Posted on 06/02/2005 12:57:29 PM PDT by rightalien
WASHINGTON -- Our war against terror is in trouble now. Lawyers from some of our most prestigious law firms are trundling down to Guantanamo Bay to represent detainees. If any group in America can bring a project to foozle it would be a group of American lawyers intent on humanitarian service. It is only a matter of time before a new Ramsey Clark Jr. emerges to fill American courts with bogus legal charges to stoke international anti-Americanism. Then accomplished poseurs such as the Clintons and Jean-Francois Kerry can chirp up about how the whole world is increasingly hostile to us. They will, of course, urge the Bush Administration to Washington heed the concerns of "the world community."
Frankly I would like to be on hand when these sleek American lawyers arrive in Gitmo, particularly if they include members of the fair sex. The detainees are all very pious Islamacists. Surely these enlightened lady lawyers will have the decency to wear the requisite abaya, the national dress of Saudi Arabia that covers Saudi cuties in one heap of cloth from head to toe. If such garments are not available in New York or Washington perhaps purchasing a small tent from L.L Bean will do. Surely our lady lawyers will not be so disrespectful as to wear perfume or for that matter even deodorant, which among the devout detainees is sure to be considered sacrilegious. Also I suspect the ladies will know enough to walk several paces behind their men folk. Islamic sensibilities must be observed -- and, incidentally, this custom is one for which I have some sympathy.
I am told that the lawyers might have difficulty gaining the trust of the aggrieved detainees at Gitmo. They are a touchy bunch. The very thought of Westerners provokes them to blow themselves up and anyone nearby. Yet they have these complaints about our soldiers treating them discourteously and in contravention of Geneva protocols on the humane treatment of prisoners. Well, send in a few lady lawyers with promises of legal assistance and the possibility of being sprung from this Gitmo calaboose and allowed to fly off to their Middle Eastern paradises. Do you remember the reports in the Weekly Standard of some of the detainees' response to the presence of female American soldiers at Gitmo? The chaps exposed their male members and masturbated. In some instances they would reach for their toothbrushes and perform unspeakable acts with the brushes on parts of their anatomy that would amaze our female soldiers. Well, an American lady lawyer on a humanitarian mission will know the proper response. She might read the Bill of Rights to her client. She might bill her office overtime.
Yes, there is farce surrounding the arrival of American lawyers at Gitmo to assist these savage men whose favorite pastime is murder. The detainees are not soldiers, conventionally understood. They are among the most dangerous people on earth. For a certitude, our government is faced with a very difficult set of problems in handling them, either for intelligence purposes or to keep them from going back and killing more of their neighbors and our forces.
The humane treatment of prisoners is a Western idea, and it is good that we have organizations devoted to monitoring that treatment. Yet even here there is farce. Imagine Amnesty International recently comparing our facility at Guantanamo Bay with the Gulag where millions of Russians perished. Then Amnesty International called for the arrest and trial of Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and former CIA Director George Tenet.
General Richard B. Meyers responded to these imbecilic statements by saying, "I think I'd ask them [Amnesty International's provocateurs] to go look up the definition of gulag as commonly understood. We've had 68,000 detainees since this conflict against violent extremism started. We've had 325 investigations into alleged abuse. We've had 100 cases of substantiated abuse and there are 100 individuals that have had some sort of action taken, either court-martial or administrative action." Yes, general, and now we have the lawyers involved. With a little luck they will turn Guantanamo into Bill Clinton's impeachment revels or the Michael Jackson trial.
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator, a contributing editor to the New York Sun, and an adjunct scholar at the Hudson Institute. His latest book is Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House (Regnery Publishing).
Good God! What part of the war don't these jerks understand? The prisoners at Gitmo want nothing more than to blow American heads off. These islamic murderers are prisoners of war and treated as such. They don't have any rights.
The American left will continue to encourage our enemies until a major city is levelled or rendered otherwise uninhabitable. Then the tide will turn and the outrage may have the instigators on the gibbet along side the terrorists. A high price to pay for being fools.
Good Lord. Terrorist sympathizers, all.
Or we'll end up like Spain.
On what grounds do civilians, like the aforementioned attorneys, get admitted to a US military reservation, especially when they weren't invited?
No, when a dirty bomb goes off in NYC or LA et al, the American left will claim it is GWB's fault, like everything else. They will call for a national day of atonement, wailing, and self-flagellation so we can better understand what we've done to provoke such an obvious cry for help from the poor oppressed terrorist fanatics freedom fighters*
(* the freedom they're fighting for is the right for you to worship as they please)
Thanks for posting. I now have that stupid Judy Collins song embedded in my mind. {Searching for brick wall to beat head against...}
Shades of that planeload of lawyers winging their way towards Bhopal.
Could be worse. Could have referred to that inane cake in the rain song!
LOL, so true. Could ALWAYS be worse!
let's just see how trusting these lefist lawyers are. They should all carry with them a large knife and request the detainee interviews be done in a locked room.
The first thing they should do is hand the detainee the knife and then start the interview.
"They will call for a national day of atonement, wailing, and self-flagellation so we can better understand what we've done to provoke such an obvious cry for help from the poor oppressed terrorist fanatics freedom fighters*"
I don't think so. Remember how quiet they were right after 9/11? One radio talk show guy (ok, it was Michael Savage) declared the left clinically dead. After such a tragedy, the vocal leftists will likely draw fire, and I don't mean figuratively, from the previously silent, apathetic majority.
maybe for a few days, but don't count on any lasting effects
Most of these lawyers belong to big firms. Why are those law firms not being publicized and boycotted? Most of those law firms have big ticket clients, why has the trail not been tracked down and pressure put on the clients. For the record, I checked and the law firm I use has no part in this.
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