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| 2005-06-17 |
| The general leading the force to free the captive enemy from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, and inflict a humiliating defeat on the United States is so-called ''civil rights'' and ''Constitutional'' attorney Michael Ratner. It was Ratner who led the way in recruiting elite lawyers to defend the enemy combatants being interrogated at Gitmo. But Ratner is a long-time leader of two pro-Communist and anti-American organizations who have for decades have lent aid and comfort to America's enemies in the Cold War and beyond. Michael Ratner is a lawyer who began his legal career in the late 1960s at the National Lawyers Guild, a Soviet created front group which still embraces its Communist heritage. He worked his way up through the NLG's radical ranks to become its president, then moved on to hold the same position at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which share's the NLG's anti-American radicalism and was founded by pro-Castro lawyers Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler. Among its many outrages, the CCR has defended domestic and international terrorists, and has honored Ratner's NLG colleague and convicted terrorist enabler Lynne Stewart, a modern Legal Left idol. Since 9/11, Ratner and his comrades have attempted to extend undeserved ''civil rights'' on Islamist murderers with notable success. On this front, Ratner and the Legal Left have dealt America its few setbacks in the War on Terror. One year ago the U.S. suffered its first major loss in this war, a strategic and propaganda defeat, related to America's abilities to imprison and interrogate enemies that it captures. Abu Ghraib was a huge propaganda victory, both for Islamists, who used it to ''justify'' their violent attacks, and for fifth column leftists, who made use of the media's saturation coverage to portray the U.S. as the world's biggest oppressor, the Bush administration as a cabal of Nazi thugs, and the Iraq as an immoral undertaking. The gross overplay of that prison scandal in concert with other overblown and sometimes fabricated stories â€" like Newsweek's ''Koran in the toilet'' canard â€" emboldened Islamic terrorists, eroded U.S. public support for the War on Terror, and damaged America's credibility around the world. ... Ratner's CCR has almost always received modest funding, most of it from far-Left organizations and leftist-run foundations. But funding of CCR increased by leaps and bounds after Ratner adopted his post-9/11 high profile. The George Soros-funded Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, and other leftist support groups began heavily funding Ratner and CCR's anti-Bush, antiwar, anti-American agendas. Thanks to these forces, the proper relationship between prisoner and guard, deemed vital for successful interrogation, has now been damaged and the Department of Defense (DOD) faces a dilemma. Ratner's suit has already somewhat undermined its effectiveness at Guantanamo Bay. If the DOD closes Gitmo, the prisoners are set free or are moved to the U.S. where it will be nearly impossible to deny them access to U.S. courts. If the department moves the prisoners to another location outside of U.S. jurisdiction, Ratner and his fifth column legal army will simply begin another high-profile fight for the prisoners' ''rights,'' and the propaganda battle begins anew with continued erosion of popular and political support for the War on Terror. Though the battle for Guantanamo's prisoners is not yet over, but from the time the first plane-load of lawyers touched down in Cuba, two things became abundantly clear: Islamist psychopaths had won a major victory against America's resolve to fight them. And Michael Ratner, George Soros, and a host of prestigious American law firms helped them. |
| Posted by:Mrs. Davis |
| #1 I don't see a problem here. If we must close Guantanamo detention facility, simply take all the inmates offshore - WAAAYYYY offshore - in a "fredom boat" - preceded by a "chum dispensing boat" - and then declare the detainees "free" - and invite them to swim home - after, of course - we apoligize for the minor misunderstanding that brought them to the sunny Caribbean. 'Give 'em each a box of (bloody) Omaha steaks, just to show there are no hard feelings. Then invite them to un-ass the boat. "Walking the plank" in shark-infested waters - that should appeal to the sense of bravado of these "Lions of Islam". Personally, I'd invite the US lawyers to accompny their terr clients on the long swim. The sharks probably won't mind a little "halal" cusine. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2005-06-17 21:17 |