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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"7"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8607725711334997403"},"published":{"$t":"2011-01-16T23:07:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-17T15:52:43.436-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"investigative"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Governor Christie's Dirty Islamist Ties"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"New Jersey, the Garden State, has just taken its first step toward becoming the Sharia State, with Governor Christie's nomination of Sohail Mohammed, an attorney to detained terrorist suspects, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County. The Sohail nomination continues Christie's unfortunate pandering to the American Muslim Union and the Islamic Center of Passaic County. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/TTOpXxWtR2I\/AAAAAAAAET0\/RwkcypVtR9Q\/s1600\/New-jersey-governor-christie-on-the-political-rise.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/TTOpXxWtR2I\/AAAAAAAAET0\/RwkcypVtR9Q\/s320\/New-jersey-governor-christie-on-the-political-rise.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EPassaic County \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/archive.frontpagemag.com\/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30030\"\u003Ehas the second largest Muslim population in the country\u003C\/a\u003E. And the Islamic Center of Passaic County is the state's largest mosque, and it's the only one run by an an Imam who was a member of the Hamas terrorist organization. But when the United States government attempted to deport Mohammed Qatanani, New Jersey's pols and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/762\/ice-intelligent-competent-enforcement-not-quite\"\u003Ewannabe pols like Christie\u003C\/a\u003E, quickly came to his aid. Despite the fact that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/archive.frontpagemag.com\/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31225\"\u003EMohammed Qatanani\u003C\/a\u003E was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that is behind both Al Qaeda and Hamas, despite his own guilty plea \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2008\/04\/new-jersey-imam-is-member-of-hamas.html\"\u003Eto being a member of Hamas\u003C\/a\u003E, and despite the fact that even in the United States, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/homeland-security-appeals-qatanani-ruling\"\u003Ehe had defended a charity \u003C\/a\u003Ethat provided funds to children of suicide bombers (this is done as an incentive to reassure terrorists that if they die their families will be taken care of), Qatanani was not deported. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is less a sign of his innocence, than of the power and influence \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.familysecuritymatters.org\/publications\/id.92,css.print\/pub_detail.asp\"\u003Ewielded by Qatanani\u003C\/a\u003E and the American Muslim Union. There was hardly a top New Jersey public official who did not come out for Qatanani. And that included both of the major candidates in the governor's race, Governor Jon Corzine and Chris Christie. \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/njjewishnews.com\/njjn.com\/091108\/njImamPraisesJewish.html\"\u003EChristie called Qatanani\u003C\/a\u003E, \"a man of great goodwill\" and \"a constructive force\" and allowed Charles McKenna, one of his associate attorneys to testify on behalf of Qatanani. Afterward \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/post_143.html\"\u003EChristie tapped McKenna\u003C\/a\u003E to head New Jersey's Department of Homeland Security. McKenna had spent a good deal of time on Muslim \"outreach\" and made numerous statements echoing their talking points.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe pioneering terrorism researcher, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/njjewishnews.com\/njjn.com\/091108\/njImamPraisesJewish.html\"\u003ESteve Emerson called it\u003C\/a\u003E, \"a disgrace and an act of pure political corruption\". He stated, \"I know for certain that Christie and the FBI SAC had access to information about Qatanani’s background, involvement with and support of Hamas.\" Defending Qatanani required Christie to pit himself\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/homeland-security-appeals-qatanani-ruling\"\u003E against the Department of Homeland Security\u003C\/a\u003E, which wanted him deported. But the Department of Homeland Security wasn't running for office in New Jersey. Christie was. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first Imam of the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.investigativeproject.org\/case\/402\"\u003EIslamic Center of Passaic County\u003C\/a\u003E, Mohammad El-Mezain, was convicted of funneling money to Hamas. El-Mezain had actually boasted of raising almost 2 million dollars for Hamas. And his replacement, Qatanani, actually was a member of Hamas. An ordinary politician might have been forgiven for not knowing this, but Christie was the US Attorney for New Jersey. It's absolutely impossible that he would not have known the background of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/archive.frontpagemag.com\/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30030\"\u003Ethe Islamic Center of Passaic County\u003C\/a\u003E. Yet Christie attended a Ramadan dinner, in the same place where terrorists had fundraised, and kissed Qatanani on the cheek. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow Christie has \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?pid=bl\u0026amp;srcid=ADGEESgYgRNzLxgcowUmtb7H5gMbBw1XMoc4p3b6k0VXVVUzzDQEHZC_E9zKhv0wndj5y22ILhWiWGmnnTf2D8wTwne3z9jFZIsl6ymT12UslvLhqKZcKOVNGEChWgVuAzuj40othVTS\u0026amp;q=cache:TaA2y95EUp0J:dng.northjersey.com\/media_server\/tr\/2008\/08\/29imam\/summationfinal.pdf%20mohammed%20qatanani%20sohail\u0026amp;docid=a917cc93757f87f93cae97135e696bba\u0026amp;a=bi\u0026amp;pagenumber=80\u0026amp;w=797\"\u003Enominated Sohail Mohammed, Qatanan's former lawyer\u003C\/a\u003E, to a Superior Court judgeship. Sohail Mohammed is a board member of the\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2004\/03\/dhimmitude-in-new-jersey-jewish-groups-lend-legitimacy-to-radical-muslims.html\"\u003E American Muslim Union\u003C\/a\u003E, an organization that has \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2004\/03\/dhimmitude-in-new-jersey-jewish-groups-lend-legitimacy-to-radical-muslims.html\"\u003Einterlocking leadership with groups\u003C\/a\u003E that have fundraised for Hamas and hosted a Hamas speaker. The American Muslim Union is closely interlinked with Qatanani's Islamic Center of Passaic County.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/TTOpiZIuP1I\/AAAAAAAAET4\/x-1S86yj9wo\/s1600\/Qatanani.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/TTOpiZIuP1I\/AAAAAAAAET4\/x-1S86yj9wo\/s320\/Qatanani.jpg\" width=\"227\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EWhen five Muslims were convicted of plotting to murder US soldiers at New Jersey's Fort Dix, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2008\/12\/american_muslim_groups_decry_f.asp\"\u003EAmerican Muslim Union\u003C\/a\u003E president, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2008\/12\/american_muslim_groups_decry_f.asp\"\u003EMohamad Younes\u003C\/a\u003E, came out in their defense. When El-Mezain, the original Imam of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, was convicted, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/archive.frontpagemag.com\/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30030\"\u003EYounes claimed that he had only\u003C\/a\u003E been convicted because he was a Muslim. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/archive.frontpagemag.com\/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30030\"\u003EICPC and the AMU shared five members\u003C\/a\u003E in their leadership, which essentially makes them one and the same. Nominating an AMU board member is an indirect payoff to the Islamic Center of Passaic County's own leadership... and to Mohammed Qatanani.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/ajacksonian.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/lawyer-to-terrorist-suspects.html\"\u003ESohail Mohammed\u003C\/a\u003E defended suspected terrorist detainees and was the go-to man for local and national media looking for a good quote. He lobbied against the use of both 'Islamic' in descriptions of Islamic terrorists, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/barenakedislam.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/14\/nj-governor-chris-christie-nominates-a-muslim-lawyer-who-represented-islamic-terrorist-suspects-for-superior-court-judgeship\/\"\u003Econdemned the television show\u003C\/a\u003E 24 for depicting Muslim terrorists and made an appearance outside the Qatanani trial. After the massacre of a Coptic Christian family, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/minx.cc\/?post=110224\"\u003ESohail Mohammed tried to have some Copts\u003C\/a\u003E investigated for opposing Muslim attendance at their funeral. And most importantly, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/viewer?a=v\u0026amp;q=cache:V2tM9gP2AmQJ:dng.northjersey.com\/media_server\/tr\/2008\/08\/29imam\/GovernmentSummation.pdf+sohail+mohammed+icpc\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;gl=us\u0026amp;pid=bl\u0026amp;srcid=ADGEESgTZI3inpDJvDkSOBr6w_ioM4e3MMqAZy2ELh3Ea2jIKMsXUTBgP0Xf1LdXe50Hh68Nkn6Ds1a6WTaAtoJx7l0wzTWdWhy0G4FK-iXa1kTDsIaePC1cjWAMzyV15KG7rXQfd8qG\u0026amp;sig=AHIEtbTd6d3YbfcsT1pPfmINNHyMWG1aXQ\"\u003ESohail Mohammed was Qatanani's original lawyer\u003C\/a\u003E when the government began its case against him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo after helping Mohammed Qatanani escape deportation, Christie then nominated his lawyer to a Superior Court judgeship. Sohail is the second Muslim Superior Court judge in New Jersey after Hany Mawla. And if you want a preview of New Jersey's future, you can see it in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9uVyjaaKb2k\u0026amp;feature=related\"\u003EJudge Hany Mawla conducting the swearing in ceremony\u003C\/a\u003E for Mayor Mohamed T. Khairullah in Passaic County's Prospect Park borough. And the opening prayer for the event is delivered by none other than \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mcvpg1SU4l4\u0026amp;feature=player_detailpage\"\u003EImam Qatanani, leading a prayer in the name of Allah\u003C\/a\u003E.  \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere's still an American flag in place and the pledge of allegiance is recited, but those are symbols masking the hijacking taking place underneath the red, white and blue.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere have been setbacks. The Democratic party had to dump Sami Merhi, when some of his comments sympathetic to terrorists came to light. But his friend Mohamed T. Khairullah made it through. A critical flyer mailed out to local households was described as a hate crime and exploited by the media for the sympathy vote. Corzine and the local Democratic machine moved Hawla from a civil rights commissioner to a superior court judge. They put Sohail Mohammed on the same track. Christie could have stood up to the Democratic machine, but instead he sucked up to Passaic's Islamists, first by aiding Qatanani and then by nominating his lawyer to a Superior Court Judgeship. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome might compare the situation in Passaic County to France with its \"no go zones\" where the local authorities and non-Muslims cannot enter, but it's actually a good deal worse. The government and the judiciary is being taken over, small pieces of Muslim ruled territory are being carved out and expanded with the support of the state's leading politicians, who trade political support and campaign contributions for something dangerously close to treason. It's not just New Jersey. America is being carved up this way, piece by piece. The areas with the highest Muslim population like Illinois, Michigan and New Jersey are ground zero for the Islamist hijacking of America, using front groups, media friendly spokesmen, lawyers, leadership training and the slow climb up the ladder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/TTOp9l-qgTI\/AAAAAAAAET8\/FPLc2kH-r9o\/s1600\/qata.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/TTOp9l-qgTI\/AAAAAAAAET8\/FPLc2kH-r9o\/s320\/qata.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIf you wondered why Governor Christie intervened in the Ground Zero Mosque issue or why a New Jersey state employee who participated in a protest against the mosque by burning a few pages from the Koran, lost his job-- you were only seeing the tip of a very large iceberg. In Muslim heavy states such as New Jersey, politicians and law enforcement have been largely suborned. In their attempt to co-opt Muslims, they instead have been co-opted by them. Who is really working for whom? Decide for yourself.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen American Muslim Union president Mohamed Younes was detained in Dubai, he knew exactly whom to call. The deputy director of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.militantislammonitor.org\/article\/id\/2107\"\u003ENew Jersey's Office of Homeland Security\u003C\/a\u003E who offered to vouch for him. Now remember Younes was a member of the board of trustees of a mosque that had conducted fundraising for terrorists and whose Imam had been convicted of raising money for terrorists. But none of that mattered. No more than the IPCC's history mattered to Christie. The very same \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.militantislammonitor.org\/article\/id\/2107\"\u003ESohail Mohammed boasted \u003C\/a\u003Ethat the deputy director of New Jersey's Office of Homeland Security is \"someone we can call 24\/7\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs this what the people of New Jersey really want in their officials? It doesn't matter, because they're not being given a choice. And that's the worst part of it. Whether you voted Corzine or Christie, you still ended up with a politician who was in bed with the IPCC and the AMU and who was going to nominate Sohail Mohammed to a Superior Court Judgeship. And that denotes a profound level of corruption that should cause intense scrutiny for any elected official from the Garden State who tries to run for national office. That includes Governor Christie who fought one brand of corruption, but surrendered to another, who was willing to stand up to the teacher's union, but not to the terrorist's union."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8607725711334997403\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2011\/01\/governor-christies-dirty-islamist-ties.html#comment-form","title":"32 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8607725711334997403"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8607725711334997403"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2011\/01\/governor-christies-dirty-islamist-ties.html","title":"Governor Christie's Dirty Islamist Ties"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/TTOpXxWtR2I\/AAAAAAAAET0\/RwkcypVtR9Q\/s72-c\/New-jersey-governor-christie-on-the-political-rise.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"32"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-3863582715840036502"},"published":{"$t":"2009-05-26T21:45:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-30T23:35:33.766-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"investigative"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Judge Sotomayor and Five Million Criminal Votes for Obama"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"There are 5.3 million votes for Obama out there, the only problem is that they happen to belong to murderers, rapists, armed robbers and other convicts and ex-convicts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/Shya7jnYNqI\/AAAAAAAAB5U\/FDLwUEJIvE4\/s1600-h\/fe1888a2658e8afa910c027483ca5d50.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/Shya7jnYNqI\/AAAAAAAAB5U\/FDLwUEJIvE4\/s320\/fe1888a2658e8afa910c027483ca5d50.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThat golden box of 5+ million votes is being unlocked by Democrats in one of two ways. The first relies on changing state laws that prevent felon voting at the state level. Their greatest success has arguably been Florida, a crucial swing state with over a million ex-felons. When Governor Charlie Crist promised to let criminals vote during the election and then implemented it once in office, the impact on the 2008 Presidential election was quite sizable.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith anywhere from 250,000 to 500,000 new votes available, the Obama campaign ran a \"You can Vote Too!\" registration drive for ex-felons. And since Obama won Florida by barely 200,000 votes, the newly enfranchised murderers, rapists and pedophiles no doubt \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.politicalbase.com\/news\/push-to-register-felons-to-vote-could-aid-obama\/136739\/\"\u003Edid their share\u003C\/a\u003E to help put him in the White House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIowa restored felon voting in 2005, and between 2004 to 2008, swung from Republican to Democratic. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2007 Colorado struck down the requirement that ex-felons have to at least complete their parole before becoming eligible to vote, overriding a Colorado Supreme Court ruling. In 2008 Colorado voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate for the first time in 26 years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EVirginia, which also \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/16\/AR2008061602535.html\"\u003Ebegan legalizing felon voters\u003C\/a\u003E, became another swing state that swung unexpectedly to Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile legalizing felons alone did not swing any of these states, they were part of a larger program to liberalize the voting base, which is why such laws were invariably championed by Democrats and Liberal Republicans. Bringing in millions of new votes changes the game. And that was what happened in 2008.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever giving criminals voting rights on a state by state level has been a long slow process, and that is where the second method comes in, to strike down any bans on felon voting at the Federal level.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe key argument used by felon voting advocates is that barring criminals from voting is a form of racial discrimination, since a disproportionate number of convicted felons are black or members of other minority groups. This brings in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into the picture. Using the VRA, the Supreme Court could potentially strike down any state laws banning criminals from voting. Even convicts still in jail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThis would immediately unlock that golden box of 5 million votes for Obama, even more than local state measures of ACORN's voting fraud, which relied heavily on ex-cons, did.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ShyarXbkC9I\/AAAAAAAAB5M\/-c_io59JSNw\/s1600-h\/gitmo_600.1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ShyarXbkC9I\/AAAAAAAAB5M\/-c_io59JSNw\/s320\/gitmo_600.1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAnd the Voting Rights Act is where Judge Sotomayor comes into the picture. While the Supreme Court currently has not chosen to hear any cases involving felon voting, allowing state circuit courts to maintain the ban, Judge Sotomayor is an enthusiastic judicial advocate of applying the VRA to felon voting, treating criminals as a discriminated against group being denied their civic rights.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/moritzlaw.osu.edu\/electionlaw\/litigation\/documents\/04-3886-pr_opn.pdf\"\u003EHayden vs Pataki\u003C\/a\u003E, a case brought by \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/americanradioworks.publicradio.org\/features\/voting\/c1.html\"\u003EJoseph \"Jazz\" Hayden\u003C\/a\u003E, who stabbed a sanitation worker to death, and has since become a campaigner for letting felons vote, Judge Sotomayor dissented from the majority by arguing that the VRA in no way excludes or was meant to exclude felons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge, dissenting:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"It is plain to anyone reading the Voting Rights Act that it applies to all “voting\u003Cbr \/\u003Equalification[s].” And it is equally plain that § 5-106 disqualifies a group of people from voting. These two propositions should constitute the entirety of our analysis. Section 2 of the Act by its unambiguous terms subjects felony disenfranchisement and all other voting qualifications to its coverage.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat that means is that Sotomayor believes that any voting qualification, including bans on having convicted murderers and rapists vote, is a violation of the Voting Rights Acts. Felons can be treated as a \"group\" that has been discriminated against by being banned from the right to vote.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis would allow Obama to \"crack\" more conservative states where felon voting enfranchisement has not made any headway, by treating felon disenfranchisement as a violation of the Voting Rights Act.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy nominating Sotomayor, Obama is very clearly looking ahead to 2012, by first nominating an Hispanic Woman, secondly a left wing judicial advocate, more specifically one whose views on ballot access will help open up that golden box of millions of votes, and in the case of a Bush vs Gore type Supreme Court case, will always argue on the side of inadequate access.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd of course Sotomayor's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/openjurist.org\/352\/f3d\/582\/ford-v-mcginnis\"\u003Eruling in Ford vs McGinnis\u003C\/a\u003E that Islamic rights for prisoners can be entirely at the whim of the prisoner, can't hurt. Nor her open position that her job is to make policy, rather than rule on the constitutionality of the laws.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cobject height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OfC99LrrM2Q\u0026amp;color1=0xb1b1b1\u0026amp;color2=0xcfcfcf\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;fs=1\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\u003E\u003Cembed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OfC99LrrM2Q\u0026amp;color1=0xb1b1b1\u0026amp;color2=0xcfcfcf\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;feature=player_embedded\u0026amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike Obama her nomination is being treated as a \"historical nomination\", though Justice Benjamin Cardozo was arguably the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice (who naturally doesn't count because he's Jewish), and her judicial advocacy views, her \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/26\/sonia-sotomayors-greatest-hits\/\"\u003Eidentity politics\u003C\/a\u003E, will be treated as assets, in the same way that they were for Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the bigger picture is that Sotomayor is meant to be Obama's ace in the hole for the 2012 election."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/3863582715840036502\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2009\/05\/judge-sotomayor-and-five-million.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3863582715840036502"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/3863582715840036502"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2009\/05\/judge-sotomayor-and-five-million.html","title":"Judge Sotomayor and Five Million Criminal Votes for Obama"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/Shya7jnYNqI\/AAAAAAAAB5U\/FDLwUEJIvE4\/s72-c\/fe1888a2658e8afa910c027483ca5d50.jpeg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6399837341350006567"},"published":{"$t":"2009-02-24T21:30:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-03-08T15:19:27.607-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"investigative"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Chas Freeman: \"Help the Shiites win fast, consolidate their damn dictatorship and get the hell out\""},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/SendMail.aspx?print=print\u0026amp;type=0\u0026amp;item=130066\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E's proposed appointment to head the National Intelligence Council\u0026nbsp; is already getting lots of scrutiny. A former Saudi lobbyist \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2009-02-24\/likely-obama-appointee-had-bin-laden-ties\/\"\u003Ewho did business \u003C\/a\u003Ewith the Bin Laden group, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mererhetoric.com\/archives\/11275471.html\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E has naturally spewed more than his share of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/news\/article\/2009\/02\/24\/1003237\/potential-intel-boss-peddled-text-accused-of-bias\"\u003Ebile toward Israel\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.saudi-american-forum.org\/Newsletters\/SAF_Interview_01_2003_09_12.htm\"\u003Etoadying toward the\u003C\/a\u003E Saudi kingdom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SaShEbRt38I\/AAAAAAAABeo\/yekTEkfj9Dc\/s1600-h\/FreemanPictures+319.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SaShEbRt38I\/AAAAAAAABeo\/yekTEkfj9Dc\/s320\/FreemanPictures+319.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAfter 9\/11, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/yidwithlid.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/obamas-proposed-spy-chief-publishes.html\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E sought to do business with the Bin Laden group and responded to critics by saying that  Bin Laden was still “a very honored name in the kingdom [of Saudi Arabia]\". He's called Hezbollah a legitimate outgrowth of Lebanese nationalism and denied that it was an Iranian puppet. He \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/blogs.jta.org\/politics\/article\/2009\/02\/22\/1003185\/more-info-on-freeman\"\u003Ebragged about his million dollar donation\u003C\/a\u003E from the Saudi King to fund his organization, which he used to publish Walt and Mearsheimer's article attacking the \"Jewish lobby\". These days he's pushing for a \"One State Solution\" in Israel, code for the destruction of Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMuch of this has already been effectively laid out by s\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/melaniephillips\/3380291\/a-weapon-in-the-islamists-armoury.thtml\"\u003Euch as Melanie Philips\u003C\/a\u003E. There is however a lot more I have learned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChas Freeman is co-chair of the US China Policy Foundation and the American Iranian Council, with offices in Iran, holder of the Order of Abd Al-Azziz, 1st Class. He is also board chairman of Projects International Inc, a company that facilitates all sorts of projects, particularly in Saudi Arabia.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd even more significantly, Chas Freeman is on the\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/draft.blogger.com\/goog_1235518683818\"\u003E \u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"hidden\" style=\"display: inline;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/businessweek\/research\/stocks\/people\/person.asp?personId=10636447\u0026amp;capId=33407647\u0026amp;previousCapId=1038362\u0026amp;previousTitle=CNOOC%20Ltd.\"\u003EInternational Advisory Board of China National Offshore Oil Co\u003C\/a\u003E. CNOOC is a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CNOOC\"\u003EState owned enterprise\u003C\/a\u003E , controlled by the Chinese government. As such Chas Freeman \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/google.brand.edgar-online.com\/DisplayFilingInfo.aspx?Type=HTML\u0026amp;text=%2526lt%253bNEAR%252f4%2526gt%253b%28%22CHAS%22%2c%22FREEMAN%22%29\u0026amp;FilingID=6013581\u0026amp;ppu=%2fPeopleFilingResults.aspx%3fPersonID%3d4429243%26PersonName%3dCHAS%2520FREEMAN\"\u003Ehas openly worked for\u003C\/a\u003E both Saudi Arabia and the People's Republic of China.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan id=\"hidden\" style=\"display: inline;\"\u003ECNOOC \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.irrawaddy.org\/article.php?art_id=14498\"\u003Edid business pretty\u003C\/a\u003E much the way you expect a Chinese state owned company to do business, with large scale pollution, intimidation and evictions. And CNOOC \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu\/article.cfm?articleid=1240\"\u003Ehas designs on snapping up American oil \u003C\/a\u003Ecompanies, so it can do business in the US. This closeness between Chas Freeman and the People's Republic of China has translated into Freeman ruthlessly doing their propaganda for them.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis puts into perspective the Weekly Standard's revelation that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2009\/02\/the_realist_chas_freeman.asp\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E sent out a message saying that China did not go far enough in the Tiananmen Square Massacre \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ESuch folk, whether they represent a veterans' \"Bonus Army\" or a \"student uprising\" on behalf of \"the goddess of democracy\" should expect to be displaced with despatch from the ground they occupy. I cannot conceive of any American government behaving with the ill-conceived restraint that the Zhao Ziyang administration did in China, allowing students to occupy zones that are the equivalent of the Washington National Mall and Times Square, combined. while shutting down much of the Chinese government's normal operations. I thus share the hope of the majority in China that no Chinese government will repeat the mistakes of Zhao Ziyang's dilatory tactics of appeasement in dealing with domestic protesters in China.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis has been covered, but I present some more of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/02\/23\/controversy-surrounds-possible-appointment-freeman-nic-chair\/\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E's Greatest Hits that have yet to be covered. Here's the view that Obama's nominee to head the National Intelligence Council offered to Rolling Stone when asked \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/74.125.77.132\/search?q=cache:fGTAeNGISEMJ:www.informationclearinghouse.info\/article17270.htm+%22chas+freeman%22+bin+laden\u0026amp;hl=en\u0026amp;ct=clnk\u0026amp;cd=32\u0026amp;gl=us\"\u003Ewhat to do about the War in Iraq\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EA panel of experts convened by Rolling Stone agree that the war in Iraq is lost. The only question now is: How bad will the coming explosion be?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChas Freeman: The most efficient way to avoid mass killings is to \u003Cb\u003Ehelp the Shiites win fast, consolidate their damn dictatorship and get the hell out\u003C\/b\u003E. The level of anarchy and hatred and emotional disturbance is such that it's very hard to imagine anything except a Saddam-style reign of terror succeeding in pacifying the place.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClear on that? The man who will be advising the White House on the world situation, favored setting up an Iranian backed dictatorship in Iraq, and then quickly withdrawing. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd we're just getting started.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/politicalmavens.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/22\/marty-fiddles-over-durban-while-chas-freeman-gets-ready-to-run-nic\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E became the darling of the left wing by repeatedly attacking the US war in Iraq, including repeatedly ridiculing the claim that Saddam had weapons of Mass Destruction. However before the US invasion, Chas Freeman delivered a speech claiming that if we attacked Saddam, he would use \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/alt.politics.europe\/browse_thread\/thread\/bd013e4ce26506e5?q=%22chas+freeman%22#f27860feb1ccf18a\"\u003Eweapons of mass destruction\u003C\/a\u003E against us... while implying that 9\/11 was justified because we had attacked Bin Laden's homeland.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EFormer U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman, in a recent speech, warned that the U. S. could expect an eye-for-an-eye response: \"\u003Cb\u003EOne lesson of September 11th that we need to recall more than any other is that if we attack someone else's homeland in this day and age, we can expect that our own homeland will be attacked\u003C\/b\u003E. We know that if we attack Saddam he will use weapons of mass destruction in whatever way he can. We don't know, however,what preparations he's made.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course this was par for the course as \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/131843.html\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E had all but gone into business \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.saudi-american-forum.org\/Newsletters\/SAF_Interview_01_2003_09_12.htm\"\u003Ewhoring for the Saudi \u003C\/a\u003EKingdom.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EI would say that the last two years, as we mark the anniversary of September 11th, have seen a major deterioration in the atmosphere and tone of the U.S.-Saudi relations broadly written, even as the two governments have continued a fairly cordial and cooperative relationship.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe irony is that both Washington and Riyadh have ended up defending the value of the relationship and the quality of the relationship against, frankly, often very ignorant and uninformed, but malicious attacks from their own publics. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaturally \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/tag\/chasfreeman\/index\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E was also against expecting any reforms in Afghanistan \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/forums\/PrintPost.aspx?PostID=13586\"\u003Efor the rights of women\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EChas Freeman, president of the Middle East Policy Council and a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We need to recall the reason we went to Afghanistan in the first place. … Our purpose was to deny the use of Afghan territory to terrorists with global reach. That was, and is, an attainable objective. It is a limited objective that can be achieved at reasonable cost. We must return to a ruthless focus on this objective. We cannot afford to pursue goals, however worthy, that it contradicts or undermines it. The reform of Afghan politics, society and mores must wait.” \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut lest you think that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.meforum.org\/blog\/obama-mideast-monitor\/2009\/02\/chas-freeman-appointment-not-final.html\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E's relationship with the Saudis is monogamous, he has a long history of being equally willing to write hosannas to the People's Republic of China. From justifying the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2009\/02\/the_realist_chas_freeman.asp\"\u003ETianamen Square Massacre\u003C\/a\u003E to constantly attacking Taiwan, Chas Freeman proved all too willing to serve \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobalist.com\/storyid.aspx?StoryId=6179\"\u003Eanother brutal dictatorship\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ESometimes, for example, in the matters of Taiwan, Tibet or the democracy movement in Hong Kong, Americans are enlisted by lobbyists acting on behalf of separatist or dissident movements in greater China. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENaturally the only \"separatist\" movements \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.taiwandc.org\/nws-9846.htm\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E seems to support are those backed by Iran or Saudi Arabia. Taiwan, which actually is a separate country,\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy2000.org\/transcripts\/t_freeman.html\"\u003E need not apply\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApril 19, 2000:  Chas Freeman argues that Taiwan has provoked a crisis,and that unless it reverses course, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/soc.history.war.misc\/browse_thread\/thread\/8461884e5936e215?q=%22chas+freeman%22#ce7a24dc99ad1d39\"\u003EChina and the US are headed for war\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EMr. Freeman:   But you see, Les, I don't agree that those are the issues because I think that there is virtually zero prospect of Taiwan gratuitously provoking Beijing with a declaration of independence. I think the question before Taiwan now that has been put clearly by Beijing is \"Are you prepared to reverse course from the declaration of independence, without using that word, that you have already pronounced. And if you are not prepared to reverse course.   If you adhere to the view that you are entitled to be treated by the international community and by other Chinese as a separate state then the consequences of that will be the use of force.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E... The Chinese are quite capable of negotiating solutions of issues that are very difficult and being patient.   And the saddest thing here is that their counterparts in Taiwan have not allowed them to exercise that patience.   Just consider the example of the difference between Indian actions in taking Goa by force and Chinese actions in waiting decades to negotiate a peaceful retrocession of Hong Kong.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishblogging.com\/blog.php?bid=181281\"\u003EChas Freeman\u003C\/a\u003E's twisted worldview, China is to be praised by not invading by force. But what else should one expect from a man who penned the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mepc.org\/whats\/MaoZedong.asp\"\u003Efollowing description\u003C\/a\u003E of Mao Zedong, China's own Stalin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EMao Zedong had a force and energy which none but men of equally great spiritual conviction could withstand. His animal appetites, we now know, matched his intellectual vigor. He was an object of adulation to his subjects and of mingled admiration and dread to his subordinates and intimates. While Mao lived, the brilliance of his personality illuminated the farthest corners of his country and inspired many would-be revolutionaries and romantics beyond it.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is quite clear that Chas Freeman either has no principles that can't be bought, or outright worships and celebrates brutal tyrannies. As Melanie Philips writes, he is indeed the best weapon that Islamists could have in their armory. And not only Islamists. Every dictatorship around the world could not ask for a better friend.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now Obama will put into place a second Saudi puppet to head a major piece of the national security structure, after James L. Jones. But let's close with one \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.saudi-us-relations.org\/articles\/2006\/ioi\/061103-freeman-auspc.html\"\u003Emore excerp\u003C\/a\u003Et from Chas Freeman on Israel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ETragically, despite all the advantages and opportunities Israel has had over the fifty-nine years of its existence, it has failed to achieve concord and reconciliation with anyone in its region, still less to gain their admiration or affection.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe framework proposed by Saudi Arabia's  King Abdullah at Beirut in 2002 offers Israel an opportunity to accomplish both. It has the support of all Arab governments.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the fact that such a peace is so obviously also in Israel's vital and moral interests, history and the Israeli response to date both strongly suggest that without some tough love from Americans, including especially Israel's American coreligionists, Israel will not risk the uncertainties of peace. ... But unless they are changed, the Arab peace plan will exceed its shelf life, and Arabs will revert to their previous views that Israel is an ethnomaniacal society with which it is impossible for others to coexist\u003Cb\u003E and that peace can be achieved only by Israel's eventual annihilation, much as the Crusader kingdoms that once occupied Palestine were eventually destroyed. \u003C\/b\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn unsubtle threat from a Saudi apologist, which quite openly states that Israel has the choice of accepting the plan advanced by Freeman's Saudi masters or Israel will be annihilated. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is the man Obama has put in place to have charge of the next National Intelligence Estimate. Kim Philby, eat your heart out. A foreign enemy agent has never had the kind of power that Chas Freeman Jr can expect to wield over American foreign policy on behalf of his clients in Saudi Arabia and China."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6399837341350006567\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2009\/02\/chas-freeman-help-shiites-win-fast.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6399837341350006567"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6399837341350006567"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2009\/02\/chas-freeman-help-shiites-win-fast.html","title":"Chas Freeman: \"Help the Shiites win fast, consolidate their damn dictatorship and get the hell out\""}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SaShEbRt38I\/AAAAAAAABeo\/yekTEkfj9Dc\/s72-c\/FreemanPictures+319.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-5923219143351857450"},"published":{"$t":"2008-12-09T21:30:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-19T22:51:54.232-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"investigative"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"License Plates for the Internet - The Blueprints for Obama's Assault on the Internet"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST7znofEBXI\/AAAAAAAABJY\/F3g_IajeVgE\/s1600-h\/gateway.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST7znofEBXI\/AAAAAAAABJY\/F3g_IajeVgE\/s200\/gateway.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENewspapers are widely covering a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/09\/technology\/09security.html?em\"\u003Ecalling for Obama to appoint a \u003C\/a\u003E\"Cyberspace Czar\" to oversee cyberspace security. And in the words of the New York Times article, \"\u003Cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ELicense plates may be coming to cyberspace\u003C\/span\u003E.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Center for Strategic and International Studies, whose chairman is Obama advisor Sam Nunn and whose President and CEO is John J Hamre, who was a possible candidate for Secretary of Defense under Obama. One of the members of the board of trustees is our old friend and Obama advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski. The report's recommendations are unsurprisingly expected to be fast tracked through the Obama administration.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETo quote the New York Times story,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EThe\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.csis.org\/media\/csis\/pubs\/081208_securingcyberspace_44.pdf\"\u003E report\u003C\/a\u003E, which offers guidance to the Obama administration, is a strong indictment of government and private industry efforts to secure cyberspace to date. “The laissez-faire approach to cyber-security has failed,” Mr. Kellermann said.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo naturally it's time to stop all that laissez-faire internet, and crack the whip.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe report's recommendations emphasize taking away cybersecurity from DHS in order to create a special department to oversee cybersecurity. It recommends ending the division between civilian and national security systems. And calls for establishing \"international norms\" when it comes to the internet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it focuses a good deal on identity verification, not just for Federal employees, but for ordinary Americans as well.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe report urges a move away from passwords, and toward physical identity verification, via a device that would verify an individual's identity. And calls for \"government issued credentials\" to be used by consumers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFrom Page 14 of the report.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E17. The United States should allow consumers to use strong government-issued credentials (or commercially issued credentials based on them) for online activities. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder the Bush Administration such a proposal would have produced hysterical rhetoric from the press and the left. Now they think that license plates coming to cyberspace is a fantastic idea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe report proposes a model that would have consumers use Federally issued credentials for online transactions, in the way that some businesses currently require driver's licenses and social security numbers for commercial transactions, with businesses choosing to downgrade customers who refuse to use it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST6a7g_Hl4I\/AAAAAAAABIw\/RgEkMeadCHk\/s1600-h\/Image1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST6a7g_Hl4I\/AAAAAAAABIw\/RgEkMeadCHk\/s400\/Image1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST6a-se7JzI\/AAAAAAAABI4\/XXfdsonK1aA\/s1600-h\/Image2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST6a-se7JzI\/AAAAAAAABI4\/XXfdsonK1aA\/s400\/Image2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course the information would now instead be stored by the government in one central location. And authentication online is used for everything from email to logging in to your blog. The report pays a good deal of lip service to talk about civil liberties, but its approach is a formula for a civil liberties nightmare.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe report suggests that such government authentication should be reserved for \"high risk\" areas, but just about any password protected online service is high risk. Companies such as Google and Microsoft merge accounts for paid transaction and unpaid personal services.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe implications of this kind of centralization are painfully obvious. It would put everyone's virtual housekeys in the hands of the government. More so than Bill Clinton's Carnivore program already did. This means\u003Cbr \/\u003Egiving government unprecedented control over online free speech. It would mean the end of whistleblowers and the beginning of a dark shadow falling over the internet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST7zcxBQ0yI\/AAAAAAAABJI\/nqBP7kmAMIQ\/s1600-h\/obamaposter.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST7zcxBQ0yI\/AAAAAAAABJI\/nqBP7kmAMIQ\/s320\/obamaposter.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EAdditionally the reports calls for creating an international treaty structure based on international norms, when international norms criminalize many kinds of free speech, including criticism of Islam. Taken literally, that would mean that Russia could demand that Britain or the US extradite an online critic of Putin, or that Saudi Arabia could demand the extradition of an online cartoonist who mocks Mohammed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat is more disturbing than just the report itself, is the uncritical acceptance that is it receiving, as well as the confidence that it will be fast tracked by Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe report's most dangerous aspect is that it conflates government cybersecurity with commercial cybersecurity and even individual cybersecurity, and pushes Federal control and authentication as the solution for all three. By treating the security of private companies as a matter of national security, and by extension that of individual internet users, the report paves the way for government control over all aspects of public and private internet use.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENo one is questioning the report's premise that the government should take the lead from private companies in maintaining online security, despite the fact that private companies have demonstrated a better ability and toolkit for protecting their networks, than the government has.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFederal centralization would actually weaken internet security, but would allow greater government oversight over the internet and would allow Obama to suppress civil liberties and free speech on the internet. Which is the real goal here.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe consolidation of business interests under government control is a big part of the Obama agenda, mirroring what Putin has done. The CSIS report follows this same approach to the internet. And like the rest of the Obama agenda, it is a fundamental threat to Civil Liberties and the American way of life."},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/5923219143351857450\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2008\/12\/license-plates-for-internet-blueprints.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5923219143351857450"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/5923219143351857450"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2008\/12\/license-plates-for-internet-blueprints.html","title":"License Plates for the Internet - The Blueprints for Obama's Assault on the Internet"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/ST7znofEBXI\/AAAAAAAABJY\/F3g_IajeVgE\/s72-c\/gateway.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6883203799876906525"},"published":{"$t":"2008-11-19T11:41:00.010-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2011-01-17T10:24:41.222-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"investigative"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"resistobama"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Eric Holder, Obama's Crooked Pick for Attorney General - Terrorists and Crime"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRYgPYnEWI\/AAAAAAAAA8I\/PpPkoenUI1c\/s1600-h\/PH2008111803183.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRYgPYnEWI\/AAAAAAAAA8I\/PpPkoenUI1c\/s320\/PH2008111803183.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EWhile promising Hope and Change, Obama's real promise is clearly being translated as Hopeless Corruption. The pick of Clinton Administration figure Eric Holder who was criticized in a Congressional report for ethical violations involving the infamous pardon of fugitive criminal Marc Rich, followed by the appointment of corrupt Clinton Administration figure and Freddie Mac board member, Rahm Emanuel.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere were figures in the Clinton Administration who were dirtier than Eric Holder, but not many and Eric Holder's career both before and after his time in the Clinton Administration is a very ugly one.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELet's begin with Pardongate, when Eric Holder was involved in \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/fr\/645489\/posts\"\u003Egiving his nod to\u003C\/a\u003E the pardon of fugitive tax cheat Marc Rich and in withholding information from the Justice Department. A Justice Department that he will now ironically head as Attorney General.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"A forthcoming Congressional report on the last-minute pardons by President Bill Clinton says Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was a \"willing participant in the plan to keep the Justice Department from knowing about and opposing\" a pardon for Marc Rich, the financier.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe 476-page report, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, harshly criticizes the Clinton White House for its handling of the 177 pardons and commutations granted on its last day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe most controversial pardon went to Mr. Rich, a commodities trader who fled the country in 1983 rather than face trial on charges of tax evasion, racketeering and trading with the enemy. The report says that Mr. Rich's lawyers tried to circumvent prosecutors, who would oppose the pardon, and take their case straight to the White House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMr. Holder, the report says, played a major role, steering Mr. Rich's lawyers toward Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel. Mr. Rich hired Mr. Quinn, whose Washington contacts and ability to lobby the president made the difference, according to the report. It says that Mr. Holder's support for the pardon and his failure to alert prosecutors of a pending pardon were just as crucial.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe panel criticized Mr. Holder's conduct as unconscionable and cited several problems. It cited his admission last year that he had hoped Mr. Quinn would support his becoming attorney general in a Gore administration.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's 8 years later but the Crook Fairy finally granted Eric Holder his wish to become Attorney General. And Obama has an Attorney General who conspired in the illegal pardon of a fugitive criminal in the hopes of making himself Attorney General.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECriminal doesn't even begin to describe this. Eric Holder belongs in a jail cell on charges of conspiracy, instead of being put in charge of the same Justice Department he tried to sideline to serve his own political ambitions.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course Eric Holder's slime trial doesn't end there. Pardongate also involved the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=N2Q3Nzc5MDA1YzY1NmEyNGFlNWQwZTE3NmI4ODM1MTQ=\"\u003Epardons handed out to Weather Underground terrorists\u003C\/a\u003E Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/2001506\/posts\"\u003Ewho were transporting 740 pounds of explosives\u003C\/a\u003E for use in bombings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere is what those \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/horowitz090601.asp\"\u003E740 pounds of explosives\u003C\/a\u003E were intended to do.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EOn May 11, 1985, she was arrested again, charged and then convicted of acquiring weapons, fake IDs and safe houses, and of terrorist actions. Her targets included the U.S. Capitol Building, the National War College, the Navy Yard Computer Center, the Navy Yard Officers Club, Israeli Aircraft Industries, the FBI and the New York Patrolman's Benevolent Association. In her possession were 740 pounds of dynamite. Evans was sentenced to 40 years in prison. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRY3dZBe_I\/AAAAAAAAA8Y\/xU1aK4mCKp8\/s1600-h\/faln_bombing.mid-size.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRY3dZBe_I\/AAAAAAAAA8Y\/xU1aK4mCKp8\/s400\/faln_bombing.mid-size.gif\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003ECertainly targets Al Queda itself would have approved of. And now Obama has an Attorney General that Bill Ayers and Marc Rich have thoroughly vetted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Eric Holder and terrorists. Eric Holder also \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=104\u0026amp;STORY=\/www\/story\/06-18-2008\/0004834952\u0026amp;EDATE=\"\u003Ebacked clemency for 16 FALN terrorists\u003C\/a\u003E, withholding information from Congress and even Attorney General Janet Reno and overriding the FBI's own opposition to clemency for the FALN terrorists who were part of a terrorist campaign that included a wave of terror carrying out 130 bombings over nearly a decade.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\"Holder, a Barbadian immigrant's son who grew up in Queens and received his law degree from Columbia, has played major roles in the probe of Democratic funny-money in the 1996 elections, the Sexgate scandal and the recommendation to President Clinton on whether to free FALN terrorists from jail. A list of FALN documents withheld from Congress shows that many memos on the FALN clemency decision went directly to Holder, while Reno's role was minimal.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Brian Blomquist, \"Ailing Reno Yielding Reins Of Justice,\" New York Post, 12\/15\/99)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis allowed Eric Holder to sideline his own boss and the Attorney General and playing the key role in freeing the FALN terrorists. Which proved to be a convenient way of blocking and dead ending the objections of the FBI and just about everyone involved in the case.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EAlthough The FBI Opposed Clemency, Holder Supported Clemency For The\u003Cbr \/\u003EFALN Members. \"Although The New York Times reported that the FBI, Bureau of\u003Cbr \/\u003EPrisons and U.S. state attorneys opposed clemency, Deputy Attorney General\u003Cbr \/\u003EEric Holder, the Justice Department official most involved with this issue,\u003Cbr \/\u003Ereportedly supported clemency. 'Eric Holder told me he was recommending\u003Cbr \/\u003Ethat,' a high-ranking official said. Ruff also supported clemency, sources\u003Cbr \/\u003Esaid. Holder declined to comment.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Edward Lewine, \"How Bill Chose Clemency,\" [New York] Daily News, 9\/5\/99)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENor was Eric Holder simply approving request pardons. Instead he was working on freeing the FALN terrorists, even though they had not made any such request... and was actually passing messages along to them to make a show of remorse in order to move the process along.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EIn 1997, Holder Met With Three Members Of Congress And Made Recommendations To Them About How The FALN Members Could More Easily Be Granted Clemency. \"The committee's documents show that Mr. Adams and Eric Holder, the Deputy Attorney General, met on Nov. 5, 1997, with Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois, and Representatives Jose E. Serrano of the Bronx and Nydia M. Velazquez of Brooklyn, both Democrats, to discuss the case of the Puerto Rican inmates.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording to Mr. Adams's notes, Mr. Holder told the members of Congress that because the prisoners had not applied themselves for clemency this could be taken that they were not repentant, and he suggested that a statement expressing some remorse might help. In their testimony today, both Mr. Adams and Mr. Holder declined to answer several questions about how the clemency decision was reached, citing executive privilege. Both said, however, that the Justice Department had acted appropriately throughout the process.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Neil A. Lewis, \"Records Show Puerto Ricans Got U.S. Help With Clemency,\" The New York Times, 10\/21\/99)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EClearly Eric Holder was fixated on freeing the FALN terrorists. So fixated that he was willing to sideline procedures, behave unethically and possibly even illegally. Arguably after this, Eric Holder should not be able to hold any position in the government, let alone that of Attorney General.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow wrong were Eric Holder's actions? So wrong that FALN afterward was identified as a National Security Threat.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EA Subsequent Clinton Administration Justice Department Report Identified The Group As An \"Ongoing Threat.\" \"The Puerto Rican nationalist group FALN, 16 of whose members were pardoned by President Clinton in August, poses an 'ongoing threat' to national security, according to a September report by Attorney General Janet Reno released yesterday during a combative Senate hearing on the clemency decision.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(David A. Vise and Lorraine Adams, \"FALN A Threat, Reno Says,\" The Washington Post, 10\/21\/99)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEric Holder's work on behalf of FALN resulted in a \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/archives.cnn.com\/2000\/ALLPOLITICS\/stories\/02\/08\/faln.pardon\/\"\u003Especial congressional measure\u003C\/a\u003E to reform the process.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this is the carnage that \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article_print\/SB120277819085260827.html\"\u003EEric Holder's FALN buddies inflicted on the people of New York\u003C\/a\u003E and the NYPD.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe editorial is written by the Director of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and the sister of one of the pilots who died on 9\/11.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EIt was nearly 10 p.m. on New Year's Eve, 1982. Two officers on New York Police Department's elite bomb squad rushed to headquarters at One Police Plaza, where minutes earlier an explosion had destroyed the entrance to the building. Lying amid the carnage was Police Officer Rocco Pascarella, his lower leg blasted off.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"He was ripped up like someone took a box cutter and shredded his face,\" remembered Detective Anthony Senft, one of the bomb-squad officers who answered the call 25 years ago. \"We really didn't even know that he was a uniformed man until we found his weapon, that's how badly he was injured.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAbout 20 minutes later, Mr. Senft and his partner, Richard Pastorella, were blown 15 feet in the air as they knelt in protective gear to defuse another bomb. Detective Senft was blinded in one eye, his facial bones shattered, his hip severely fractured. Mr. Pastorella was blinded in both eyes and lost all the fingers of his right hand. A total of four bombs exploded in a single hour on that night, including at FBI headquarters in Manhattan and the federal courthouse in Brooklyn.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe prisoners were convicted on a variety of charges that included conspiracy, sedition, violation of the Hobbes Act (extortion by force, violence or fear), armed robbery and illegal possession of weapons and explosives -- including large quantities of C-4 plastic explosive, dynamite and huge caches of ammunition. Mr. Clinton's action was opposed by the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. attorney offices that prosecuted the cases and the victims whose lives had been shattered. In contravention of standard procedures, none of these agencies, victims or families of victims were consulted or notified prior to the president's announcement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I know the chilling evidence that convicted the petitioners,\" wrote Deborah Devaney, one of the federal prosecutors who spent years on the cases. \"The conspirators made every effort to murder and maim. . . . A few dedicated federal agents are the only people who stood in their way.\"\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few dedicated Federal agents stood in their way... and future Attorney General Eric Holder stood in the way of the dedicated Federal agents.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ETwenty-four hours before a scheduled Senate committee hearing, the DOJ withheld the FBI's written statement about the history of the FALN and an assessment of its current terrorist capability. \"They pulled the plug on us,\" said an unnamed FBI official in a news report, referring to the Justice Department decision to prevent FBI testimony\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWe can only imagine what Eric Holder will perpetrate as Attorney General, what crimes he will cover up, what terrorists he will aid and loose on the American public. He has proven himself all too well in the Clinton Administration as the best friend that terrorists and criminals with political influence could ever hope to have.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor Joe Connor, whose father was murdered by FALN terrorists in a bombing only blocks away from the World Trade Center, Eric Holder's corrupt actions on behalf of the FALN terrorists\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/09272006\/postopinion\/opedcolumnists\/bill_pardoned_terror_opedcolumnists_joseph_f__conner.htm\"\u003E carries a great personal price\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EDuring the 1970s and '80s, the FALN waged a war against the people of the United States that included 130 plus bombings. Their most heinous attack was the January 1975 lunchtime bombing of Fraunces Tavern here in New York City. It killed four people, including my father, Frank Connor, 33.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUntil then, President Clinton had denied clemency in 3,039 out of 3,042 cases. It's also worth noting that the Clinton administration consulted with representatives of the terrorists - but ignored the families of their victims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was trying to make the point that the release of the FALN killers would send a frightening invitation to other would-be terrorists. Little did I know that more anguish was yet to come.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAlmost two years to the day after my Senate testimony, my father's god son, our cousin Steve Schlag, was killed on 9\/11. My brother and I watched in helpless horror from our downtown offices, ironically only blocks from Fraunces Tavern. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRYqT2r93I\/AAAAAAAAA8Q\/_HUc-mI1CLM\/s1600-h\/ED-AH074_burlin_20080211165018.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRYqT2r93I\/AAAAAAAAA8Q\/_HUc-mI1CLM\/s320\/ED-AH074_burlin_20080211165018.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe 9\/11 connection is not accidental. Freeing terrorists sends a signal of weakness to other terrorists. Eric Holder's work on behalf of the FALN terrorists 2 years before 9\/11 amounted to demonstrating that you can brutally participate in murder of NYPD officers and New Yorkers and walk away from it with the Federal Government on your side. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Eric Holder's terrorist ties don't end there. Once out of the White House and working as a lawyer at Covington and Burling, Eric Holder represented Chiquita when the Justice Department charged the company with engaging in transactions with terrorists for the millions of dollars in protection money that Chiquita paid to Columbia Narcoterrorists.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then of course back in the Clinton Administration days, Eric Holder was a big fan of using force... not against terrorists, but \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/pressRelease\/idUS25631+23-Jun-2008+PRN20080623\"\u003Eagainst a 6 year old boy and his unarmed family\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEric Holder played a key role in the armed abduction of Elian Gonzalez by an army of border patrol agents with automatic weapons pointed at his head.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHolder Also Defended The Use Of Guns In The Raid. \"Mr. Holder said his\u003Cbr \/\u003Eagents were heavily armed when they entered the house because they had\u003Cbr \/\u003E'intelligence that the possibility existed there were guns in the house. We\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehad to make sure our people were protected and they were in a position to\u003Cbr \/\u003Eprotect people within the house. I don't know if there were any guns in the\u003Cbr \/\u003Ehouse. I don't know if they found any guns. We had to deal, however, with the\u003Cbr \/\u003Eintelligence we had that we got from local sources and make sure everybody was\u003Cbr \/\u003Eadequately protected.' Apparently no guns were found.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(Jerry Seper and Clarence Williams, \"Holder Defends Sudden Raid For Elian,\" The Washington Times, 4\/24\/00)\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust to clarify this, ruthless force had to be used because there was supposedly intelligence that there were guns in the house, though Eric Holder has no idea if there were any guns in the house or whether any guns were found in the house.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.debbieschlussel.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/good_news_obama.html\"\u003EDebbie Schlussel points out\u003C\/a\u003E, Eric Holder's appointment along with Greg Craig reunites 2\/3rds of the Elian Gonzalez kidnapping team. We can only look forward to the kind of gruesome abuses of the justice system these two will perpetrate on behalf of Barack Hussein Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course Eric Holder was not too fussy to get involved in corporate crime either. And I don't mean on the prosecuting side.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRZSSn9dGI\/AAAAAAAAA8g\/Qwtau6gvwpg\/s1600-h\/EVNTS_Holder.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRZSSn9dGI\/AAAAAAAAA8g\/Qwtau6gvwpg\/s320\/EVNTS_Holder.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EEric Holder lobbied on behalf of Global Crossing, one of the 10 largest corporate bankruptcies since 1980, on a level with Enron and WorldCom. It was the 7th largest filing in American history. While Global Crossing was accumulating debt like mad, its executives were spending like mad, taking tens of millions in personal loans from the company, operating corporate jets, and selling as much inside stock as Enron.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMeanwhile Global Crossing executives were covering their asses with a million dollar donation to Bill Clinton's library. The same bribe route used by Marc Rich, another Eric Holder beneficiary.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENow guess who the auditor for Global Crossing was? Arthur Andersen, made infamous by its ties to Enron. And guess who was its lobbyist, Eric Holder.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd just in case you think that the Eric Holder Scandal Train stops there, it's only the beginning of a long route which we, and probably in a few years, Federal investigators will be tracing in great detail.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnless Congressional Republicans and the few honest Democrats do their job and vet Eric Holder. We know the media won't do it, it will just keep on repeating the fluff about Eric Holder's historic appointment as the first Black Attorney General, as if that's supposed to make us forget FALN, Elian, Global Crossing, the Weathermen pardons and Marc Rich.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt's time for Congress to take a stand against Eric Holder and for integrity in the Justice Department.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/resistobama\"\u003E\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/i33.tinypic.com\/2mc6hvq.jpg\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6883203799876906525\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2008\/11\/eric-holder-obamas-crooked-pick-for.html#comment-form","title":"9 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6883203799876906525"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6883203799876906525"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2008\/11\/eric-holder-obamas-crooked-pick-for.html","title":"Eric Holder, Obama's Crooked Pick for Attorney General - Terrorists and Crime"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_mveHL3n_4ME\/SSRYgPYnEWI\/AAAAAAAAA8I\/PpPkoenUI1c\/s72-c\/PH2008111803183.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"9"}}]}});