Durbin Update

Power Line ^ | June 20

[NewMediaFan]

I called Senator Dick Durbin's office this morning at (202) 224-2152 and, after being on hold for a while, laid out the reasons why I think Durbin should resign from the Senate. His staffer told me that as of this morning, he is standing by his statement comparing American soldiers to the Nazis, the Communists and the Khmer Rouge. There was one caveat, however: the staffer told me that Durbin never actually said "American soldiers," and that there are also contract interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. I asked whether Durbin was trying to claim that everything bad about Gitmo was the fault of civilians, and the army has nothing to do with it. She backtracked quickly and denied that this was Durbin's theory--it would, of course, be an absurd claim since the military runs Guantanamo Bay and sets the policies there. Her evasion shows, though, how deeply dishonest Durbin's position is.

We'd be interested to hear from others how their calls to Durbin's office are received.

[ncountylee]

Durbin is now searching for a dead guy to blame.

[FormerACLUmember]

Dick.

Durbin.

The 100% pig-like, traitorous, libelous, buffoonish, vile, loathsome, profoundly dishonest, obstructionist, corrupt, deceitful, anti-American, devisive, manipulative fecal-mass-pretending-to-be-a-human.

[TheDon]

Durbinism - Anti-American statements, made by Americans, for political gain, whether or not those who make the statements believe them.

[RoseofTexas]

Apparently Durbin is going to be the star host for a DNC fund raisers this week...so I guess the DemoCRAP party isn't taking this too seriously! His Nazi comment isn't on the mediaWHORES radar either, so I guess, just like that liberal idiot Churchill, the presstitutes think the longer they continue to shield this traitor the chances are, folk will forget with time!

[peacebaby]

This is reminding me of the joke about the BIG MOUTHED FROG!.

We should keep the heat on Durbin.

[meandog]

GITMO is a Navy Base...there are NO Army MPs guarding prisoners there, instead the guards are either Marine NCOs or Navy Master-at-Arms rated petty officers.

[peacebaby]

what exactly is the definition of "treason?"

[dts32041]

Just some current thoughts about the senior senator from illinois.

You have no shame and the demo rt party has no shame.

[Txsleuth]

The fact is, that Durbin said "Americans" twice in the last paragraph of his speech---both times linking them to the "abuse/torture" at Gitmo....

We don't know right now, who for sure was in charge of these detainees, but just that fact that they are Americans, and Durbin, who doesn't know who they are either, is comparing them to the SS, Soviet gulag guards, the the Khmer Rouge....is enough to make him leave...IMHO

[Hostage]

Well he got his 15 minutes of Jerry Springer-like infamy. Now more people know his name, etc.

Funny how some union people I know agree with Durbin. They'll do and say anything to knock down this country when a Republican is at the helm.

The stench of democrats these days is unbearable.

[FormerACLUmember]

Mr. Hector Gutierrez
Gutierrez Bros. Landscaping
Arlington, VA

Dear Mr. Gutierrez:

Nothing could have prepared me for the shock that awaited as I exited the front door of my home early Wednesday morning, where I discovered that your lawn crew had cut a swath of environmental destruction across my yard so horrifying that it only can be compared to the Rape of Nanking. I can scarcely bring myself to describe the killing fields that are my North azalea beds and the brutal degradation and torture suffered by the bluegrass around the locust tree by the rear patio. I am writing to inform you that I have contacted the US Department of Interior to conduct a full independent investigation into Gutierrez Brothers' actions in this matter. Please be advised that you may be subpoenaed for records pertaining to mower height, pruning shear maintenance, and leaf blower emissions. I would also advise your crewmen to heed the lessons of the Judgement At Nurenburg: although they may be spared the justice due their superiors, "I was only following orders" is not an excuse.

Sincerely,

Senator Richard J. Durbin
Washington, DC

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Customer Relations Department
United Airlines
Elk Grove Village, IL

Dear Sir or Madam:

In the dark annals of human evil, history has recorded the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocides, and Stalin's mass starvation program. And now, United Airlines flight 671 from Reagan International to Chicago O'Hare on June 3rd, 2005. I know, because I am a survivor of that dark exemplar of man's cruelty to man.

Perhaps I should have known what I was in for when your brusque gate agent refused to issue an upgrade to me for the flight (despite being a Premier/1K member for over 10 years), or when your flight crew Gestapo confiscated my carry on Roll Tote (even though I had nearly fit it into the overhead bin). But the true measure of the horror did not dawn on me until me and my fellow passengers were left taxiing on the O'Hare tarmack for over twenty minutes in the Auschwitzian Airbus A320 cattlecar, in temperatures approaching 85 degrees, not knowing our fates or whether we would make it to our fundraising dinners.

Santayana once said, "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." And I say to you and your fellow United criminals: "never again," unless you credit my account at least 2 flight segments for this travesty.

Sincerely,

Senator Richard J. Durbin
Washington, DC

cc: Human Rights Watch
cc: Amnesty International

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Ms. He-Sook Park
AAA Georgetown Drycleaning
Washington, DC

Dear Ms. Park:

To paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemoeller, a witness to the Shoah:

First they frayed the hem on my wife's Valentino gown
My staff aide did not speak out
Because it was my wife's and it wasn't that noticeable

When they didn't honor the 5-for-$4.99 tie coupon
My staff aide did not speak out
Because the small print said "good Tuesday to Friday"

And when they overstarched my best Brooks Brothers shirts
there was no one left to speak out to
Because your counter attendant did not speak English

I will no longer stay silent in the face of your cruel and sickening campaign of chemical fabricide, Ms. Park. Mankind will soon learn of the horrors you are hiding behind the flimsy facade of 'One Hour Martinizing.' I expect full reparations for the suffering of my wardrobe, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Senator Richard J. Durbin
Washington, DC

P.S. -- Could you hem a pair of casual trousers before Saturday? I have a DNC retreat coming up.

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Epstein
3786 Arbor Cove
Fairfax, VA

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Epstein:

In her diaries, Anne Frank wrote, "After all that has happened, I still believe there is good in everyone." I am sad to say that after the obscene neighborhood parking situation Saturday, prompted by your son Jacob's Bar Mitzvah at Congregation Beth Shalom, I cannot reach the same optimistic conclusion.

As I witnessed one after another of your uniformed parking attendant shock troops invading my cul de sac with menacing SUVs, eventual blocking my driveway, I could not help but imagine the raw panic that must have gripped the doomed souls that inhabited the ghettos of Warsaw in 1939. Although the traffic jam eventually passed over when your took your adolescent blitzkreig on to Lazer FunZone, I am not sure I will ever fully recover from the trauma.

Never again, Mr. and Mrs. Epstein. Never again.

Sincerely,

Senator Richard J. Durbin
Washington, DC

(from IowaHawk

[TheOtherOne]

"what exactly is the definition of "treason?""




I posted a thread on the legal history of TREASON here yesterday:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1426295/posts

[technomage]

What is almost just as disgusting as Turbin's remarks is the fact that not one prominent Congressional Republican has condemned his comments.

Yes, Newt has, but who else? Where is McPain? Where is Frist? Where are the so-called moderate 7?

[roses of sharon]

We should find out by having our own "hearings", like HUAC of the 50s.

Have them covered by C-Span.

And let the public see and hear actually statements by the left and their co-horts in the NY elite press.

[Hostage]

I am sure there are Defense Intelligence and CIA specialists there that are monitoring the prisoners.

Given that these Al-Queda prisoners were associated with or contributed to mass murder of innocent civilians, I would be in favor of public hangings of their leaders and life imprisonment under harsh yet humane conditions for the remainder. For example, solitary confinement is harsh yet humane.

After all isn't that exactly how American military forces handled captured members of Hitler's SS?

[caver]

The poor unsuspecting voters of Illinois are continuing to be likened to those of Massachusetts. They just lose their minds at voting time.

[TheOtherOne]

Hmm, maybe Hagel? . . . nah

"Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality," said Hagel, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. "It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."

[sine_nomine]

Giving aid and comfort to the enemy. That is treason.

[peacebaby]

Sorry I didn't freep yesterday, will check out this link.

i've faxed a definition of treason to Durbin's office.