Who is Eric Holder?  Do you know?

If you read here, you (hopefully) know that he's currently our Attorney General.  What you may not know (or may only have heard in passing) is that he recently authorized 5 Guantanamo Bay detainees, all of the Al-Quaeda members and all involved in 9-11, to be tried in New York in civilian court.  Included among those five is none other than Kalid Sheik Mohammed, also known as KSM, the mastermind of 9-11.  This is shocking for many, many reasons.  Here are just some:
  -for all intents and purposes, these criminals are prisoners of war, and should be tried as such.  They have no business being tried in a civilian court.  We are not equipped to handle war crimes in civilian court.
  -his confession was given under duress.  Does that mean it gets thrown out?  Will he plead not guilty?
  -How are they going to give evidence without giving away national security, and putting our soldiers and CIA/FBI agents in major danger around the world?
  -how on earth are they going to find an unbiased jury of his peers?

The news of these trials is traumatizing to the families affected by 9-11 (http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/13/bombshell-obama-bringing-ksm-to-nyc-for-trial/), as it should be.  But, while this latest move is upsetting, it should hardly be surprising given Holder's past.  Here's just a sampling (aka the results of the research I did in 10 minutes):

-In 1976, just after graduating from law school, he spent a summer working for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
-During the Clinton years, Holder worked as a deputy attorney general.  During that time, he was involved in the pardon of Mark Rich (think of him as the 90's version of Bernie Madoff), the sentence reduction of 16 members of the Boricia Popular Army (a terrorist organization in Puerto Rico), and clemency to bombers of FALN (another terrorist organization in Puerto Rico).
-During his confirmation hearings, he was questioned on his beliefs (staunchly against) the death penalty.
-Once Bush took office in 2001, Holder left government work for a job at Covington and Burling in Washington, D.C., where he defended--and got sweetheart deals for-Chiquita (in US v. Chiquita, Chiquita was paying protection money-$1.7 million of it-to the AUC, a terrorist organization in Columbia), Purdue Pharm (he brought about the deal in West Virginia, where the company was accused of false marketing practices regarding the addictiveness of Oxycontin), and Merck (in a case about Medicaid overbilling and doctor kickbacks).
-Holder has already said that he will formally recuse himself from any case regarding quite a few Gitmo detainees; his old firm is defending 17 of them currently.  One of their successes, a terrorist who was repatraited to Kuwait in 2005, blew himself up in a truck bomb that killed 13 of our soldiers and injured 42 others.
-In addition, while in private practice he joined an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to uphold the Washington, D.C. gun ban (which, according to them-http://www.mcclatchydc.com/ homepage/story/42260.html-violated the 2nd Amendment)
-As our illustrious attorney general, he has called us a "nation of cowards" regarding race (February 18, 2009), has supported hate crimes legislation (since when is thought considered a crime?  How do you know what someone was thinking and feeling as they were committing a crime?), and has supported the investigations of CIA interrogation techniques, which gives our enemies (yes, we still have them) information about our techniques that they should never have.

What really gets my goat is Obama's reaction.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVUvtwTmaEw

He states with absolute confidence that KSM will get the death penalty.  But here's the thing that he (who went to law school and practiced law and was a legislator and is now our president) doesn't seem to understand but I (who did and is doing none of those things) seem to understand all too well.  Our country is great because everyone, no matter what, walks into a courtroom innocent until proven guilty.  They are guaranteed an impartial jury of their peers.  They are given their Mirada rights, including the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney, as they are arrested.  They get to defend themselves, and most choose to hire very good defenders to do it for them (which Holder should know, since he did that for 8 years).  They are protected from self-incrimination, and from being convicted for the same crime twice.  There are rules and protocols that are instituted by our Constitution that, especially in KSM's case where very little of the above has been true in his case, make sure someone is tried fairly.  The case is then handed over to the jury, where literally anything can happen.

So, in short, the only way Obama and Holder can guarantee that KSM is given the death penalty, is if he DOESN'T go to trial.  If he goes to trial, I can almost guarantee that he'll be found innocent by reason of prosecutorial misconduct, and be set free.

Then what?

Just this week, Holder was called before the Judiciary committee to explain himself.  Lindsay Graham, not my favorite senator ever (but definitely climbing my list) gave him a verbal skewering.  It was fun to listen to; it should be way more fun to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG7lm8Sfbo4

Finally, CNS news is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to go, and it's because of stuff like this:
http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/article/57309

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/18/culture-of-corruption-holder-terrorists-covington-burling/

Please say you at least question this judgement!
 
 
I didn't want to do it.  I REALLY didn't want to do it.  I was so hoping that this would just go away.  I truly hate being awake at 1:15 am for no good reason, because I end up doing really stupid things.

Like researching Jimmy Carter.

If you've been living under a rock since last week, then you may be one of the fortunate few who didn't know that former President Carter came out with the ridiculous notion that, if you disagreed with the President's stance on health care--specifically, if you were Joe Wilson calling the President a liar--you're a racist.  Slap my bum and hand me to my momma!

At this point, I can only laugh at this.  I mean, the word "racist" is being tossed around so lightly nowadays that, if I were a real racist, I would be offended by all the poser racists.  But what Jimmy secretly hoped you forget when he made this statement is that he actually is a racist.  But he's racist against a group that, to the left, it's okay to hate.

Jimmy is pretty much an unabashed anti-Semitic.

Over at the Jewish Press, way back in 2006, a delightful fellow by the name of Jason Maoz wrote this:  http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/19957/Media_Monitor.html
At that time, Carter was out stumping for his new book, "Palestine:  Peace Not Apartheid," which, incidentally, he admitted was not a great name for the book because of the whole inaccuracy thing.  But since it's meant to "stir up the conversation," I guess it's okay.

My point (quickly, because I'm tired), is this:  Jimmy hates the Jews.  And that, if someone doesn't step in to stop the insanity, the word "racism" is going to lose its meaning.  And since, in WAY too many cases for me to care to count, that's the only card most Democrats can play to support their policies, if they don't change something fast, their policies will sink faster than the Titanic.

Links (other than the one already provided):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011901541.html

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/12/13/cstillwell.DTL

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27248.html

Happy Rosh Hashanah!