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| Bush Can't Designate Terror Groups: Judge | ||
| 2006-11-29 | ||
A federal judge barred the Bush administration from specifying organizations that support terrorism for the purpose of freezing their assets and keeping funds from terrorists. US District Court Judge Audrey Collins blocked the administration from freezing the assets of the PKK and the Tamil Tigers, two rather obvious terrorist groups:
Collins, a Clinton appointee, gained notoriety two years ago when she became the first federal judge to strike down provisions of the Patriot Act. Interestingly, she found that act, passed by Congress, also to be too vague to be constitutional. In that case, one of the plaintiffs was -- the PKK again, which got its terrorist designation not from the Bush administration under the Patriot Act or this executive order, but by Madeline Albright's State Department in 1997. Nor was that the first time Collins has had a problem with anti-terrorist legislation. During the Clinton administration, she struck down the 1996 anti-terrorism law passed by Congress in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. Collins seems to have trouble reading the law, finding all counterterrorism legislation too vague to be understood. Perhaps the problem lies with Collins more than the laws themselves. John Stephenson wrote about this ruling at Collins' cheerleaders earlier today: I should really just stop right there. The ruling is praised by a lawyer for terrorist sympathizing, Center For Constitutional Rights! The Center for Constitutional Rights is openly anti-American and pro-terrorist. Groups suspected of ties to terrorism give money to CCR. The granddaughter of the executed Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg works there! At its 2004 annual convention, the CCR honored attorney Lynne Stewart, an open supporter of terrorism, indicted by the Justice Department for abetting the terrorist activities of her client, the “blind sheik,” Omar Abdel Rahman.As the song says, you can tell the man who boozes by the company he chooses. This pig needs to get up and quickly run to the Court of Appeals, where we can hope for a few jurists who don't have terrorists' interests at heart. | ||
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #7 I agree with Mike & have read the 2 books he cites. I think their story is quite relevant in the current WOT. Every Rantburger should read these, for the background information on the US track record with respect to espionage and infiltration of our own diplomatic and defense organizations. We're still hopelessly naive: Richard Feynmann told about innocently lending his car to Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs drove from Los Alamos to Santa Fe or Albuquerque to meet his Soviet contact during the Manhattan project. --- Nowadays, McCarthy is used as a bogeyman, a rhetorical device, to divert the electorate's attention. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-11-29 23:01 |
| #6 Traitor and sympathizer. 'nuff said. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-11-29 13:21 |
| #5 Collins, a Clinton appointee, No need to read further. |
| Posted by: Raj 2006-11-29 13:06 |
| #4 Send her ass to see for her self the Tamil Tigers or the PKK, don't send security, they are not terrorists. She will come back a changed woman, if she comes back at all. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-11-29 12:13 |
| #3 BULLSHIT. This judge has apparently never heard of the role COMMANDER IN CHIEF. And this stupid bitch has not realized there is a WAR on. I think she needs a trip to Baghdad to wake her ass up. Or maybe wintess the hangings in IRan, or the mass death in Darfur to wake her ass up. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2006-11-29 11:13 |
| #2 Primne target for being overturned. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-11-29 10:50 |
| #1 ..Y'know, if I hear 'McCarthyism' one more freaking time, I'm going to get seriously bent. 1. There WERE no blacklists created by the government - they were created and ENFORCED by the industry and academic leaders who were every bit as lefty as the people blacklisted, but had no inetntion of going down with their more outspoken friends. 2. Those same people (for reasons listed above) never spoke up, never publicly fought back. They waited for Edward R. Murrow to stick HIS neck out and pull off the first real counterattack against McCarthy, followed by McCarthy's public humiliation at the Army hearings - then and only then, once he was defanged, did those brave souls come out and start the legend of the resistance. 3. Last of all - and you'll NEVER hear this brought up - McCarthy wasn't that far off the mark. Soviet and KGB archives (detailed in Sword and Shield and The Haunted Tree ) document beyond any possible doubt that the State Department was riddled with Soviet spies - not sympathisers, not fellow travelers, but SPIES - at mid and higher levels. Haunted Tree is especially forward on this, and it's all the more powerful for its scholarly and emotionless examination and detail. I urge anyone interested in the subject to read it, especially the chapters concerning Alger Hiss. Had he not been exposed through his own arrogance, he would have stood a very good chance of becoming SecState in a Stevenson or Kennedy/Johnson administration. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2006-11-29 09:21 |