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| AG Holder: Lawyers are America's 'Most Effective Terror-Fighting Weapon' |
| 2011-06-20 |
| Centrist and right-of-center national security experts reacted with contempt to Attorney General Eric Holder's claim at a legal convention that the courts are the nation's "most effective terror-fighting weapon." "That's utter nonsense ... it is simply lunatic," said Ralph Peters, military analyst, author and former soldier. In the war against the jihadis, he said, the courts "have been totally ineffective when they're not outright destructive." "He's unconsciously shilling for his own profession," said Michael Rubin, a Middle East expert at the American Enterprise Institute. "Holder, like many ambitious bureaucrats, wants to build a bureaucratic empire ... [and] by doing so, he will get Americans killed." On Sunday, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell added his voice to the criticism. "The attorney general said the other night our biggest weapon in the war on terror was the U.S. civilian court system," he said on CBS' Face The Nation. " I don't know what planet he's living on." Holder's declaration came in a Thursday speech to hundreds of progressive lawyers, advocates, judges and students gathered at the American Constitution Society's annual gala. "I know that -- in distant countries, and within our own borders -- there are people intent on, and actively plotting to, kill Americans," he told his legal peers in the enthusiastic audience. "Victory and security will not come easily, and they won't come at all if we adhere to a rigid ideology, adopt a narrow methodology, or abandon our most effective terror-fighting weapon -- our Article III [civil] court system," he declared to much applause. Holder delivered his speech several months after Congress and public opinion defeated his two-year political campaigns to transfer five captured Al Qaeda leaders from the military's legal commissions to the legal profession's civilian courts, and to close the military's Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention facility. At the lawyers' convention, Holder called for an advocacy campaign that would give civil lawyers the lead role in the struggle against the jihadis. "We cannot -- and we must not -- allow the public safety concerns that all Americans share to divide us ... we must ensure that the rule of law ... must be recognized as the foundation for our continued security," he said. "Achieving this goal is our collective responsibility. And it must become our common cause," he declared to his fellow lawyers. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #14 Iff pro-OWG Commie "Globalists" don't gulag the Lawyers, Radical Islam will behead or AK47 shoot them. And will do so in the open street. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-20 22:45 |
| #13 E.g. WAFF > {MEMRI.org] > LEADING TALIBAN COMMANDER VOWS JIHAD AGZ THE WEST, OSAMA BIN LADEN'S "IDEOLOGY OF FIGHTING A GLOBAL JIHAD AGZ THE FORCES OF INFIDELS HAS PENETRATED OUR VERY SOULS". Taliban Commander Khalid Al-Khorasani, "Emir" of the TTP for Mohmand Agency. ARTIC > KHORASANI = argues that the IDEA/PREMISE that JIhadi Groups have been weakened after the death of Sheikh Osama Bin Laden is "TOTALLY BASELESS"??? Ayman Zawahiri would agree, i.e. that the Jihad is more than just One Man, even iff that man is Osama. HMMMM, HMMMMM, Ayman Zawahiri's "ALL-OUT/TOTAL WAR" + Khorasani's "GLOBAL JIHAD" = Move along, People, clearly wid the GWOT the USA + UNO are waging a MERE MINOR "POLICE ACTION", NOT MORTAL DEFENSE AGZ SOME SILLY "WAR OF ANNIHILATION" LET ALONE A COVERT REGIONAL, GLOBAL MUSLIM CONQUEST. The MilTerrs are coming to attack the irregardless off America = Amerika, the OWG Mighty USSA or OWG Weak USRoA Global SSR, espec once they acquire aysmmetric Nuke-WMDS capabilities - A EURO-SOCIALIST STYLE, US "POLICE STATE" WILL HINDER THEM, BUT NOT STOP THEM. Considering how many Euros would seemingly prefer their Nations be militarily, geopol weak = toothless, than to reform or give up STATE WELFARISM = NANNY STATE. IRONY > Will it take for the US to adopt BLOODY/VIOLENT STALINISM + TOTALITARIANISM to defeat the coming Jihad in America = Amerika??? "NUCLEAR" MILITANCY-TERRORISM IN CONUS-NORAM??? More than just a "Police State", will the US require a SECULAR SOCIALIST TOTALITARIAN "ARMY STATE" TO DETER ANDOR DEFEAT GOD/FAITH-BASED SOCIALIST TOTALITARIAN "ARMY" = ISLAMIC SHARIA STATE??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-20 22:42 |
| #12 Great, send em in first to draw fire. |
| Posted by: CincinnatusChili 2011-06-20 20:15 |
| #11 D *** NG IT, this Artic can't be right, I'm sure the trailer for USA Channel's new TV SHow "SUITS" said that a Lawyer's job is to be a Politician + "MAKE THE LAW", NOT FOLLOW OR OBEY OR SERVE, ETC. THE LAW??? Clearly someone NOT-A-LAWYER + their Cracker Jack University Law Professor(s) is confused. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-06-20 19:36 |
| #10 if he had a chin we'd call it jaw-flapping. As it is... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-06-20 19:23 |
| #9 this News wasn't Released it f**king escaped... doesn't anyone think for a second up there? "Holder's declaration came in a Thursday speech to hundreds of progressive lawyers, advocates, judges and students gathered at the American Constitution Society's annual gala." Kinda like his boss and Gen. McChrystal- they get comfortable with those of political likeness and the talk gets loose. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-06-20 19:15 |
| #8 ""He's FTFY, Mr. Rubin. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-06-20 17:17 |
| #7 Sweet Jesus, this News wasn't Released it fucking escaped... doesn't anyone think for a second up there? |
| Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where 2011-06-20 16:29 |
| #6 I had no idea! Along I was thinking it was our military. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-06-20 16:27 |
| #5 'Most Effective Terror- Another Fix! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-06-20 16:23 |
| #4 Lawyers are Terrorists' 'Most Effective America-Fighting Weapon' FIFY Yeah, I know, the truth hurts. Tough. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-06-20 16:09 |
| #3 Send them in right behind the Fighting 515th Heavy Belgian Barbers... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-06-20 15:18 |
| #2 Let's parachute America's million strong legal army into North Waziristan armed to the gills with restraining orders. This will improve both nations by providing Pakistan with much needed organic fertilizer. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-06-20 15:13 |
| #1 Sorry, buddy, but I'm letting my money ride on SEAL Team Six. I'll bet your boss is too, even if he'd never admit it... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-06-20 15:10 |