For more than a week there has been a back and forth between the lunatics like Liz Cheney and the rest of the country….she got lots of play when her organization “Keep America Safe” put out an ad that calls those people that have defended suspected terrorists as the “Al Qaeda 7″…..shall we continue?
From thinkprogress.org: Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol’s Keep America Safe organization released a web ad on Monday targeting yet-to-be named Justice Department lawyers who had worked on Guantanamo detainee issues as the “al Qaeda 7.” “Whose values do they share?” asked the ad over an image of seven silhouettes juxtaposed with images of Arabic men. When Politico’s Ben Smith first reported on the attack ad, he noted that it “questions the loyalties of Justice Department lawyers.”
The Lady Liz and her cohorts have forgotten their history….which is NOT unusual for the lunatic Right to do so if it helps their agenda……the history I am talking about is back in 1770…….in case your history is a little cloudy,,,,that was when the British opened up on colonialists it was called, “the Boston Massacre”.
March 5, 1770, a confrontation between an angry merchant and a lone sentry posted in front of the Customs House devolved into an angry mob hurling chunks of ice, coal, and stones against a group of quickly assembled reinforcements. One of the soldiers fell after someone threw a wooden club at him. Then from one in the crowd: “Fire!” That’s when the shooting began. Five Boston citizens were killed.
The British soldiers were put on trial. It was with great difficulty that a defense team was assembled. John Adams, a respected attorney from nearby Braintree, agreed to lead the defense. Adams knew he was risking his reputation, but firmly believed in the principle that every man deserves a fair trial.
This is what America is ALL about…..a fair trial for accused terrorists and the Brits from 1770 could be labeled terrorists. If these Americans are trying to say that these lawyers were acting in an un-American fashion, then they are basically spitting on the Constitution and the very soul of the United States of America.
One can only hope that Liz Cheney get’s mistakenly arrested and charged with murder, or better still a child pornography, and can find NO ONE to represent her as all available lawyers don’t wish to be “associated” with anyone charged with such crimes.
Can you hear Senator Joseph McCarthy (Repub Wisconsin – died 1957) cheering from his grave?
PS: Lobotero… off topic, but worth mentioning – check out the link in Glenda’s comment on my “Devious Bastards” post – brilliant!
I am a history buff, as if I needed to tell you, and have noticed that it is a disease in the US….guilt by association….example I have friend that lives in an area we call the “Combat Zone, a heavy drug ‘hood, I go by and we have a couple of beers and schmooze…..once when I was leaving his house and was stopped by the cops and submitted to a search….in the mind I was there for only one reason…DRUGS. The cop even told me after finding nothing they could use, that I needed to pick my friends more carefully. That is when I got irate and told him that my Mom never told me who my friends were and he had no DAMN right to even mention that….
You know, in the UK at least, there was I time (a helluva long time ago, but nevertheless within my lifetime) when law enforcement still worked. It worked because you had smaller more manageable areas with local and mostly honest policemen who knew the area and the people in it and had some ability at least to judge character.
Nowadays, it’s by the book and the book was written by f*cking idiots who knew nothing and cared even less!!! 🙁
I agree with you on this…..there was a time when the police were real people and not this gigantic machine that is smothering itself in massive bureaucracy……they worry more about some poor dude that had a couple of beers than anything else…..and in my area ALL the cops look alike….same build, same haircut, same mindless stare the same in almost every aspect…..so is there a breeding ranch somewhere we do not know about?
Partly due to public attitude, the police have drifted further away from ordinary people and there is now a them (the police) and us (everyone else) situation, which amounts to a vicious circle – the more they don’t trust us, the more we don’t trust them and so on.
As a matter of interest and slightly off topic, what part do you think films and, in particular, TV have played in all this? I don’t mean the Fox News type rubbish, but the entertainment side?
I mean, for instance, I’ve never thought of men and women running around naked and screwing each other silly on screen (or in public for that matter) as particularly bad for kids to watch because we should all have a bit more honesty with our children about sex (which is, after all, probably the most important subject they should learn about in life).
However, the level of violence and lack of compassion and caring in that and almost ALL other forms of “entertainment” does strike me as being perhaps significant. It’s natural of course – for instance, a story about a good cop is often no story at all, but one about a bad cop is MUCH easier to make exciting.
Add to that the brainwashing that they call advertising and that encourages everyone to “need” things they actually neither want nor can afford and I kinda think you have a perfect recipe for exactly what we’ve got today – a whole load of violent, greedy, and above all, irresponsible shit everywhere!
Yep I agree…the media has done too much to influence the people….and not in a good way……look at the US today…..there is financial reform, health reform, educational debate and the media focuses on the idiot Ericf Massa and his ever changing reasons for leaving Congress…it is gossip, not news and that is what they would rather have us tune into….not the stuff that is effecting our lives….