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The Gifts of Eric Holder                                        click here to subscribe to the eddobloggo RSS feed Subscribe via RSS


US Attorney General Eric Holder is about two years my junior.  It is likely, therefore, that he was in the seventh grade at one of those New York City public schools for intellectually-gifted students that he attended from age ten through high school on the day that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

 

Holder's junior high, like my own New York school, would have been closed indefinitely with the announcement of JFK's death.  He and the rest of America would spend the next several days riveted to their televisions watching the incredible post-assassination saga unfold before our eyes. 

 

AP photo of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963.

Two days after being sent home from school, Holder would have witnessed, as did the rest of us, the breech of security that allowed Jack Ruby to shoot Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's presumed assassin, at point blank range inside the Dallas police facility where Oswald was being detained.

 

You may wonder now, as the USAG prepares to re-create the potential for a latter day vigilante episode of similar magnitude, if the deprivation of justice perpetrated by Jack Ruby in Dallas 46 years ago was an impetus for Eric Holder to devote his gifted young intellect to the study and application of American law?

 

It would do no good to argue legalities with Eric Holder.  Given the administration's collective mind being made up to mock Americans' Constitutional rights by allowing the admitted 9/11 plot mastermind to be tried -- just like a US citizen -- in our criminal court system. 

 

Additionally, we need to keep in mind that as Bill Clinton's Deputy Attorney General, Holder was responsible for:

  • Reducing the criminal sentences of 16 members of the Boricua Popular Army, which had been categorized by the FBI as a terrorist organization.

  • The pardon of eight incarcerated members of the FALN, one of the most prolific terrorist organizations ever to wage war against the American people, who proudly claimed responsibility for over 130 bombings and incendiary attacks in the U.S. and Puerto Rico that had killed six and wounded scores.

  • The pardon of Marc Rich, on the last day of Clinton's presidency, who was indicted in the United States on federal charges of illegally making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis as well as for income tax evasion.

Even if you are inclined to agree with the administration's points of disagreement with the previous administration's methodologies for keeping New York City and the rest of America safe from terrorist attack...

 

Even if you are as unconcerned about the potential for pro-terror and anti-US propaganda as Holder and his cronies are...

 

Even if you see no problem with the exposure-by-trial of CIA and other intelligence-gathering organizations' information and strategies to the enemies of America...

 

Even if you are unconcerned about the security and privacy issues inherent in keeping a civilian jury occupied for such an extended period of time...

 

Even if you are eager for the US to prove, by giving a fair trial to even an admitted arch-enemy, its claim of being the fairest and most democratic nation on earth...

 

Even if you are willing to see that fair trial turn into a show trial...

 

...what scintilla of logic has the Obama administration presented that convinces you there is no better, more secure venue than lower Manhattan (let alone in a courthouse that was once in the shadow of the World Trade Center Towers) for Federal Court trials of foreign nationals who had plotted and were ultimately captured abroad?

 

Not to suggest or support any trial but one that is conducted by a military tribunal, but hasn't the administration considered that the construction or renovation of a more secure trial venue for KSM and the rest would be far less expensive than the cost to the taxpayers of providing security for a years-long New York City trial? In the process, it might at least create some jobs -- which should be the administration's main focus.

 

Too bad that our gifted Attorney General gave most of his gifts away to enemies of America during the Clinton administration.  But leave it to Barack Hussein Obama to recycle this anti-American's best friend and allow him to finish the job.

 

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Perhaps a more fitting title would have been the gifts of Obama keep on giving.....Obama has made it QUITE APPARANT that he is ANTI-AMERICAN...Obama believes no more in the Constitution of the United States than does Eric Holder. Most of the people Obama surrounds himself with and that he has put into office or power are ANTI AMERICAN and want to totally dis-mantel the US Constitution in favor of a communist type of government....ISNT IT OBVIOUS?

 

rocco0607

Great Falls, MT Tribune

[YES. -ED]


Good old Holder, the brains behind Waco.

 

robertsgunshop

Des Moines, IA Register


Wow.  Very fine job. Thank you for this blog.

 

noleft_turn

Lansing, MI State Journal


There aree a few events in life that we remember where we were and, on that day, I was outside having a smoke when it was announced and saw my teachers had been crying when I went back inside. Mr. Holder reminds me of that rare breed of 'Who-me's that I dealt with on graveyard shift that came out only at night to do crime...

 

boned

Great Falls, MT Tribune

[Interesting analogy. -ED]


You have outdone yourself my man.  Congratulations on a very very fine job.

 

Anonymous

[Thank you for reading and for your approval. -ED]


The "hate America first" crowd scores one point. holder and his ilk are the vanguard of a new wave of grind into the dust all that is good to create the socialist state of total control. They should hang on, the ride may be fun for them now but the screams may turn to fear as time goes by.

 

deserttrek

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun


I think they probably have a plea deal going on and there won't be a trial at all. The administration will get credit for their attempts at being "fair" by the Europeans, and for getting an overall domestic approval for getting a conviction. It's all a show...

 

beenaroundsome

Palm Springs, CA Desert Sun

[I'm not buying that one, at least not in KSM's case. That cucaracha had already asked to be martyred but now he's eager to put on an al Qaida show trial in NY with the help of Holder and the Obamakommies. What's in it for them? Anti-Bush/Cheney propaganda and placation of their lefty base. They could care less if there's a conviction unless it occurs within a month of the next Presidential Election Day. -ED]


Holder was [also] impressive in dropping the voter intimidation charges against members of the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia. It doesn't often seem like he's on our side.

 

WWWIII

Lansing, MI State Journal 


Your insight, intelligence, and knowledge of intricate details of historical importance is genuinely appreciated. I always look forward to your weekly blogs, and, importantly, go national. Thank you, my friend!

 

proudmary4

Tallahassee, FL Democrat

[Thanks again to you pm4 for sticking with my rants.  If you think they're worthwhile for others to read, please send links in your e-mails to your circle of friends. ED]


This is a risky move by Obama who really is behind all of this. Another example of being politically correct...

 

pollybaker

Lansing, MI State Journal 


WHAT ARE WE DOING? Iraq: US killed: 4364 //Afghan: US killed: 913 //Costs of Wars since 2001: $932+Billion //Afghan Literacy: 11.4% //Afghans w/ Electricity: 15% //Afghan Life Expectancy: 44 //  

 

theRealPaolo

Rochester, NY

[We're spending more in every direction and accomplishing less for lack of a strategy that demands winning and making things better both at home and abroad.  Holder is the poster boy for this kind of PC nonsense.  As for the "Costs of Wars", does anyone ever deduct the cost of maintaining a peacetime armed forces from these totals?  I didn't think so. -ED]


Still wondering when the middle of the road majority is going to take the ball away from the donkey/elephant ping pong game...

 

rainbowed

Great Falls, MT Tribune

[When you stop letting them use you for a racket. -ED]


You would prefer the USA to have a formal policy, approved by the Pres, Congress, and the American people: that we can snatch people accused of terrorism, lock them away in a off-shore jail, don't put them on trial, and keep them there for an indefinite period of time. Wow. This sounds like USSR circa 1960.   Sorry man, this has to change.

 

IdiotWind

Des Moines, IA Register

[This sounds like USSR circa 1960."  That's exactly what non-kommies have been saying about the Obama administration. Why don't you fly a plane into the tallest building in Yemen and see what kind of rights and treatment they give you pursuant to execution. -ED]


AAhhh yes, The good ole USA. The only country in the World that doesn't consider the murder of innocent civilians and military personnel in a secure military facility an act of war. Lets try them as a common criminal. What an absolute genius our president is (sarcasm intended)

 

webejammin

Wausau, WI Daily Herald 


What if his confession is thrown out due to coercion?  Aren't the 5 USS Cole bombers going to seen as heroes as well? Maybe not, since a military tribunal isn't as public. Giving KSM what he wants, which is a [civilian] trial, and you automatically make him a hero. The coverage of the trial will be broadcast around the world.

 

jefftobin3

Des Moines, IA Register


The whole world is laughing as we (I mean the Obama administration) is treating prisoners of war as common criminals. Do you really want Muslim extremists in our prisons recruiting new members? Do we really want other Muslim extremists coming to the US to visit them? Do we want to take the chance that they will somehow be found not guilty by means of some off the wall technicality? And turned loose on the streets of New York? Is our CinC out of his ever loving mind?

 

Jolanta

Wausau, WI Daily Herald 


Excellent post.  If I might add, not in Eric Holder's defense, but as an aside:  Eric Holder is not acting alone but at the behest of the POTUS. This is not a "simple error," but a planned, calculated move.  We are right to be distressed to see this machination.  When the obvious consequences of this miscarriage play out, the POTUS will throw Eric under the bus, and say that he was unaware of what Eric was doing, but couldn't countermand after Eric had made the decision.

 

Skypirate

Mansfield, OH

[An excellent analysis by you, as well! -ED]


The Gifts of Eric Holder just keep coming.   Like trying the terrorist in NYC. 

 

Anonymous

Gulfport, MS


 

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