Mike Pouraryan
Can Liz Cheney's Actions be Defended?
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Only If Ann Coulter does it!!!!
Liz Cheney and her friend Bill Kristol have taken on the mantle of "making America safe". Their latest ad has been making the headlines lately. Michelle Malkin actually thanked Liz Cheney and her organization for exposing these guys. Ann Coulter outdid Michelle Malkin. Her column in Human Events was quite extra-ordinary read.
As I read her column, I had to simply wonder: does she actually think about this stuff before she writes it? She makes a lot of money be provocative, outright rude and insulting. I also have to really question her sanity. She questioned the intergrity of other lawyers and frankly was racist when she noted that the lawyers had to be told in Arabic that "You're No Atticus Finch". Well, someone needs to tell her that her law education is not worth the paper it is written on because she seems not to understand what the law is and what the Constitution stands for.
There is one thing that she noted in her so-called column that I also wanted to take issue with. The Lawyer who defened the killer of George Tiller has to be accorded the same respect and dignity for defending that killer's rights as the lawyers who went to help military lawyers work on the cases at Guantanamo. They're all defense lawyers who serve as the last line of defense against the ever-reaching expansion of State Power. I am sure that Ms. Coulter must have read and thought about the fundemental principals of American Jurispudence at some moment in her law school career. I have to truly wonder.
As for her contentions on Guantanamo, Ms. Coulter should spend thirty minutes checking out the film "the response" and make sure she's truly educated about the plight of those at Guantanamo before sitting in judgement and defending those who seem to truly have no clue at all.
As I read her column, I had to simply wonder: does she actually think about this stuff before she writes it? She makes a lot of money be provocative, outright rude and insulting. I also have to really question her sanity. She questioned the intergrity of other lawyers and frankly was racist when she noted that the lawyers had to be told in Arabic that "You're No Atticus Finch". Well, someone needs to tell her that her law education is not worth the paper it is written on because she seems not to understand what the law is and what the Constitution stands for.
There is one thing that she noted in her so-called column that I also wanted to take issue with. The Lawyer who defened the killer of George Tiller has to be accorded the same respect and dignity for defending that killer's rights as the lawyers who went to help military lawyers work on the cases at Guantanamo. They're all defense lawyers who serve as the last line of defense against the ever-reaching expansion of State Power. I am sure that Ms. Coulter must have read and thought about the fundemental principals of American Jurispudence at some moment in her law school career. I have to truly wonder.
As for her contentions on Guantanamo, Ms. Coulter should spend thirty minutes checking out the film "the response" and make sure she's truly educated about the plight of those at Guantanamo before sitting in judgement and defending those who seem to truly have no clue at all.
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Those kind, sweet, probably innocent "victims" at Gitmo do need representation, true, even in a military tribunal. That's the law. I resent my tax dollars paying for it, especially if they are released and return to kill more Americans. (The recidivism rate isn't good). Funny how quickly some people can forget 9/11 and refer to those of us who understand that it can happen again as "fear mongers". If more people had paid attention to all the previous attacks, maybe we could have prevented 9/11.
I have to question the motives of those who want to defend terrorists. And the motives of a government that places those same lawyers in positions of power.
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Notice how these are all the same people who jumped up and down about those American Baptists who got busted trying to smuggle kids out of Haiti? Something about them not getting a fair trial or lawyers or something? Load of hypocrites.
Sometimes I think they are all actors trying to see if there is anything they say that will make people go 'hang on a minute, that's crazy even for me'. But nope. Seems nothing is too crazy for the far right to believe. Nothing.
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The defense that I would posit is that Ms Cheney operates in a fantasy world, bounded by ignorance and limited by paranoia. She has no historical knowledge, no concept of the nature of the glories of this country and its liberties, and no awareness of the development of our legal system.
Ms Cheney, and her supporters, pay lip service to the statement that, of course, every accused is entitled to representation just not good representation. An accused defendant is presumed to be innocent unless its really clear that the SOB did it.
The sarcasm in a previous post is childlike, but also telling:
Those kind, sweet, probably innocent "victims" at Gitmo do need representation, true, even in a military tribunal. That's the law. I resent my tax dollars paying for it, especially if they are released and return to kill more Americans. [Emphasis supplied]
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Thus the real danger is especially if they are released. Thus the defense is satisfactorily presented only if it is, by definition, unsuccessful! And the motive of those attorneys who are ethically mandated to offer a vigorous defense, by the way, is to protect the freedoms enjoyed by the rest of us.
Of course, one can always blame Bill Clinton or confiscatory taxes or those stupid liberals
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If a person admits guilt, without having the government prove its prima facie case before a fair and unbiased tribunal, are we to then impose punishment? Seems to me that that system has a few flaws.
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That being said, if all the evidence points to one person and that person has confessed, why should we spend a fortune on a trial? Not to mention what it puts the victims through, having to relive their tragedy.
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