Meet the US Congress' Dirty Dozen Terror Caucus

WorldNetDaily ^ | 1/26/03 | J. Michael Waller

[thinkster]

When he was governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Ridge signed the execution warrant for Muslim militant Mumia Abu-Jamal, whom a jury convicted of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in 1981.

Mumia had shot the 25-year-old policeman once in the back and point-blank in the face. A handful of congressmen, as part of a yearslong campaign to ''Free Mumia,'' assailed Ridge.

Those same congressmen likely will give Ridge an even harder time in his new post as secretary of homeland security. The most senior of them, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has been on the Mumia campaign since the start, signing letters, addressing rallies and pressuring the previous president of the United States to intervene. Conyers similarly has embraced the cause of Leonard Peltier, the convicted murderer of FBI special agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams. Conyers argues that Mumia, a Muslim African-American, and Peltier, an American Indian, are victims of a racist and bigoted system. He also sued the Department of Justice a year ago to force an open hearing for Rabih Haddad, leader of a group that U.S. officials say raises money in the United States for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist group.

[thinkster]

This story may have been posted yesterday, but I believe it needs repeating. I wrote my US Congressman to express my outrage and concern, and believe investigations into Anti-American activity are in order.

[Popof8]

For many years Rep. Conyers has been to the left of Lenin. His political views are far out of touch with those of the American principles and ethics. I think he's just dumb as a rock.

[PatriotGames]

If this Conyers is the same person I think it is, he sat on the Iran/Contra panel and DEMANDED that witnesses give the names of CIA operatives, "just for the record." Commie scumbag through and through.