"Nobody... wants... to play with me..." *sniff*
Posted on 11/05/2006 11:44:04 AM PST by JRochelle
BAGHDAD, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The judge presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others on charges of crimes against humanity ejected former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark from the court on Sunday for insulting the tribunal.
Clark, who heads an international team of lawyers involved in the defence, was ejected at the start of a hearing at which Saddam and two aides were convicted and sentenced to death.
The judge, Raouf Abdul Rahman, ejected Clark because he had sent a memo to Abdul Rahman including the accusation that the tribunal was making "a mockery of justice".
The judge told him in Arabic: "No, you are the mockery ... get him out, out."
Abdul Rahman then shouted in English: "Out! Out!"
"You come from America and ridicule the Iraqi people," he said.
Clark had earlier said the trial was politically influenced, and that if Saddam were sentenced to death, it would be "victors' justice".
"Nobody... wants... to play with me..." *sniff*
"YOU are the mockery" - Classic.
What's the scoop on this guy? He's the son of a supreme court justice - Tom Clark, who agreed to step down in exchange for Ramsey becoming Attorney General during the Johnson administration. Soon after that he went kinda goofy, to say the least.
The judge should have found the old crackpot in contempt of court and sentenced him to 30 days--and made him spend it in the same cell with Saddamned.
It's hard to believe that old Bolshevik is still alive, but then again, the Devil takes care of his own.
I'd love to see a video of this exchange. Does one exist?
APf
I never realized he looks a tad like Randy Quaid.
This mornings thread said the Iraqi prosecutor is considering charging Clark for disrupting the court and insulting the judge.
see #9
Is there any other kind? What kind of "justice" is the Justice of the Conquered?
a "DEMOCRAT".
--unfortunately, he won't be going to the gallows with Saddam--
"What's the scoop on this guy? He's the son of a supreme court justice - Tom Clark, who agreed to step down[so Lyndon Johnson could appoint Thurgood Marshall to the supreme court] in exchange for Ramsey becoming Attorney General during the Johnson administration. [He was already around the bend] Soon after that he went kinda goofy, to say the least.
How many judges in America are going, "doh! why didn't I say that?"
I did not trust him way back then and nothing has changed my opinion since then.
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Clark's pro-tyranny stance has been so consistent over the past 38 years that it actually embarrasses many leftists, though only in private (Lenin forbid that they would break solidarity in public).
Besides his work on behalf of Saddam, Castro, Chavez, and the North Vietnamese, he was Ayatollah Khomeini's personal lawyer during the embassy hostage taking in 1979, and has represented cult freak Lyndon LaRouche.
It has not always been so. During his tenure as LBJ's Attorney General, Clark presided over the original "COINTELPRO" program to harrass anti-war activists and was the legal brain behind many of LBJ's more questionable actions.
Most interestingly, he was AG at the time of the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations in 1968, J. Edgar Hoover's boss for any practical purpose. Left-wing conspiracy theorists have implicated practically everyone who was in government at the time in the assassinations. They have even accused Richard Nixon, who was still a private citizen in 1968.
The notable exception to this avalanche of suspicion is also the most obvious suspect, Clark himself. Why does he get a pass from conspiracy buffs, beyond the simple loyalty of one depraved leftist for another?
This suggests a conspiracy hypothesis of my own: A major leftist, perhaps a journalist, somehow found the smoking gun of Clark's involvement before legitimate investigators did, and decided to use it to blackmail him into supporting "progressive" causes. Clark's u-turn to the far left started almost literally on the day he left office. Remember that many of the most prominent traitors in those days were quite young and they could easily be pulling Clark's strings to this day.
Maybe Clark's stupidly dogmatic anti-Americanism is really a strangled cry for help but the media themselves are too stupid, or complicit, to recognize it.
Contempt of court would have been appropriate for that contemptible old f*rt. He's done nothing but delay the course of justice in this trial.
Here is a link to some pics by AP.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/wl/052205saddamphotos/im:/061105/ids_photos_wl/r4221082219.jpg;_ylt=AtuY0iBV354OaAVXMDmN9trlWMcF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGcyMWMzBHNlYwNzc25hdg--
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