Misgiving #1 - The betrayal of a former "leader"
This morning I woke up with a freshness I rarely have on a Monday morning. I actually looked forward to going back to work after my Thanksgiving break, vacation in Texas and the road trip there and back. See, I have the fortunate gift of working a job I actually love to do. Yeah, I smile when I walk in the office. But then I read an article on Fox News.com this morning (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176858,00.html) and read that despite to the systematic assassinations of Saddam Hussein's lawyer team, Saddam's been blessed to land the biggest fish of all.
This lawyer has great credentials, including founding the International Action Center and defending some of the most notorious war criminals in history, as well as advising Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic.
Not to put a bad taste in your mouth for defense lawyers, but here's a few more items on his resume:
- He successfully summoned the United Nations to hold an inquiry of the alleged war crimes committed by NATO in the war of Kosovo.
- In 1998 this high-power lawyer attended (and keynoted) a "human rights" convention in Baghdad, Iraq and declared to the enemies of Democracy that "the governments of the rich nations, primarily the United States, England and France... showed little concern for economic, social and cultural rights." Stick it to the man, and earn a good living as well.
- In the 90's he traveled to Belgrade. While there advising the Milosevic team, he earned an honorary degree, telling his colleagues "It will be a great struggle, but a glorious victory. You can be victorious!"
- Traveled to Grenada to advise the defense team of Bernard Coard, who assassinated Prime Minister Maurice Bishop.
- Defended Karl Linnas, an ex-nazi concentration camp guard, overseeing the extermination of 12,000 Jews and resistance fighters.
- Defended Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, Rwandan leader accused of telling Tutsi's to hide in his church, then summoning Hutus to their whereabouts; they were later massacred in their hiding place. Later the Pastor was discovered leading killing squads through the chaos that followed that year.
- Was quick to cheer on the brutal Chinese repression of the indigenous culture in Tibet (which sent the Dalai Lama and 80,000 refugees packing).
- Clark represented PLO leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the elderly tourist who was shot and thrown overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise-ship by renegade Palestinian terrorists in 1986.
- At an Oct. 26, 2002 IAC rally he referred to President Bush's foreign policy as "criminal offenses, they are high crimes, they are indictable offenses, and they are impeachable offenses." And this was even before the 9/11 commission's findings of faulty intelligence.
Instead of being marginalized as an extremist from a young age, this man has managed a very impressive road of professional success, and is considered among the more respectable minds in America regarding criminal law and especially war crimes. As well he should be, considering he was once the U.S. Attorney General during the mess that was the Vietnam War under President Lyndon Johnson! That's right, Mr. Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, now defending the worst of mankind's criminals. Once prosecuting the laws of this most precious system, he now vilifies the system he hates before the world.
Mr. Clark has very little support in America for his views. Perhaps by coincidence if not by common sense, detractors from both the right and the left denounce Clark for his "straightforward dishonesty," calling him the "tyrant-in-chief," a "traitor" and "the war criminal's best friend".
It's one thing to disagree with your leadership about policy, it is quite another to actively seek rebellion against the nation it leads and it's very principles, joining in arms with the scabs of humanity in resisting the change of Democratic reform in dens of terror.
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country."
- Theodore Roosevelt
If you have any concern or conscience for your nation, then keep in mind how important it is to know the future trajectory of those we appoint to high office. This is my misgiving, that America can appoint a radical man of such heartless (and mindless) ideology to an office that commands the respect of men under law.
The rest I'll leave up to you, below I've left some of the links (among many) that bookend the background of this "leader" in law.
How did this man make it through the system? Maybe he was Kissinger's back pocket ace all along.
Of course, defense lawyers on Saddam's team are becoming more scarce these days.
Mr. Clark please beware: Apparently the Iraqis don't like your new employer all that much either.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176858,00.html
http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/1999/06/21/clark/
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29524
http://www.angelfire.com/az/sthurston/NeighborhoodBully.html
posted by Mr. Ed at 9:03 AM
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Mr. Ramsey's father (Tom Clark) was a supreme court justice. LBJ told Tom Clark that he wanted to appoint a black justice to the Supreme Court and that he wanted to appoint his son Ramsey to be Attorney General. LBJ said he could not appoint Ramsey AG if Tom was on the Supreme Court due to conflict of interest. So, Tom Clark quit the Supreme Court so his son Ramsey could become AG. LBJ then appointed the first black supreme court justice, Thurgood Marshall.
So, LBJ played Tom Clark against his son to get what he wanted. Otherwise, Ramsey Clark would never have been AG.
This is well documented in LBJ's paper's.
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Yes, and I am very aware that these dealings and back room stratgies are constantly at work. Here's another site that discusses that escapade:
http:// www. nytimes. com/books/first/w/williams-marshall .html
What a deal, you know? In four years, we got Medicare, Medicaid, a $500 billion war, tens of thousands dead and on top of all that traitor Ramsey Clark... icing on the cake: a liberal justice that sat on the court for the next 20 years.
Here's an individual who either just follows the money or his moral standard is different then everyone else. Milosevic committed systematic genocide on his own people. How can you honest defend an individual of that nature. Now, Saddam has killed almost twoce as many people as Milosevic has, either he's just for the money or his moral standard is different.
his moral standard is different. I don't believe he spoke at all these conventions and makes company with die hard communistic organizations because of the money. He's devoted the rest of his life's work to defeating the idea of American liberty and our democratic system.
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