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Ratner...

The general leading the force to free the captive enemy from the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, and inflict a humiliating defeat on the United States is so-called “civil rights” and “Constitutional” attorney Michael Ratner. It was Ratner who led the way in recruiting elite lawyers to defend the enemy combatants being interrogated at Gitmo. But Ratner is a long-time leader of two pro-Communist and anti-American organizations who have for decades have lent aid and comfort to America's enemies in the Cold War and beyond.
Michael Ratner is a lawyer who began his legal career in the late 1960s at the National Lawyers Guild, a Soviet created front group which still embraces its Communist heritage. He worked his way up through the NLG’s radical ranks to become its president, then moved on to hold the same position at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which share's the NLG's anti-American radicalism and was founded by pro-Castro lawyers Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler. Among its many outrages, the CCR has defended domestic and international terrorists, and has honored Ratner's NLG colleague and convicted terrorist enabler Lynne Stewart, a modern Legal Left idol.
Since 9/11, Ratner and his comrades have attempted to extend undeserved “civil rights” on Islamist murderers with notable success. On this front, Ratner and the Legal Left have dealt America its few setbacks in the War on Terror.
...As the wreckage of the Twin Towers was still smoldering, Michael Ratner began planning his attack on America’s post-9/11 defense strategy. Realizing that it would take major legal clout to seriously subvert the War on Terror, Ratner began taking steps to attract major U.S law firms to his cause. First, he adopted a high public profile against the Bush administration’s reaction to 9/11 by savaging every facet of its plan to protect the U.S. from future attack. Working the “civil liberties” angle for all its worth, Ratner raged at the Patriot Act, railed against profiling techniques designed to ferret out Islamic terrorists in our midst, and opposed invading Afghanistan to hunt down and capture Osama bin Laden and his Taliban henchmen.
The mainstream press assisted Ratner by promoting him as a champion of civil rights while carefully hiding his lifelong radicalims from the American public. When the Islamists’ battleground changed, Ratner took a prominent role in antiwar movement by opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom. Ratner became a staple of antiwar, anti-Bush events. More importantly, he filed a series of high-profile nuisance suits against the Bush administration, one of which attempted to have Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrested and tried for “war crimes” by German courts.
... Ratner chose to sing Che’s praises in a 1997 book: "for many of us seeking to change our society, Cuba was a desirable model. And it was Ché Guevara, more than any other figure, who embodied both that revolution and solidarity with peoples fighting to be free from U.S. hegemony…Ché has remained my hero ever since."
In the same book, Ratner recounts a hiking trip he once took to retrace the path of Guevara: "Tears streamed down my cheeks, my energy was renewed and I completed the hike. To be like Ché: To be selfless, to make a family of one’s comrades, to give up comfort and material gain for the revolution, to risk and probably give one’s life to free humanity. "
......The George Soros-funded Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, and other leftist support groups began heavily funding Ratner and CCR’s anti-Bush, antiwar, anti-American agendas.------- "The Man Behind the Attack on Guantanamo," By Rocco DiPippo, FrontPageMagazine.com, June 16, 2005 front page mag

WOW, this would be pure comedy if the issues involved were not so grave. I knew that Ratner was an ardent supporter of some of the world's worst thugs and dictators ala Castro and Che, but I had never seen this about his ludicrous verbal orgasm thinking of his hero Che. To think this bozo Ratner has been allowed to drive so much of the public debate and legal climate surrounding the WOT, and that the MSM never even hints that he is a rabid delusional commie hack, well that is truly disgusting.

... Ratner chose to sing Che’s praises in a 1997 book: "for many of us seeking to change our society, Cuba was a desirable model. And it was Ché Guevara, more than any other figure, who embodied both that revolution and solidarity with peoples fighting to be free from U.S. hegemony…Ché has remained my hero ever since." In the same book, Ratner recounts a hiking trip he once took to retrace the path of Guevara: "Tears streamed down my cheeks, my energy was renewed and I completed the hike. To be like Ché: To be selfless, to make a family of one’s comrades, to give up comfort and material gain for the revolution, to risk and probably give one’s life to free humanity. "

Piasa, you are a great American. Outstanding posts on this topic.

Filmcutter:

You’ve got to be kidding me. This was an extended tantric orgasm of BDS revisionism, with nary a contrary detail or argument ever intruding upon the Bushitler fantasy version of events. Joe Wilson, Vince Cannistraro, Richard Clarke, Paul Pillar and the commie Ratner all presented without even the slightest hint of of their many lies, their blazing axe-grinding and their infantile stupidity. The counter viewpoint is not merely not presented, its existence is never even hinted at. No interviews with the principals who are relentlessly slandered throughout the broadcast is ever presented. Things which are absolutely false - but which are essential to the BDS narrative - are presented as the revealed word of the Almighty. The part I saw was about as intellectually dishonest as it could possibly be. It is crude propaganda, using every manipulative and deceptive technique at the filmmaker’s command. It is an achievement in that regard, but no other.