sandals, a canteen, sheet, blanket, and shampoo.
What, no conditioner? No goose down pillow? No dry cleaning? Oh, the brutality.
In addition to steam baths and pedicures, Ramsey Clark and Co. want "due process" for the al Qaeda operatives whom they claim are prisoners of war covered by the Third Geneva Convention. But no serious reading of international law allows the al Qaeda detainees to be defined as POWs. They did not fight with readily identifiable military uniforms; did not carry arms openly; and have no reciprocal respect for the laws of war.
No matter. Clark's agenda is neither peace nor justice. It is terrorist ambulance-chasing. He is far less concerned with freeing the innocent than with allying himself with America's enemies at every turn - the gorier, the better. This is the man who:
This is normal for democrats nowadays.
Bingo. I don't know why he still lives in America if he hates it so much.
Of all the things you could be mad at Lyndon Johnson for, giving this guy legitimacy by appointing him AG has got to be in the top ten. Without that title, Clark would be just another communist crackpot with a law degeree, and his only claim to fame would be his father's tenure on the Supreme Court.
Osama's quoted as saying something like, "when a woman sees a weak horse next to a strong horse, she always chooses the strong horse"?
The detainees couldn't have been made to look more humiliated - shaved, bond, gagged, head bowed and on their knees. In one they were all down and had their pants pulled half way down their butts. There's symbolism in that. Worse yet, one photo included a blond babe standing guard over them in kind of a dominatrix pose. All that's the epitome of disgrace to young Muslim men.
I think the Bush administration wanted this media circus to carry the message past the Muslim censors and into their world that we're bigger and "badder" than these terrorist p~ssys and we're not afraid to show it.
If that's believed, recruitment will be all but impossible.
Of all the things you could be mad at Lyndon Johnson for, giving this guy legitimacy by appointing him AG has got to be in the top ten. Without that title, Clark would be just another communist crackpot with a law degeree, and his only claim to fame would be his father's tenure on the Supreme Court.
And even LBJ, if I recall correctly, thought Tom Clark was an incompetent justice. (Though you have to consider the source, on that judgment!)
I heard Clark speak in my hometown, when I was a teenager (1976?). He was calling for transpancy in government -- no secrets. I think I told him (I know I thought it), that I'd love to have him as a neighbor, but I wouldn't want him running things. Little did I know at the time, that he was just for American transparency, the better for our enemies to destroy us! Considering his support for Saddam Hussein, I don't know that I'd call him a communist, as opposed to an all-purpose totalitarian.
That could be said about a host of Demonrats, couldn't it?
Hillary Clinton, for instance, without the "Senator" and "ex-First Lady" title would be just another Communist thug killer with a law degree....
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