Posted on 06/16/2006 3:13:03 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
June 16, 2006
As this op-ed column from today's Los Angeles Times illustrates, the MSM and the left-dominated American academy continue to side, in the name of 'human rights', against measures designed to protect us from another 9/11 and with those who might potentially do us harm.
Author David Cole, a law professor at Georgetown University and volunteer attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, was co-counsel to the plaintiffs in Turkmen vs. Ashcroft. He condemns the district court ruling in that case, which, as described in this article from Jurist, held:
"The US government can detain non-citizens indefinitely on the basis of religion, race or national origin, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying that 'the executive is free to single out 'nationals of a particular country' and focus enforcement efforts on them.'"
Back to the Cole op-ed - the good professor darkly warns that the court ruling could lead to mass Muslim internment, in the same way Japanese-Americans were interned during WWII.
But there is one major difference that Cole chooses to overlook. In WWII, the US interned US citizens. They were Japanese-Americans.
Here, the judge authorizes the focus of enforcement activity on people who not only are foreign citizens, but ones that are very likely here illegally.
Cole conveniently fails to mention that the judged ruled that the enforcement focus can only occur "only if [the aliens'] deportation is 'highly foreseeable.'" Moreover, the judge permitted to go forward those parts of the lawsuit alleging abuse while in detention.
The contrast with the WWII bogeyman Cole invokes could not be more clear. There, American citizens suspected of nothing other than being of Japanese descent were interned. Here, foreign citizens strongly suspected of being here illegally are subject to detention. And what's more, even in such circumstances, the right of such putatively illegal aliens to sue for improper detention conditions is respected.
But trust the left to side against strong security measures every time. And if the good professor had prevailed in his suit, and some day one of his clients committed a terrorist act against the US, you could count on the same left to be first in line to condemn the government - a la the Jersey Girls - for its failure to prevent the attack.
LA Times/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.
Click on NewsBusters link for column containing links to LA Times op-ed and Jurist article describing case.
Why not? Their hero F.D.R. did it to the Japanese.
This seems to be ignored for the most part....http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1153885
LA Times....line the parrot cage with it..........
By funny coincidence, I will be lining my parrot cage in a few minutes. I'll be using the Ithaca Journal, though!
L.O.L....liberal throw away rags they all be....
While we are putting muzzies in camps, can't we intern dims also? Hell, lets put them in the same camp and see what happens!
LLS
David Cole is a big supporter of Lynne Stewart, who was found guilty of using her privileged position as the lawyer of the so-called "Blind Sheik," the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing She passed messages between the jailed terrorist and his terrorist followers in Egypt.
During a visit to Sheik Omar Abdel el-Rahman's cell in Minnesota in 2000, she and a translator conspired to distract prison officials in order to receive and later deliver a coded directive whose purpose was to initiate new terrorist acts in Egypt.
Stewart's conviction is a powerful reminder of an important strain on the far Left in this country and elsewhere — a set of beliefs that cast the United States as the Great Satan and lionizes anyone who declares himself America's enemy.
Guess who introduced Lynne Stewart to the client who would eventually become her terror master? None other than Ramsey Clark, the LBJ's Attorney General of the United States who is now serving as a lawyer for Saddam Hussein.
Did not know this...
Do you miss Katy yet?
Me too; musing about why the terrorists among them are still breathing!
I'm counting on Meredith to be every bit as biased!
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