Posted on 10/29/2008 12:26:48 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn aren't Barack Obama's only terrorism problem.
A group of lawyers suing the United States to extend constitutional rights to enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo has endorsed Obama. Even more, the signatories say they "have been working closely with Senator Obama."
As if that isn't bad enough, one of the signatories who claims to have worked with Obama is head of a notorious legal activist group that has spent decades defending convicted terrorists and cop-killers.
I wonder what the National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) has to say about that since its September endorsement of Obama. NAPO says it represents "more than 2,000 police unions and associations" and "241,000 sworn law enforcement officers."
But the lawyers for the enemy combatants, terrorists and cop-killers endorsed Obama first. On January 28, 2008, "Habeas Lawyers for Obama," a group that describes itself as "deeply involved in the Guantanamo litigation" on behalf of enemy combatants, wrote a letter advocating Obama's candidacy. "We have worked closely with Senator Obama," the group said, calling habeas corpus under threat because of the treatment of the enemy combatants our troops captured in the war on terrorism.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
I guess the pro-terrorist lawyers werent impressed w McCain promising to close down Gitmo if he was elected...
No rights for enemies of America.
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