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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Attorney General Eric Holder</title>
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		<title>Holder: I&#8217;ve Shown Respect Where I Haven&#8217;t Been Given Any</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2014 15:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn't about respect. It's about doing the right thing.]]></description>
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<p>In an interview, Attorney General Eric Holder is once again complaining that, like Rodney Dangerfield, he can&#8217;t get any respect.</p>
<blockquote><p>I would hope that my successor would not have to endure some of the things that I did. And I say “endure” only because I think I&#8217;ve shown respect where, perhaps, I haven&#8217;t been given any.</p></blockquote>
<p>The question is why does Holder believe that he&#8217;s particularly entitled to respect?</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve been hearing this line from Obama and his cronies for a while now. People are disrespecting Obama by not calling him president (but calling Bush, Bush, was just fine).</p>
<p>The issue isn&#8217;t respect. It&#8217;s the law.</p>
<p>You aren&#8217;t entitled to respect commensurate with your position. That&#8217;s how it works in feudal societies. The respect you are entitled to is based on how you comport yourself in that position.</p>
<p>When you disrespect the entire nation by calling it a &#8220;nation of cowards&#8221; then why should you expect to exchange disrespect for respect?</p>
<p>But respect or disrespect isn&#8217;t the point. What Holder calls disrespect mainly consists of attempts to hold him accountable for blatantly violating the law and obstructing justice.</p>
<p>Holder considers that disrespectful.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s the problem here. This isn&#8217;t about respect. It&#8217;s about doing the right thing.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t hijack the government, violate the law, lie about it, obstruct justice, get people killed and then complain that you aren&#8217;t getting enough respect.</p>
<p>Respect is a form. If everything else is in working order, it&#8217;s there. If isn&#8217;t, then there&#8217;s no place for respect either.</p>
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		<title>Holder&#8217;s View on Racial Profiling Too Extreme Even for Obama Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revised rules exempt the TSA and Border Patrol]]></description>
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<p>Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s political extremism was a low point for his office, but <a href="%20Holder's View on Racial Profiling Too Extreme Even for Obama Inc.">he&#8217;s become too extreme even </a>for other figures in the administration who are themselves well left of center.</p>
<blockquote><p>The first major revisions of US racial profiling rules in over a decade required the African-American men who steer the United States government to check their own civil rights ideals against the demands of national defense.</p>
<p>But as federal officials prepared the new guidelines, three men steeped in civil rights history and tribulations – Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and President Obama – clashed over its breadth and impact.</p>
<p>Consequently, the rules, to be released only weeks before Holder leaves office, exempt large agencies, including the Transportation Safety Administration, which secures airports, and the Border Patrol, which secures the border, from having to ignore visual traits as objects of suspicion.</p>
<p>According to published reports, Mr. Johnson worried that eliminating profiling altogether could hurt national defense by handcuffing agents trying to infiltrate ethnic populations, including Hispanic and Islamic neighborhoods, more likely to include individuals threatening national security.</p>
<p>According to the Times, Holder believed border agents had no reason to consider race or ethnicity, but Johnson’s DHS pushed back against factors that could impede investigations involving illegal immigrants. DHS officials said, bottom line, that it was impractical to ignore people’s ethnicity while trying to do work at the border.</p></blockquote>
<p>Border security has mostly been dismantled under Obama and the TSA bends over backward to avoid profiling, but the TSA does function as a political firewall and Jeh Johnson doesn&#8217;t want a terrorist attack blamed on racial profiling rules. In this he&#8217;s showing more foresight than Holder who didn&#8217;t seem to care about the consequences at all.</p>
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		<title>Most Americans Say Justice Dept Puts Politics Over Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holder and the DOJ have lost the confidence of the American people. ]]></description>
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<p>Most Americans normally don&#8217;t pay attention to the DOJ. <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/198040-poll-majority-of-americans-think-holders-doj-motivated-by-politics/">It&#8217;s a tribute to Holder that they&#8217;ve paid enough </a>attention now to reach this conclusion.</p>
<blockquote><p>A growing number of Americans say they believe the U.S. Department of Justice is motivated primarily by political interests and not by the pursuit of the truth, according to a survey from Rasmussen Reports.</p>
<p>The poll, which was conducted on Aug. 26-27 and contains a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, found that only 38 percent of U.S. voters hold a favorable opinion of the department headed by Attorney General Eric Holder, while a much larger 53 percent hold an unfavorable opinion.</p>
<p>Further, of these respondents, only nine percent hold a “very favorable” opinion, while 26 percent hold a “very unfavorable” position.</p>
<p>But this is the really unsettling discovery in the survey: “Just 35% think the Justice Department is more concerned with making sure justice is done when it decides to investigate a local crime independent of local police. But 54% think instead that the Justice Department is more concerned with politics when it makes those decisions.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Holder and the DOJ have lost the confidence of the American people. Removing Holder from the office he has abused for so long is the first step to restoring the confidence of the American people in the Department of Justice.</p>
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		<title>Obama and Holder Tried to Prevent Release of Michael Brown Robbery Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 14:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.”]]></description>
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<p>Holder&#8217;s Justice Department attempted to suppress the release of the video in order to promote the Trayvonization of Michael Brown.</p>
<p>Covering up the truth is second nature to these people, whether it&#8217;s deleting IRS emails, blaming YouTube for a terrorist attack on US diplomats or holding back a tape showing that the latest innocent 300 lb &#8220;child&#8221; was a criminal.</p>
<p>Obama Inc. has nothing but contempt for transparency and FOIA requests, but Ferguson cops on the other hand knew that<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/feds-urged-police-not-release-michael-brown-robbery-video-n182346"> they were being lynched and had no choice</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Department of Justice urged Ferguson police not to release surveillance video purporting to show Michael Brown robbing a store shortly before he was shot and killed by police, arguing the footage would further inflame tensions in the St. Louis suburb that saw rioting and civil unrest in the wake of the teenager’s death.</p>
<p>Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson released the video Friday, telling reporters that he had no choice because the media requested the release under the Freedom of Information Act. The Department of Justice, which is conducting its own investigation into Brown’s Aug. 9 death, has had a copy of the footage all along and never considered releasing it to the public, the source said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Flashback<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/holder-doj-can-change-america-to-prep-for-demographic-change-2/"> to what the new DOJ stands for</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,” Holder said. “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Taxpayers Paid $14K to Fly Holder, his Daughters and their Boyfriends to the Races</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2014 13:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Gang is living it up better than ever. ]]></description>
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<p>Who says living standards are down? The Obama Gang is living it up better than ever. Want to take in the horses? Just jet on over. The American people will cover most of it. Bring your daughters. Bring their boyfriends.</p>
<p><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/11/what-taxpayers-pay-when-eric-holder-uses-government-jets-for-personal-trips/?advD=1248,41002">Uncle Sam is footing the bill.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>On a pleasant Saturday this summer, Eric Holder, his daughters, their boyfriends and two security officers boarded a government-owned Gulfstream and jetted off to New York for the Belmont Stakes Thoroughbred horse race.</p>
<p>Even for personal trips like this, the attorney general doesn’t fly commercial. For security reasons, Holder — like other top government officials — flies a government plane, though is required to reimburse taxpayers for airfare.</p>
<p>According to records obtained by The Daily Caller through a Freedom of Information Act request, Holder is getting pretty good deal here — especially when he flies a government-owned Gulfstream V jet.</p>
<p>That one day trip to Elmont, N.Y. on June 7, according to records provided to TheDC by the Department of Justice, ended up costing the government $14,440.</p>
<p>But Holder only had to reimburse the government $955 for flying him and four passengers to the final leg of the Triple Crown horse races that day.</p></blockquote>
<p>A nation of cowards indeed.</p>
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		<title>Holder: DOJ Can Change America to Prep for Demographic Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ "Demographic change... the likes of which this country has never seen" ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_236178" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/holder-sharpton.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-236178" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/holder-sharpton-450x327.jpg" alt="No racism to see here" width="450" height="327" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">No racism to see here</p></div>
<p>I&#8217;ll say this for our criminal Attorney General,<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/195331-race-baiting-attorney-general-america-is-still-a-racist-country/"> he comes a lot closer to saying what </a>he really means than Obama does. And what he says and what he means are both ominous.</p>
<blockquote><p>(Holder) is also critical of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts’ famous formula — “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race” — troubles him.</p>
<p>“There are still [racial] issues we as a society are working our way through,” Holder said. “And the lack of desire to do that, I think, undermines the ability that I think is inherent in the American people to make progress. But it also does not prepare us for demographic changes, the likes of which this country has never seen.”</p>
<p>He added: “The justice system is part of the larger society and to the extent there are racial issues we are still grappling with, it is not a shock that you are going to see them in the justice system… [There is] a whole range of ways the justice system, if it is run properly, can make this country the country it wants to be.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Not subtle.</p>
<p>We are to prepare for &#8220;demographic change&#8230; the likes of which this country has never seen&#8221; and Holder and his DOJ&#8217;s abuse of power will prepare us for that, in no small part through mass importation of illegal aliens.</p>
<p>And then there&#8217;s a whole range of ways that the Justice Department, which is supposed to handle law enforcement, will &#8220;make this country&#8221; what a bunch of leftist thugs want it to be.</p>
<blockquote><p>“If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,” he said. “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>So much for democracy and the rule of law. 2008 was really the Chicago Revolutionary Commune seizing power and implementing its ideology through unilateral action and abuse of power.</p>
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		<title>Worst Attorney General Ever Still Blaming Racism for Everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Attorney General Eric Holder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Holder doubles down on "Nation of Cowards"]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_236178" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/holder-sharpton.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-236178" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/holder-sharpton-450x327.jpg" alt="No racism to see here" width="450" height="327" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">No racism to see here</p></div>
<p>You smuggled weapons to drug cartels in order to undermine the Bill of Rights and that led to the murder of a Border Patrol agent.</p>
<p>You sat shotgun on an administration that engaged in unprecedented violations of civil rights and the law, including using the IRS to target political opponents, and you covered for it all.</p>
<p>You shouldn&#8217;t have even become Attorney General considering your illegal activities toward the end of the Clinton administration.</p>
<p>Your big achievement in office was to release a bunch of drug dealers.</p>
<p><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/212082-holder-sees-racial-animus-in-opposition">So what do you blame? Racism</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday he and President Obama have been targets of “a racial animus” by some of the administration’s political opponents.</p>
<p>“There&#8217;s a certain level of vehemence, it seems to me, that&#8217;s directed at me [and] directed at the president,” Holder told ABC. “You know, people talking about taking their country back. … There&#8217;s a certain racial component to this for some people. I don’t think this is the thing that is a main driver, but for some there&#8217;s a racial animus.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>During the Bush years, liberals ranting about taking the country were just being patriotic&#8230; because patriotism was the highest form of dissent.</p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s the highest form of racism.</p>
<blockquote><p>He also stood by his controversial comments made during Obama’s first year in office, in which he said the U.S. was a “nation of cowards” when it comes to race.</p>
<p>“I wouldn&#8217;t walk away from that speech,” Holder said. “I think we are still a nation that is too afraid to confront racial issues,” rarely engaging “one another across the color line [to] talk about racial issues.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230; says the man who is constantly accusing everyone of racism.</p>
<p>Then Holder accused Republicans of racism for wanting Voter ID (even though they&#8217;re supposed by everyone of all races) , ranted about Sarah Palin and demanded that the name of the Redskins be changed.</p>
<p>If you disagree, well you already know.</p>
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		<title>Obama Supports Holder Because &#8220;He&#8217;s a Race Man&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aides would be calling the threesome of Obama, Jarrett and Holder the “iron triangle.”]]></description>
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<p>Nice to have that in the open. <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-survivor-108018.html#.U6y6c_lr7J9">The Politico story on why Holder survived</a> comes down to Obama&#8217;s fear of an honest Attorney General (Holder has never been accused of being anything other than a political hack with no respect for the law) and race.</p>
<blockquote><p>It may well be the main reason the first black president of the United States has stood so firmly behind the first black attorney general of the United States: Holder has been willing to say the things Obama couldn’t or wouldn’t say about race.</p>
<p>“He’s a race man,” says Charles Ogletree, a longtime friend of Holder’s who taught and mentored Obama and his wife, Michelle, as Harvard Law School students in the 1980s. “He’s gone farther and deeper into some issues of race than the White House would like, but I know he has the president’s well-wishes. It’s clear [Obama and Holder] believe in the same things.”</p>
<p>Holder himself recently told another African-American friend that he feels part of his job is “to talk about things the president can’t talk about as easily.”</p>
<p>Asked to describe Holder’s role, one of his former top aides described him as “Obama’s heat shield.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course that&#8217;s not the Attorney General&#8217;s job. But Holder puts Team Obama ahead of Team America. He&#8217;s a race man.</p>
<blockquote><p>From the start, the White House staff has been at odds with Holder—a conflict that, my sources told me, has been one of the longest-running hidden dramas of this White House. “He says he’s on Team Obama, but he’s really on Team Holder,” one top Obama aide told me.</p>
<p>The bad blood goes all the way back to a month into Obama’s first term—as the West Wing staff was working 18-hour days to keep the economy from collapsing—when Holder jolted Obama’s team seemingly out of nowhere. Tellingly, the subject was race. Holder informed the White House he planned to deliver a Black History Month speech but never got around to telling Obama’s aides what he would actually say, a habit that would infuriate the White House time and again over the years—and underscore Holder’s special standing in Obama’s world.</p>
<p>“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” Holder declared to a gathering of Justice Department employees—a bombshell assertion that caused the predictable rage among Obama’s attackers on the right, who accused him of playing the race card.</p>
<p>Obama’s top political aides—white liberals to a man, and they were all men—didn’t necessarily disagree with Holder’s sentiment; they just thought it was a dumb way of saying it and dangerously ill-timed to boot. Obama was ticked off, too, and did nothing to stop his top advisers David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, Robert Gibbs and Jim Messina from severely restricting Holder’s public utterances and imposing a ban on Sunday show appearances that stands to this day.</p>
<p>But the president’s anger only went so far, and Holder takes no small satisfaction in outlasting those early rivals. In interviews, many of the officials I spoke with offered a blunt explanation for his bond with Obama: For all the president’s success at breaking barriers, Obama is often the only black person in the room when a major decision is being made&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s your post-racial America on a plate. More racist than ever before.</p>
<blockquote><p>The matchmaker who had brought the two couples together was the ever-present Jarrett&#8230;</p>
<p>Holder’s own bond with Jarrett was cemented in 2007 when the two hosted weekly conference calls with other black leaders on behalf of the Obama campaign&#8230;</p>
<p>Soon, other aides would be calling the threesome of Obama, Jarrett and Holder the “iron triangle.”</p>
<p>Holder, Jarrett and Susan Rice, then Obama’s U.N. ambassador, were among the few administration officials to receive regular invitations to the president’s private residence in the White House.</p>
<p>Increasingly, Jarrett was providing Holder with support and a back channel for him to appeal decisions made by Obama’s political team. (Holder’s “appeals court” is how some West Wingers saw her.)</p>
<p>Holder views the vote as emblematic of Republicans’ disrespect for Obama and himself, and he thinks that race is one, but not the only, factor in their attacks.</p>
<p>Two people in Holder&#8217;s orbit told me he has described appearing before congressional committees as an experience akin to staring at a hostile “wall of Southern men.”</p>
<p>Holder often commiserates about his grillings, via text messages and email, with a group of supportive African-American journalists and public figures, including Rev. Al Sharpton; Juan Williams, the NPR commentator turned Fox contributor; former CNN analyst Roland Martin; Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post; NPR’s Michele Norris; and her husband, Broderick Johnson, a White House aide—a cadre that often encourages Holder to push back harder than his more cautious in-house advisers.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>The Killer of Brian Terry is Finally in Custody, his Gun Dealer is Still the Attorney General</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2014 20:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard to enforce the law when the top cop is a criminal.]]></description>
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<p>The good news is the<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/06/18/suspect-in-brian-terrys-murder-extradicted-to-the-united-states-n1853124"> US is finally getting its hands on another of the murderers of a Border Patrol agent</a>. Unfortunately the man who got the killer his gun is still<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/02/brian-terrys-mother-to-holder-youre-a-joke-and-a-coward/"> the Attorney General of the United States</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Late last night, FBI agents flew to Mexico City and took Lionel Portillo-Meza, aka &#8220;Jesus Leonel Sanchez-Meza&#8221;, into custody. Sanchez-Meza is wanted for the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and was part of the rip-crew that engaged BORTAC agents in a firefight on the night of December 14, 2010. Sanchez-Meza was arrested in Mexico on September 6, 2012 and his been waiting extradition from a prison there for nearly two years. He is currently in Tucson, Arizona for a court hearing Wednesday afternoon after being transferred through Houston.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2012/02/03/slain-border-patrol-agent-terrys-mom-calls-eric-holder-a-joke-and-a-coward-politician/">But the man running </a>the<a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/09/12/brian-terry%E2%80%99s-family-files-lawsuit-against-holder"> system got Sanchez-Meza his gun</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p> The family of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry has filed a $25 million wrongful death claim against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claiming Terry was killed with AK-47s that were knowingly sold under the Fast and Furious gunrunning probe to a straw purchaser for drug cartels.</p>
<p>In a 65-page complaint, served on the government on Wednesday, attorneys for the family claim ATF “wrongdoing” in Operation Fast and Furious.</p>
<p>“ATF’s failures were not only negligent but in violation of ATF’s own policies and procedures,” the complaint claims.</p>
<p>Last year, the House of Representatives found Holder in contempt of court after he withheld documents under subpoena.</p></blockquote>
<p>Thanks to Obama Inc. the only one armed by the government i<a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2012/07/outrage-eric-holder-disarmed-brian.html">n this encounter was the killer</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>For the first time, federal officials revealed Monday that murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and an elite squad of federal agents first fired bean bags — not bullets — at a heavily armed drug cartel crew in the mountains south of Tucson in December 2011.</p>
<p>The announcement came as the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging five individuals allegedly involved in Terry’s death. A sixth suspect has also been charged in a related incident.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/21/eric-holder-spits-on-brian-terrys-grave/">seventh suspect is the Attorney General of the United States</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>As president of the National Border Patrol Council, I represent more than 17,000 rank-and-file Border Patrol agents. I personally have been an agent for more than 25 years, during which time I have seen my fair share of politics related to the service. We have dealt with overzealous prosecutors and anti-immigration organizations, but never have we had to deal with an attorney general who has complete disregard for one of our own.</p>
<p>Eric H. Holder Jr. is called “America’s top cop” as the attorney general of the United States. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held hearings with Mr. Holder as a witness in order to properly investigate the disaster known as Operation Fast and Furious. Direct questions have been aimed at the attorney general to determine who is at fault and to hold those parties accountable for their involvement in the operation. To date, Mr. Holder has danced around the questions, releasing only a small fraction of the documents that have been requested by Congress. He has not answered all of the questions that the committee has asked him. We are one-and-a-half years into this investigation and are no closer to getting the answers than when we started. It is downright unacceptable. This is why the National Border Patrol Council is calling for the resignation of Mr. Holder. Credibility, honesty, integrity and honor are trademarks that every law enforcement officer brings to work every day. Yet, as America’s top cop, Mr. Holder has failed on every count.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to enforce the law when the top cop is a criminal.</p>
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		<title>Holder Demands DEA Chief Support Obama&#8217;s Pro-Drug Dealer Policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 14:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEA chief Michele Leonhart has taken public stands in recent months against the administration]]></description>
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<p>Obama is<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/eric-holder-moves-against-mandatory-minimum-drug-sentencing-231818"> going all in for drug dealers</a>. As a former cokehead who discussed considering trying heroin, it&#8217;s not surprising. But a lot of prosecutors and people in the DEA are unhappy with his pro-drug dealer agenda.</p>
<blockquote><p>Holder, citing Commission statistics, endorsed the plan, saying that the change would affect some 70 percent of those incarcerated for trafficking and, on average, cut their sentences by 11 months – some 18 percent of their prison terms.</p>
<p>Thursday’s testimony is not the first time that Holder has supported drug sentencing reform. In August, Holder launched the “Smart on Crime” initiative, which seeks to “reserve strict, mandatory minimum sentences for high-level or violent drug traffickers,” a statement on his website says.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/21/federal-prosecutors-balk-at-holder-push-to-reduce-drug-sentences/">Federal prosecutors are unhappy</a> with Obama and Holder&#8217;s pro-drug dealer policies.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a sharply worded letter to Holder, the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys wrote &#8220;we consider the current federal mandatory minimum sentence framework as well-constructed and well worth preserving.&#8221;</p>
<p>One federal prosecutor who spoke to Fox News on condition of anonymity said if the Smarter Sentencing Act passes, incarceration rates may go down, but drug crimes will go up because dealers won&#8217;t feel compelled to cooperate.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now that we have crime under control, this bill would see drug crime surge all over again,&#8221; the source said, calling the bill a &#8220;terrible idea.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>And the <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-holder-tells-dea-chief-get-line_792883.html">DEA Chief is also unhappy</a> with the Obama drug dealer friendly agenda.</p>
<blockquote><p>DEA chief Michele Leonhart has taken public stands in recent months against the administration&#8217;s rhetoric on marijuana legalization as well as efforts by the White House and the Justice Department to ease punshiments for those covicted of federal drug crimes.</p>
<p>HuffPo&#8217;s Ryan Reilly and Ryan Grim report that Leonhart was &#8220;called in&#8221; by Holder for a &#8220;one [on] one chat about her recent insubordination.&#8221; Leonhart seems to have gotten the message. Here more from their story:</p>
<p>Justice Department concerns about Leonhart were heightened when, after her testimony, a DEA spokeswoman would not say whether Leonhart endorsed changes mandatory minimums.</p>
<p>The DEA sent The Huffington Post a follow-up statement a week after the first, expressing Leonhart&#8217;s public support for reforms made by Holder that rolled back the deployment of harsh mandatory minimum sentences against certain drug offenders.</p></blockquote>
<p>The HuffPo piece being quoted is predictably a pro-Obama screed that never even uses the word drug dealer and misrepresents Obama and Holder&#8217;s pro-drug dealer policies. But the whole thing is only another brick in the wall of Obama&#8217;s lawlessness.</p>
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		<title>Judges Accuse Atty General Holder of Disrespecting the Judicial System</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 16:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chief Judge Ricardo Hinojosa said Holder is setting a “dangerous precedent.”]]></description>
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<p>But as Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse already pointed out, Attorney General Eric Holder doesn&#8217;t follow the law,<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/should-the-attorney-general-be-an-advocate-for-a-different-point-of-view/"> he advocates a certain point of view</a>.</p>
<p>His own.</p>
<p>Like Obama, Holder makes up his own laws as he goes along, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/375540/judge-holder-disrespected-judicial-branch-sentencing-change-christine-sisto">abusing power by acting like a tyrant</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The United States Sentencing Commission Thursday unanimously approved an amendment to revise sentencing guidelines for non-violent drug offenders, but not before one commissioner accused Attorney General Eric Holder of having “disrespected” the judicial branch’s role in sentencing reform.</p>
<p>“I regret that, before we voted on the amendment, the Attorney General instructed Assistant United States Attorneys across the Nation not to object to defense requests to apply the proposed amendment in sentencing proceedings going forward,” Judge William Pryor, Jr. said at a public hearing in Washington. “That unprecedented instruction disrespected our statutory role, ‘as an independent commission in the judicial branch,’ to establish sentencing policies and practices under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.”</p>
<p>In August, Holder revealed his “Smart on Crime” initiative, which includes recommendations for reduced sentencing, without consulting with the Sentencing Commission—an independent agency within the judicial branch tasked with setting such policies. Although the sentencing reforms themselves were not controversial, Holder’s cavalier approach to separation of powers, including a March memo in which he “instructed the Assistant United States Attorneys across the Nation not to object to defense requests to apply the proposed amendment in sentencing proceedings going forward,” irritated commissioners and alarmed supporters of constitutional separation of powers.</p>
<p>Chief Judge Ricardo Hinojosa concurred with Pryor that Holder is setting a “dangerous precedent.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But the left isn&#8217;t thinking in terms of precedents, except for itself, it is acting as if it will always be in power so it can trash all the safeguards against abuses of power.</p>
<blockquote><p>William G. Otis a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, said in a statement. “One way to consider this question is to ask whether, if the Attorney General ordered prosecutors to seek increased sentences that were, at the time, only preliminary, those applauding Mr. Holder’s actions would be as enthusiastic as they are today.”</p></blockquote>
<p>They wouldn&#8217;t obviously, but with the exception of a few men like Turley, the question doesn&#8217;t even occur to them. Their use of power is inherently good. Anyone else&#8217;s use of power is inherently bad.</p>
<p>They don&#8217;t care about the law. They care about winning.</p>
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		<title>Should the Attorney General be an &#8220;Advocate for a Different Point of View.”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2014 20:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That's not a defense. That's an indictment.]]></description>
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<p>There are few quotes that better sum up how lawless and ignorant the Democrats have become<a href="http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/i-guess-they-dont-like-anybody-who-disagrees-with-them/"> than this defense of Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s</a> misconduct by Senator Whitehouse.</p>
<blockquote><p>Senate Democrats are rallying to Attorney General Eric Holder’s defense.</p>
<p>They argue Republicans are wrong to suggest he is overly partisan, or that he is more uncooperative with Congress compared to past attorneys general.</p>
<p>“I guess they don’t like anybody who disagrees with them,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. “He’s a strong and smart advocate for a different point of view.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s the whole point.</p>
<p>Holder is supposed to follow the law, not advocate a point of view.</p>
<p>A Senator is supposed to advocate a point of view. Not an Attorney General. Diane Feinstein is sensible enough to defend Holder against charges of partisanship. Whitehouse instead endorses them.</p>
<p>Whitehouse&#8217;s defense of Holder is not that he follows the law, but that he&#8217;s an effective left-winger. That&#8217;s not a defense.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s an indictment.</p>
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		<title>Cartel Gun Smuggler/Attorney General Wants Mandatory Gun Tracking Bracelets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 19:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["We can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights,"]]></description>
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<p>This is a great plan. <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/holder-we-want-to-explore-gun-tracking-bracelets/">Surely when a burglar steals a gun</a>, there&#8217;s no chance that he&#8217;ll also make off with the bracelet. And if a homeowner needs to protect himself, he had better know where his gun bracelet is.</p>
<p>If only someone had a gun bracelet for all those Fast and Furious guns that Holder moved down past the Rio Grande to the drug cartels.</p>
<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday that gun tracking bracelets are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to “explore” as part of its gun control efforts.</p>
<p>When discussing gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee that his agency is looking into technological innovations.</p>
<p>“I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Memo to Holder. Repeating &#8220;Common sense&#8221; after every stupid and illegal law you want to pass stopped working last year. Get a new talking point.</p>
<p>Any chance those technology people are the same ones selling the gun safety technology.</p>
<blockquote><p>“By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon.”</p>
<p>“It’s those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis,” Holder said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Like assault rifles being smuggled to Mexico? I bet Holder sees that on a daily basis even as he signs off on it.</p>
<p>But this gimmick is supposed to address the problem of stolen guns being passed along. Also it would make private sales impossible, which is the real endgame here. Guns would be locked to a single owner. Transfer would require some sort of government intervention. Or someone who can bypass the lock, which is what would happen in the real world.</p>
<p>Gun safes that respond to RFID and/or fingerprint scanners already exist and they&#8217;re a sensible solution. There have also been proposals for GPS tracking of all firearms. Predictably that proposal came out of Chicago.</p>
<p>But Holder likely means something like the Armatix iP1,<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-need-the-iphone-of-guns-will-smart-guns-transform-the-gun-industry/2014/02/17/6ebe76da-8f58-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html"> the supposed &#8216;smart gun&#8217;</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Electronic chips inside the gun and the watch communicate with each other. If the watch is within close reach of the gun, a light on the grip turns green. Fire away. No watch means no green light. The gun becomes a paperweight.</p>
<p>A dream of gun-control advocates for decades, the Armatix iP1 is the country’s first smart gun.</p>
<p>Lawmakers around the country have been intrigued by the possibilities. New Jersey passed a hotly contested law in 2002 requiring that only smart guns be sold in the state within three years of a smart gun being sold anywhere in the country. A similar measure made it through the California Senate last year, and at the federal level, Rep. John F. Tierney (D-Mass.) also has introduced a mandate.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Armatix however costs $1,399. It also hasn&#8217;t seen that much testing.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a Fast and Furious link to the whole mess because the operation did attempt to use GPS tracking devices, occasionally, with mixed results.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Justice Department has requested $382.1 million in increased spending for its fiscal year 2014 budget for “gun safety.”</p>
<p>Included in the proposal is $2 million for “Gun Safety Technology” grants, which would award prizes for technologies that are “proven to be reliable and effective.”</p>
<p>President Barack Obama’s budget proposal also calls for $1.1 billion to “protect Americans from gun violence—including $182 million to support the president’s ‘Now is the Time’ gun safety initiative.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Or Holder could self-finance by selling more guns to drug dealers.</p>
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		<title>Holders Bans Profiling Islamic Terrorists by Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 16:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam is terrorism's motive]]></description>
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<p>A lot of profiling restrictions are stupid, but in this case religion is the motivation. <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/unreal-holder-bans-fbi-agents-from-considering-religion-in-counterterrorism-investigations-so-muslims-arent-offended/">Banning profiling of perpetrators by their motives </a>is a sure way of crippling investigations.</p>
<p>This is what I predicted was going to happen and I&#8217;m surprised it took this long. If terrorists can&#8217;t be profiled by religion, then preventing attacks becomes incredibly difficult.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Justice Department will significantly expand its definition of racial profiling to prohibit federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations, a government official said Wednesday.</p>
<p>The Bush administration banned profiling in 2003, but with two caveats: It did not apply to national security cases, and it covered only race, not religion, ancestry or other factors.</p>
<p>Since taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has been under pressure from Democrats in Congress to eliminate those provisions.</p>
<p>It is not clear whether Mr. Holder also intends to make the rules apply to national security investigations, which would further respond to complaints from Muslim groups.</p>
<p>“Adding religion and national origin is huge,” said Linda Sarsour, advocacy director for the National Network for Arab American Communities. “But if they don’t close the national security loophole, then it’s really irrelevant.”</p>
<p>The Justice Department has been reviewing the rules for several years and has not publicly signaled how it might change them. Mr. Holder disclosed his plans in a meeting on Wednesday with Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, according to an official briefed on the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the conversation was private.</p></blockquote>
<p>Bloomberg, as bad as he was, might have objected, but Bill de Blasio is on the same page as Holder when it comes to empowering terrorists.</p>
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		<title>Obama Vows to Crack Down on Gun Trafficking to Mexican Cartels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Obama and Holder are promising<a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/08/obama-holder-meet-with-mayors-on-youth-violence-171319.html?hp=r7"> unilateral executive action on gun trafficking. </a>And this time the unilateral executive action won&#8217;t be to traffic guns to Mexican drug cartels.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-vows-to-push-gun-control-through-executive-action">That&#8217;s probably a smart move</a> considering that between the two of them, Holder and Obama probably know more about trafficking guns than anyone else. Sure this plan may seem a little like putting the crook in charge of the bank he robbed, again, but maybe the crook can reform. Or more likely not.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a meeting with 18 mayors from across the country Tuesday, President Obama promised to push gun control through executive action while pressing Congress to pass anti-gun bills he can support.</p>
<p>According to a White House readout, mayors met with Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss strategies designed to reduce youth violence.</p>
<p>&#8220;The President applauded the mayors for their local efforts to combat violence, solicited their input about proven methods, and pledged his Administration’s partnership. He also vowed to continue doing everything in his power to combat gun violence through executive action and to press Congress to pass common-sense reforms like expanding the background check system and cracking down on gun trafficking,&#8221; the White House added.</p></blockquote>
<p>More common sense reforms aimed at ordinary people who, unlike Obama and Holder, mostly aren&#8217;t trafficking guns to drug dealers. We can never seem to get enough of those. But can we get some common sense reforms to prevent Attorney Generals from trafficking guns to Mexican drug cartels?</p>
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		<title>See No Radical Islam, Hear No Radical Islam</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Holder continues the administration’s game of blurry definitions.]]></description>
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<p>On May 13, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/14/eric-holder-refuses-to-say-radical-islam-motivated-times-square-bomber-video/">confronted</a> Attorney General Eric Holder about whether radical Islam was the motivating factor in the terrorist plots against the United   States over the past year. Rather than acknowledge the religious-ideological threat posed to us, Holder continued the Obama Administration’s pattern of trying to avoid using terms like “radical Islam” and “Islamic terrorism.”</p>
<p>Rep. Smith repeatedly prodded at Holder, who tried to fend off the attack by saying, “There are a variety of reasons why people do things. Some of them are potentially religious.”</p>
<p>Unsatisfied with the lack of clarity, Rep. Smith continued to ask him, “Are you uncomfortable attributing any other actions to radical Islam?” Holder replied by saying, “No, I don’t want to say anything negative about a religion…”</p>
<p>Finally, Holder conceded, saying “I certainly think that it’s possible that people who espouse a radical version of Islam have had an ability to make an impact on people like Mr. Shahzad,” referring to the American who tried to detonate a car bomb in Times Square as part of a plot by the Pakistani Taliban.</p>
<p>The Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, made her language more realistic in February when she flatly <a href="http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/02/24/ft-hood-attack-publicly-called-terrorism/">stated</a> to the Senate, “Violent Islamic terrorism…was part and parcel of the Ft.  Hood killings.” She obviously went the extra mile after she was criticized for saying her agency was preparing for “man-made disasters” instead of “terrorism,” <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,613330,00.html">telling</a> a German newspaper that she was trying to “move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur.”</p>
<p>The Obama Administration as a whole, however, is trying to avoid using such terms as much as possible. Neither the Quadrennial Defense Review nor the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review even mention “Muslim” or “Islam,” <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-46311120100219?pageNumber=1&amp;virtualBrandChannel=0">instead</a> focusing on “non-state actors” and “Al Qaeda and global violent extremism.” The National Security Strategy document likewise will no longer mention “Islamic extremism,” <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/04/07/obama-bans-islam-jihad-national-security-strategy-document/">removing</a> the portion that says that “The struggle against militant Islamic radicalism is the great ideological conflict of the early years of the 21st century.”</p>
<p>This removes the religious-ideological component from the assessment. Al-Qaeda is pinpointed as the main enemy, but the driving force behind the terrorist group is not. Instead, Al-Qaeda is one among many violent extremists, rather than a symptom of a specific disease. Furthermore, it narrows the war down to Al-Qaeda, apparently drawing a distinction between them and groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Taliban, the latter of which was once <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSISL492661">said</a> by the Administration to contain “moderate” elements that could be included in a political process.</p>
<p>On April 6, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair spoke about intelligence reform. He did not mention “the War on Terror” once, instead referring to “countering violent extremism.” The State Department’s top terrorism official, Daniel Benjamin <a href="http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/rm/2010/138175.htm">used</a> the same term but did a better job in defining the threat by referring to “counter-ideology initiatives.” However, he talked about “delegitimiz[ing] the Al Qaeda narrative and, where possible, provide positive alternatives.” This again pinpoints Al-Qaeda as the enemy when the problem encompasses many more jihadists, many of whom disagree with Al-Qaeda’s narrative on some levels but still promote Sharia Law.</p>
<p>President Obama has dropped the term “War on Terror” from the vocabulary, believing it has negative connotations in the Islamic world, and uses the term “justice” instead of “democracy” for the same reason when promoting reform overseas. Phrases like “overseas contingency operation,” “a campaign against extremists who wish to do us harm,” and “countering violent extremism” are used to today to vaguely define the conflict.</p>
<p>The thinking behind these changes is that U.S. foreign policy is what creates terrorists and jihadists. The violence these groups take part in occurs out of frustration over political disagreements, and if the U.S. can successfully convince the Islamic world that the West is not waging war on their religion, such groups will be defeated.</p>
<p>A few statements by President Obama provide a window into what he feels creates terrorists. On January 5, President Obama <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8442543.stm">said</a> that Guantanamo Bay was “an explicit rationale for the formation of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” a statement that is <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2010/01/obama_wrong_on_al_qaeda_in_the.asp">incorrect</a> on its own terms and is incorrect in its inference that U.S. policy is the decisive factor in a decision to carry out terrorism on innocent civilians.</p>
<p>During the presidential campaign in May 2008, President Obama <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/opinion/16brooks.html">told</a> <em>The New York Times</em> that “There are rarely purely ideological movements out there. We can encourage actors to think in practical and not ideological terms. We can strengthen those elements that are making practical calculations.”</p>
<p>He went on to say that Hamas and Hezbollah need to be convinced that their violence is hurting their “legitimate claims,” but did say that Hezbollah was “not a legitimate political party” and recognized the influence Iran and Syria has over them. He did not explain what “legitimate claims” Hamas and Hezbollah have, but the quote shows that he attributes their existence to political causes.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration has been using John Brennan, the special assistant to the President for counterterrorism, to discuss its efforts to fight terrorism. In some cases, his words sound positive. He <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-John-Brennan-at-the-Center-for-Strategic-and-International-Studies/">said</a> that the term “War on Terrorism” was dropped because “by focusing on the tactic, we risk floundering among the terrorist trees while missing the growth of the extremist forest.” This sounded like a recognition that some radical jihadists use other methods to reach their objectives. However, in that same speech, he placed emphasis on Al-Qaeda, saying the Administration will fight them “aggressively wherever it exists” but will not define the campaign as a “global war” because it “only plays into the warped narrative that Al-Qaeda propagates.”</p>
<p>In defending the language of the Administration, he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/magazine/17Terror-t.html?pagewanted=all">said</a> “what we have to do is make sure that we’re not pouring fuel on the flames by the things we do.” Even the media coverage of his statements showed the change in perception from the previous administration. <em>The New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/magazine/17Terror-t.html?pagewanted=all">described</a> Brennan as “helping Obama redirect the war against Al-Qaeda.” In other words, the war is specifically against Al-Qaeda and their collaborators, and their strength comes from a negative perception of U.S. foreign policy.</p>
<p>It is true that the war for the hearts and minds is critical, but it must be understood that radical Islamic terrorists view all the political conflicts through religious-ideological lenses. They are pursuing the establishment of their version of Sharia Law, as evidenced by their brutal attacks and oppression upon other Muslims. There is no “Al-Qaeda narrative,” as if they are the author of the ideology they espouse. Al-Qaeda and the other jihadists subscribe to an overall narrative provided by radical Islam and have some deviations based on interpretation.</p>
<p>The words of the very forces we face debunk the Administration’s analysis of what is the root cause of terrorism. The Muslim Brotherhood’s own documents have described its covert campaign in the United   States as “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within.” The head of the Hezbollah in Iran has <a href="http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=175619">called</a> for a “Greater Iran” that extends from Palestine to Afghanistan. Osama Bin Laden says that “The matter is summer up for every person alive: either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die.”</p>
<p>These are not the words of people simply opposed to U.S. policy. These are the words of Islamic extremists on an ideological crusade to dominate the West.</p>
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		<title>Luck Is Not A Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 04:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America’s safety depends on the proposition that Islamic terrorists will prove more incompetent than the Obama administration.]]></description>
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<p>There’s no better way to summarize president Obama’s approach to fighting the war against jihad than this: For the next three years, we’re betting our safety on the proposition that Islamic thugs and terrorists will prove to be more incompetent than the Obama administration. In the aftermath of the Times  Square bombing attempt, is there another way to consider it? How many “isolated incidents” have to pile up before the president wakes up to the fact that there’s a pattern, one that just might have something to do with a particular fundamentalist religious outlook, and that the politically correct bunker mentality is not going to cut it?</p>
<p>Reluctantly, Attorney General Eric Holder has conceded that it might be a good idea to adjust, not totally eliminate mind you, the law with regards to reading <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/09/holder-calls-review-miranda-rights-law-suggests-possible-changes/">a terror suspect their Miranda rights</a>, provided that it can be done within constitutional bounds, of course. Holder’s tepid foray into the waters of treating enemy combatants like enemies was prompted by the increasing volume of criticism showered on the administration for advising Christmas bomber <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1239543/The-fanatic-invited-jihad-cleric-address-British-students.html">Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab</a> and Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad that they have the right to remain silent. Holder assures us that both Abdulmutallab and Shahzad talked anyway, and perhaps they have, but are we really supposed to believe that investigators got as much out of them as they would have had not these enemy combatants been treated to the courtesies of our legal system?</p>
<p>The idea that we should extend constitutional protections to enemy combatants, particularly when that enemy is not in uniform, is a concept that would have perplexed any other American president in history, with the possible exception of James Earl Carter. The famous example of FDR <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq114-1.htm">summarily executing six Nazi spies</a> found on American soil during World War II is but one case that illustrates the way our commanders-in-chief have always dealt with spies and saboteurs – until now.</p>
<p>But then few past presidents would approve of the “cower behind the walls” strategy of fighting this war that Obama has adopted. In the aftermath of Times  Square, with three enemy infiltrations onto American soil in the space of six months, Senate Homeland Security chair <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/09/lieberman-the-system-failed-with-times-square-bomber/">Joe Liebermann observed</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“We were lucky. We did not prevent the attempted attack. It’s hard to stop them every time, but that has to be our goal. … So I’d say in terms of prevention, the system failed.”</p></blockquote>
<p>We <em>were</em> lucky. We will have to continue to be lucky, because when you choose to go on the defensive, luck is the only thing that keeps a shell from landing in the wrong place at the wrong time and these particular shells have two legs and access to a bag of tricks. The history of warfare shows that in the battle between artillery and fortifications, artillery always wins, eventually. You build a castle and somebody is going to invent a trebuchet big enough to batter down your walls. Build a fort and somebody’s going to come along with a bigger cannon. The Obama administration is counting on the massive security apparatus of the United States to create the modern-day equivalent of the Maginot line around the borders of America, manned by an army of bureaucrats.</p>
<p>It’s not going to work. It’s never worked. Philosophically, Bush made it clear that he would target the enemy where he lies, for as long as it took to win. On the other hand, Obama makes it increasingly obvious that he longs to disengage from the enemy, thus providing them a host of targets over here, for as long as “isolated incidents” continue to occur.</p>
<p>In a tough, cynical world, ruthless leaders can smell weakness and this president reeks of it. During the 2008 campaign, when conservatives were critical of Obama’s offer to sit down with our enemies, a re-occurring example of the kind of hopeful change we could expect in a post-American world, liberals roundly accused them of war-mongering. In fact, there’s no mongering involved, there’s just war, right on our doorstep.</p>
<p>There’s no better example of the scorn with which angry, murderous jihadists view this president than the words of the man whom Obama really wanted to sit down with and have a chat and whom has thus become the sterling symbol of Obama’s global naiveté. Speaking to thousands of his countrymen with respect to Obama’s feeble attempts to curb Iran’s nuclear program, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/04/07/2010-04-07_iranian_president_mahmoud_ahmadinejad_mocks_obamas_cowboy_nuclear_plan.html">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Mr. Obama, you are a newcomer to politics. Wait until your sweat dries and get some experience…. American officials bigger than you, more bullying than you, couldn’t do a damn thing, let alone you.”</p></blockquote>
<p>George W. Bush may have been the devil to Ahmadinejad and his ilk, but one would be foolish indeed not to fear the devil. To the Iranian president and his partners in waging jihad, Obama is no more than an ineffectual, unimportant, low-grade, mildly demonic imp, far down on the west’s satanic organizational chart. For them, Obama is annoying at times, sure – but not really anything to worry about.</p>
<p>If nothing changes about the way this administration fights the jihadists, consider the following scenario. In 2012 America elects a new, tough-on-terror president, in part because everyone recognizes how ineffective Obama has been as commander in chief. Ahmadinejad, seeing the writing on the wall – that his nuclear ambitions will go up in smoke courtesy of the Israeli Defense Force once the new, pro-Israel guy is sworn in and having put together a couple of nuclear tipped missiles under the UN’s noses – decides that it’s use it or lose it time.</p>
<p>Far-fetched? Sure, especially when you know that Israel has the capability to retaliate in force. But impossible? Mixing religious fanatics with weak, appeasing leadership in the west makes for a very dangerous stew. Based on his performance as a war-time leader so far, it’s going to take a significant tragedy before this president decides to fight.</p>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is David Kupelian, award-winning journalist and managing editor of online news giant <a href="http://www.wnd.com/">WorldNetDaily.com</a> as well as its popular monthly newsmagazine, <em>Whistleblower</em>. A widely read online columnist, he is also the author of the bestselling culture-war classic, <em>The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom</em>, now in its eleventh printing. His new book, released in February by Simon &amp; Schuster, is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Evil-Works-Understanding-Transforming/dp/1439168199"><em>How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America.</em></a></p>
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>David Kupelian, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Let’s start by talking about the Stockholm syndrome that, as you discuss in your book, is affecting the West right now in its confrontation with Islamic Jihad. Give us your perspective.<strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>Jamie, thanks very much for giving me the opportunity to talk about &#8220;How Evil Works.&#8221; In Chapter 3, &#8220;How Terrorism Really Works,&#8221; I use the Stockholm syndrome to explain the inexplicable level of weakness and appeasement we continually see in the West toward Islam – for instance, in our disastrous failure to stop Nidal Malik Hasan before he shot dozens of people at Fort Hood, killing 13, even though we knew full well he was a jihadist time bomb waiting to explode.</p>
<p>Everyone&#8217;s heard of the Stockholm syndrome, named after the Swedish bank robbery when two escaped convicts terrorized four hostages in a bank vault for five and a half days, during which time the hostages grew increasingly sympathetic toward their captors and antagonistic toward the police who were risking their lives to rescue them. The hostages, who had been tied to chairs, had nooses around their necks and guns trained on them day after day, ended up siding with their captors wholeheartedly, later raising money for their defense and refusing to testify against them at trial.</p>
<p>The syndrome, which law enforcement psychologists recognized long before it had a name, is pretty simple: When we&#8217;re seriously intimidated, in a life-threatening way, some of us start to side with whomever or whatever is intimidating us. I don&#8217;t mean just cooperating and &#8220;agreeing&#8221; with a captor as a survival strategy, which makes perfect sense. Extreme intimidation has a way of sometimes flipping our sympathy and loyalty in favor of the people doing the intimidating. In the news business, we see this in high-profile cases like Patricia Hearst, Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard.</p>
<p>Radical Islam is extremely intimidating – by design. The more crazy it acts, the more powerful it becomes. Just a few weeks ago, in Nigeria, Muslim gangs slaughtered 500 Christians, including many children and pregnant women and old people – hacked them to death with machetes. Islam has spread in this way – &#8220;at the point of a sword&#8221; – for centuries. As I write in &#8220;How Evil Works,&#8221; I personally lost many family members, perhaps over 100, in the genocide of the Christian Armenians at the hands of Muslim Turks. I tell one story in which my great grandfather, a Protestant minister, was martyred, along with 60 or 70 other clergymen and their wives, in Adana, Turkey, because they refused to convert on the spot to Islam. This is how it spreads, by traumatizing people. Many, just to survive, join the religion.</p>
<p>So the murderous Islamic tantrums we keep hearing about have a certain dark logic to them, in terms of enabling the spread of Islam. Remember the Danish Muhammad cartoons, which resulted in over 50 deaths? Or when Newsweek reported (incorrectly) that someone at Gitmo flushed a Quran down the toilet, which led to at least 15 deaths? Or the Miss World contest in Nigeria, when a single comment by a newspaper columnist about the beauty of contestants led to insane Muslim rioting in which rioters massacred over 200 people with machetes, or beat them to death or burned them alive – all because of a single sentence a newspaper columnist wrote, which wasn&#8217;t even offensive?</p>
<p>How do we respond to these outrageously demented and murderous tantrums? We refer to terrorist acts as &#8220;man-caused disasters.&#8221; We proclaim Islam as a &#8220;religion of peace.&#8221; Burger King recalls thousands of its ice cream cones because someone thought the ice cream swirl logo looked too much like the way the word &#8220;Allah&#8221; is written in Arabic and was therefore sacrilegious. &#8220;The 3 Little Pigs&#8221; is repeatedly censored in Britain so as not to offend Muslims, who don&#8217;t like pigs. In the U.S. we have a middle school curriculum that requires our children to dress up in Islamic garb, take on a Muslim name, memorize verses of the Quran and play so-called &#8220;jihad games.&#8221; Imagine trying that in today&#8217;s public schools with the Christian religion!</p>
<p>America, Europe and Britain today, in the way they deal with radical Islam and the terror threat, reveal something very akin to a low-grade, widespread Stockholm syndrome.</p>
<p>Bottom line, we don&#8217;t want to offend Muslims. Why? Because we&#8217;re afraid of them<strong>.</strong> We&#8217;re not afraid of Christians or Jews, because Christians and Jews don&#8217;t have tantrums and burn down other religions&#8217; houses of worship and cut of people&#8217;s heads and commit terrorist acts. Radical Muslims do. We&#8217;re so afraid that, even after the Fort Hood attack, the Pentagon, in its 86-page postmortem report analyzing the event, did not see fit to mention the word &#8220;Muslim,&#8221; &#8220;Islam&#8221; or &#8220;jihad.&#8221; This is reminiscent of the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; stories, where everyone is so spooked by the villain Voldemort that they are afraid even to utter his name.</p>
<p>Ironically, people in the grip of jihadist fervor have nothing but contempt for our weakness and appeasement, which actually encourages more violence. Their madness is neutralized only by strength. Ronald Reagan knew this, which is why his watchword was &#8220;Peace through strength.&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>David, you mention how just recently, in Nigeria, Muslim gangs slaughtered 500 Christians, including many children and pregnant women and old people. Everyone has heard about the “Christian militia” that was just arrested in Michigan (casualties, which seem to be at the number of zero, are still to be numbered or named). How come the slaughter in Nigeria, which took 500 lives, is not in the news and no one has heard about it?</p>
<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>The Obama propaganda ministry – aka the &#8220;mainstream press&#8221; – is always looking to reinforce the largely phony narrative that &#8220;homegrown terrorism&#8221; on the right is a major danger to American civilization. Hence the saturation coverage of the &#8220;Christian militia&#8221; group. The &#8220;rightwing terrorism&#8221; narrative is necessary for justifying the left&#8217;s attacks on normal, hard-working, tea-partying Americans – evident in the growing allegations that speaking  honestly about the leftist coup in Washington is &#8220;hate speech,&#8221; that those opposing Obama are racists, and that tea partiers are one step away from violence.</p>
<p>On the other hand, dwelling on Muslims&#8217; blood-lust and widespread massacring of Christians in foreign lands supports the &#8220;wrong&#8221; narrative (from the media&#8217;s point of view) – namely, that Islam is not a religion of peace after all, hasn&#8217;t been one for the last 14 centuries and shows no signs of starting. Thus, the murders of 500 innocent people are reported perfunctorily, if at all, and then dropped. The mainstream media are just not interested.</p>
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>You say that, “Bottom line, we don&#8217;t want to offend Muslims. Why? Because we&#8217;re afraid of them.” Absolutely, we have a pathetic talk show host on the CBC up here in Canada, <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=31776">George Stroumboulopoulos</a>, who makes constant jokes about Jesus, yet you will never hear him make one joke about the “Prophet” Mohammed.</p>
<p>Fear, as you state, is definitely a factor. But let’s move a bit further and deeper. I’ve made a life-time study of these people and we know that in the world of the Left, it is unimaginable to criticize an adversary culture or religion, and that it is very chic to slander anything connected to the Judeo-Christian tradition. To poke fun at Islam would threaten these peoples’ whole identity, world vision and social life. Can you comment on this a bit?</p>
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<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>For one thing, the Left&#8217;s very identity and sense of righteousness are tied up in hating America for all its supposed wrongs, arrogance, injustices, exploitations and wars of oppression. And since, as we all know, &#8220;the enemy of your enemy is your friend,&#8221; cultures that hate and revile America are therefore respected and even admired by the Left, which also hates America. This is one reason Attorney General Eric Holder has pushed to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civilian court; he secretly – maybe  unconsciously – has a certain amount of sympathy for the 9/11 mastermind. The logic of this is straightforward and incontrovertible: KSM hates and blames America, and because leftists like Holder also hate and blame America, leftists &#8220;understand&#8221; and even sympathize on some level with terrorists, no matter how despicable their crimes. <strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Tell us a bit about how people who want to manipulate us often use crises to do so. Explain how this is connected to what Obama and his administration are up to.<strong> </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>As all skilled manipulators know, the easiest and surest way to exert control over people is to get them to react emotionally to you. One way to get people to do what they wouldn&#8217;t ordinarily do is to create a phony crisis for them to overreact to.</p>
<p>For instance, in &#8220;How Evil Works&#8221; I cite a child-abduction case in which a little girl was approached after school by a man she didn&#8217;t know. He claimed her house was burning down, that her parents were busy putting out the fire, and that he was a friend of the parents who had asked him to pick up their daughter and take her to them. The crisis – and the emotional upset the girl experienced over the thought of her house being on fire and her parents in danger – drowned out her normal caution about getting into a car with a stranger. Result: The stranger, a predator who had concocted the lie for the sole purpose of upsetting and tricking the girl into going with him, murdered the little girl. This same routine was portrayed in the film &#8220;Changeling&#8221; starring Angelina Jolie, a true story that involved a serial child murderer who enticed youngsters into his car using this exact &#8220;your-house-is-on-fire&#8221; ruse.</p>
<p>As I explain in Chapter 1, &#8220;Why We Elect Liars as Leaders,&#8221; manufactured crisis is the primary modus operandi of the Obama administration. After all, how else could a far-left administration lead a center-right country in such a terrible direction without big-time deception and subterfuge – which is accomplished handily by constantly creating bogeyman crises? For instance:</p>
<p>* We heard for 14 months that our healthcare system is desperately broken. In reality, it&#8217;s the finest healthcare system in world history. If you&#8217;re an illegal alien child molester and you get sick or injured and go to a public hospital, you will, by law, be taken care of whether or not you can pay. That&#8217;s not a broken system. And as for the relatively small number of Americans who truly can&#8217;t afford health insurance, our government has always been good at creating safety nets. But that was not the intent of Obamacare, which conspicuously bypassed all sensible, market-based reforms – like litigation reform and allowing intrastate purchase of insurance – that would lower costs without degrading quality of care.</p>
<p>* Until wave after wave of scandalous fraud revelations proved the global warming &#8220;consensus&#8221; was a giant hoax, America was poised to pass &#8220;cap-and-trade&#8221; legislation which would institute massive and ruinous levels of wealth redistribution – which was the object all along. The administration is now regrouping and re-strategizing how best to force this abomination down Americans&#8217; throats, as they did with Obamacare.</p>
<p>* We&#8217;ve been told throughout the age of Obama that America will plunge into hopeless depression if government doesn&#8217;t spend trillions and take over entire sectors of the economy. In reality, massive government and Federal Reserve intervention has always worsened and prolonged economic downturns, not solved them.</p>
<p>* Here&#8217;s one most people don&#8217;t know about: Last May, just a few days before the World Health Organization classified swine flu as a phase 6 pandemic – the highest, scariest category – the WHO quietly redefined pandemic to eliminate the phrase &#8220;enormous numbers of deaths and illness&#8221; and substituted wording that said pandemics &#8220;can be either mild or severe in the illness and death they cause.&#8221; You see, the WHO grows in power and lots of money starts to flow when a phase 6 pandemic is declared. The White House, never one to let a good crisis go to waste, issued a press release saying up to 90,000 Americans would likely die from swine flu. The next day, the head of the CDC, Dr. Thomas Frieden, told Americans to ignore the White House&#8217;s wild fear-mongering, saying &#8220;Everything we&#8217;ve seen in the U.S. and everything we&#8217;ve seen around the world suggests we won&#8217;t see that kind of number if the virus doesn&#8217;t change.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fundamentally, the whole leftist obsession with power – which promotes ever-increasing dependency of people on government – is, in and of itself, a huge crisis machine. Normal competent adults are able to take care of themselves and their families through their own efforts and through voluntary cooperation with other free individuals. That&#8217;s America. If you&#8217;re an adult who can&#8217;t take care of your own life, that&#8217;s a crisis – and this is the state leftists want us to be in, to be dependent on them since that&#8217;s the basis for their growth in power. So socialism not only requires crisis to become established, its very existence is a state of perpetual crisis for free people.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> You refer to the “whole leftist obsession with power” in passing. Not everyone might know what you mean. In my own research and study, I know this reality in terms of how the Left lives vicariously through supporting communist dictators like Fidel Castro through what is called “negative affirmation.” But that is another matter (a bit). I know our themes are connected, so can you expand a bit on what you mean?</p>
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<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>Whole people – that is, people who are internally connected to conscience, to common sense, to God, however you want to put it, and who therefore possess a certain natural reverence for other souls and their autonomy – are not attracted to obtaining power over other people.</p>
<p>But people who have become twisted in certain ways – maybe they had a crummy childhood, or were brainwashed in college into embracing some toxic ideology, or simply are really resentful or envious or insecure – sometimes develop a compulsion to control others.</p>
<p>Imagine that you just met someone for the first time, and discovered that this person considered himself or herself far superior to others, above the need to be truthful, above the law, willing to break the law, and was arrogant and defiant at every turn. And that furthermore, this person harbored an overwhelming urge to control you, take what&#8217;s yours, and exercise power over you. You might understandably conclude this person is not only dangerous, but likely a criminal and/or mentally ill. That&#8217;s who we have running the country right now – the inmates are truly running the asylum.</p>
<p>These are very sick people we&#8217;re talking about: They thrive on crippling others, because the more dysfunctional people there are in the general population, the greater their power. More competent, mature, self-sufficient grownups translate into less power for them, which is why they disdain and malign the tea partiers and other normal, hard-working, tax-paying, independent Americans.</p>
<p>For the very egotistical, deluded person, power is like alcoholism. People like Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are drunk – on power. They don&#8217;t think, feel, reason or act in a normal way; they&#8217;re in an altered state of consciousness. As we say, &#8220;power corrupts,&#8221; and the more power we give them, the more absolute that corruption becomes.</p>
<p>Also, we need to remember that leftist politicians by definition believe the purpose of government is to ensure, by force, that wealth is evenly distributed. Thus, they look at us like we&#8217;re farm animals and they&#8217;re the farmers. When some of us have &#8220;too much food&#8221; and others &#8220;don&#8217;t have enough,&#8221; they come in and take it from us, and scold us for &#8220;hording&#8221; all that food we don&#8217;t need, and give it to the poor, righteous animals with not enough food. The problem is, we&#8217;re not animals and we don&#8217;t belong to them.</p>
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<p><strong>FP: </strong>How come the West has such a difficult time understanding the conflict we are in? This has much to do with, as is the subject of your work, the difficulty we have in understanding evil. Illuminate this phenomenon for us.<strong> </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>In the past 60 years, America as a whole has been conned into abandoning the core Judeo-Christian values that have provided the moral foundation of Western civilization for millennia, and of American civilization for centuries. The fundamental principles of life that previously gave our existence meaning and kept our society unified, safe and strong – belief in God, belief that the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount were the basis for a good life and a great society, recognition of the sanctity of life (which means you don&#8217;t kill babies before they&#8217;re born or old people when their care gets too expensive), belief that sex is sacred and reserved for marriage, and so on – have been discarded like yesterday&#8217;s newspaper.</p>
<p>If we don&#8217;t understand that we are created by God and that we live in a moral dimension in which we constantly can choose between good or evil, and that things go really badly when we choose the wrong way – if we don&#8217;t recognize this basic reality level of our lives, then it&#8217;s very difficult to understand evil, or to understand ourselves for that matter.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> You refer to the Sermon on the Mount as being the basis for a good life. I always found that one of the most moving parts of the New Testament, but I always saw it mostly as a promise for the next life (i.e. your reward will be great in heaven). Can you expand a bit on what you mean in terms of it being a basis for a good life on earth?</p>
<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>The beatitudes (&#8220;Blessed are the …&#8221;) describe the kind of attitude toward life that leads to genuine happiness or &#8220;blessedness&#8221; – including the admonition to &#8220;let your light shine before men&#8221; (which includes speaking the truth even if it&#8217;s unpopular) but also to forgive people who attack you for speaking the truth (&#8220;Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely&#8221;). That&#8217;s very reassuring and strengthening.</p>
<p>A lot of what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount is practical, for the here and now: He talks about hate and lust and divorce, and how we need to rise above these things. Some of the most transcendent truths that have infused traditional Judeo-Christian culture derive from the Sermon on the Mount, including The Lord&#8217;s Prayer; the admonition to &#8220;Seek first the kingdom of God&#8221; (and all else will be added); the warning to &#8220;Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep&#8217;s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves&#8221;; the truth that &#8220;a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,&#8221; and so on. Wisdom for living.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Your book deals with the war that is being waged on men and on masculinity in our society. Why is this happening and what are its consequences?</p>
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<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>In<strong> </strong>schools today, boys are doing worse than girls by every measure. The vast majority of children with discipline problems, learning disabilities, behavioral disorders, who are put on Ritalin or who drop out of school – 70 to 80 percent – are boys. Three out of five college students today are young women.</p>
<p>As boys grow up and get married, two thirds of divorces are initiated by the wives – and it is the wives that almost always get the children during custody proceedings, since the entire family court system is notoriously biased against men.</p>
<p>In popular culture, virtually every<strong> </strong>TV<strong> </strong>commercial portrays men as idiotic and women as smarter and hipper. Same with sitcoms, and with animated comedies like &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; and &#8220;Family Guy.&#8221; The dad is always the doofus. What happened to &#8220;Father Knows Best&#8221;?</p>
<p>In Chapter 8 of &#8220;How Evil Works,&#8221; titled &#8220;The War on Fathers,&#8221; I document how, as an outgrowth of the radical feminist movement of the sixties, today men, boys and masculinity itself are under attack. Our leftist academia harbors a major movement that is so offended by masculinity that it holds workshops on how to &#8220;transform&#8221; boys, eliminating their aggressiveness, competitiveness and maleness!</p>
<p>Remember the radical feminists of the sixties, with their angry denunciations of marriage as &#8220;legalized rape&#8221; and &#8220;slavery for women&#8221;? Just as the sixties political radicals are today running the American government, culturally the sixties&#8217; radical feminist hatred of Christianity and the traditional patriarchy that goes with it has infected today&#8217;s culture. It manifests as a compulsion to ridicule, diminish and have contempt for men. You can see it everywhere.</p>
<p>There is, of course, also a &#8220;practical&#8221; governmental motivation for breaking up marriages: Tyranny always works better when families are in crisis. Intact, functional families constitute their own universe, one with powerful internal loyalties and transcendent values that compete and sometimes clash with those of despotic government, which therefore strives to separate fathers from their families. In 1918, right after the Russian revolution, Vladimir Lenin passed a radical no-fault divorce law. Realizing that to maintain control of the people the Russian family had to be destroyed, Lenin passed a law whereby you could divorce your spouse simply by mailing or delivering a postcard to the local register without even notifying the spouse being divorced!</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Final thoughts?</p>
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<p><strong>Kupelian: </strong>Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Soviet dissident who exposed the evils of the gulag system to the world, once wrote: &#8220;More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: &#8216;Men have forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Decades later, Solzhenitsyn said that in trying to explain the totalitarian horrors that permeated the 20th century – which he himself endured – he could not improve on the explanation he had heard as a child: &#8220;Men have forgotten God.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>David Kupelian, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I have to tell our readers that <em>How Evil Works</em> is a brilliant book. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Evil-Works-Understanding-Transforming/dp/1439168199">Buy it</a>!!!!</p>
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		<title>Defending Gitmo&#8217;s Lawyers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left tries to squelch debate about the “Al-Qaeda Seven.”]]></description>
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<p>Joe McCarthy lives, and his name is Liz Cheney. Such has been the overreaction of the Left, and much of the establishment media, to the now-famous “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxg7LmlEQg">al-Qaeda seven</a>” internet ad aired by Keep America Safe, the political group which the former vice president’s daughter co-chairs.</p>
<p>Despite being denounced as a McCarthyite smear job, the ad’s content was relatively tame. It called on Attorney General <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2357">Eric Holder</a> to reveal the identities of seven of the nine Justice Department lawyers who represented or advocated for the Guantanamo Bay detainees while in private practice. (Holder already has named two of them.)</p>
<p>Just as notable – yet not nearly as noted – is what the ad did not say. At no point did it call for the DOJ attorneys to be fired for supplying legal counsel to terrorist detainees. In that respect, it was very different from the Left’s campaign to criminally prosecute attorneys in the Bush administration’s Justice Department who wrote memos justifying the use of harsh interrogation on Guantanamo detainees like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6162">National Lawyer’s Guild</a>, the premier left-wing legal group, has even <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/09/nationals-lawyers-guild-calls-for-yoos-disbarment/">called</a> for one of those attorneys, John Yoo, to be disbarred, fired from his job as a professor at Berkeley law school, and tried as a war criminal. Nothing in the Keep America Safe ad even approaches that level of politically motivated sabotage.</p>
<p>That distinction has not deterred the ad’s left-wing critics from waxing indignant about the injustice supposedly done to the seven anonymous DOJ attorneys. For the Left, the DOJ lawyers who represented Guantanamo detainees follow in the proud American tradition of providing counsel to unpopular clients. Liberal columnist Eugene Robinson recently <a href="http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/13/1810564/liz-cheneys-group-puts-politics.html#ixzz0iChzYFXO">scolded</a> that the lawyers targeted in the ad</p>
<blockquote><p>“…did what lawyers are supposed to do in this country: Ensure that even the most unpopular defendants have adequate legal representation and that the government obeys the law.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But that analogy is specious. Guantanamo’s al-Qaeda detainees aren’t unpopular criminals. They are enemy combatants and, as such, have no constitutional right to legal counsel – a legal tradition recognized by the Supreme Court since World War II. As Andrew McCarthy <a href="http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/03/opposing-view-no-right-to-counsel.html">points out</a>:</p>
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<blockquote><p>“The al-Qaeda detainees at issue are not accused defendants. They are plaintiffs filing offensive lawsuits (habeas corpus claims) against the American people during wartime. Unpopular American inmates must represent themselves in such suits because there is no right to counsel.”</p></blockquote>
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<p>With the legal precedent decidedly not in their favor, the ad’s foes on the Left have resorted to shrill cries of “McCarthyism.” <em>Nation</em> contributor and long-time anti-Guantanamo activist David Cole recently raged that Liz Cheney “challenged the loyalty and patriotism” of the lawyers who had represented the Guantanamo detainees. Whether or not one agrees with that description, it’s peculiar that Cole should take issue with this approach. After all, left-wing activists have long claimed that Bush attorneys like John Yoo should be tried for “<a href="http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/38067#comment-222161">treason</a>” for supposedly singing off on “torture” – a passion for questioning patriotism that Cole, the author <em>The Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable, </em>has done much to fuel.<em> </em></p>
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<p>Even granting Cole’s premise that the ad questioned the patriotism of the DOJ lawyers, the logical response is: So what? Why should it be off-limits to question the motives of lawyers who volunteered their services to America’s terrorist enemies? Especially when those services could have jeopardized the war on terror – and endangered American soldiers – by securing the release of terrorist combatants?</p>
<p>In fairness, even some on the Right have objected to the ad’s implication that the DOJ lawyers harbored pro-terrorist sympathies. (&#8220;Whose values do they share?&#8221; the narration portentously asks.) That may have overstated the case, but the fact remains that while the Guantanamo lawyers are not themselves jihadists they have aided the jihadists’ cause. Some went further than others: As Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn detail in the <em><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704131404575117611125872740.html">Wall Street Journal</a></em><strong> </strong>today, lawyers for the detainees occasionally defined zealous representation to mean inciting the detainees; distributing anti-American propaganda; encouraging the detainees to claim they were abused and tortured; and even endangering Guantanamo’s guards by handing out a map of the detention camp’s layout, including the guard towers.</p>
<p>No one has suggested that the seven unnamed DOJ lawyers were involved in those cases or used those tactics. But then that was Keep America Safe’s point in its ad: to establish which of the Guantanamo lawyers is serving in the Justice Department and to determine what influence, if any, they may have over national security policy generally and Guantanamo Bay in particular.</p>
<p>That disclosure may be in the administration’s interest, and not only because Obama was elected on a promise of unparalleled transparency. Although the administration has largely maintained the Bush administration’s detention policies – from rendition and indefinite detention to military tribunals – it blundered badly when it proposed a civilian trial in New York for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. A bipartisan backlash seems to have convinced the administration to abandon that plan. It’s impossible to know if that move came on the advice of any of the Guantanamo lawyers. But if so, the scrutiny brought on by the ad the Left loves to hate may be the perfect opportunity to reshuffle the DOJ ranks in the interest of better legal counsel.</p>
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		<title>Corruptocrat Eric Holder&#8217;s National Security Cover-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The White House wants to play Transparency Olympics with the Tea Party movement. President Obama&#8217;s Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin dared Tea Party activists and conservatives last week to &#8220;push the administration to make its policies more open&#8221; and make it a &#8220;political competition … to see who can be more radical in their openness,&#8221; The Hill reported. So, let&#8217;s start by knocking down Attorney General Eric Holder&#8217;s national security stonewall at the Department of Justice, shall we? Let the sun shine in.</p>
<p>For more than a year, I&#8217;ve been writing about the looming national security and conflict-of-interest problems posed by Holder&#8217;s status as a former partner at the prestigious law firm Covington and Burling. The company currently represents or has provided pro bono representation and sob-story media-relations campaigns in the past to more than a dozen Gitmo detainees from Yemen who are seeking civilian trials on American soil.</p>
<p>The firm wasn&#8217;t just a bit player. It led the charge, contributing more than 3,000 hours to Gitmo litigation in 2007, according to The American Lawyer. At least one known Covington big shot and fellow former Clintonite, Lanny Breuer, now works for Holder as head of the DOJ&#8217;s criminal division. Though he himself did not participate in the detainee cases, Holder&#8217;s celebrity undoubtedly boosted company-wide prestige.</p>
<p>How many of Holder&#8217;s former colleagues and associates are now on the DOJ payroll? How many like them, who worked at other law firms or for left-wing lobbying groups, now inhabit DOJ offices? How many of them have been allowed to work on government terrorism cases related to their past crusades for al-Qaida-tied clients? How many have had to recuse themselves — and have those recusals been full and forthcoming? How can the public judge whether these lawyers are representing America&#8217;s best interests — or those of the jihadis?</p>
<p>GOP Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa has been trying to get answers. DOJ information suppressors have snubbed him repeatedly. As the Washington Examiner&#8217;s Byron York reported on Friday, Holder has now acknowledged that &#8220;at least&#8221; nine Obama appointees in the Justice Department &#8220;have represented or advocated for terrorist detainees before joining the Justice Department.&#8221; But the tight-lipped, taxpayer-funded litigators at the agency won&#8217;t name names or cough up any relevant details.</p>
<p>Grassley asked for &#8220;the names of political appointees in the Department who represented detainees (or) worked for organizations advocating on behalf of detainees … the cases or projects that these appointees worked on with respect to detainees prior to joining the Justice Department … and the cases or projects relating to detainees that they have worked on since joining the Justice Department.</p>
<p>…&#8221; Beyond two DOJ appointees whose work for jihadi defendants had already been made public, Holder gave up nothing. Zip. Zilch.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not even clear that the Gitmo Nine are the end of the line. The list is not a comprehensive tally of DOJ appointees, Holder told Grassley and other GOP senators who pressed for public disclosure. Why not? What are they trying to hide? Who are they trying to spare?</p>
<p>Americans have a right to know whether they are subsidizing jihadi sympathizers, and whether their Justice Department is now a sanctuary for human rights transnationalists and little terrorists&#8217; helpers in the mold of Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of abetting Muslim terrorist mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and spreading messages inciting violence on his behalf while representing him.</p>
<p>Americans have a right to know whether Holder — who put political interests ahead of security interests at the Clinton Justice Department in both the Marc Rich pardon scandal and the Puerto Rican FALN terrorist debacle — has made hiring decisions that provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare.</p>
<p>Tellingly, Holder has treated the GOP&#8217;s national security concerns dismissively. He&#8217;s hoping his nonresponsive blow-off of Grassley&#8217;s request will die on the vine. And just as he used his past lapses in judgment during the Clinton era to argue that they made him more qualified for the job he holds now, Holder argues that the phantom jihadi lawyers on the DOJ payroll are a good thing for the country, so we should just shut up:</p>
<p>&#8220;A prosecutor of white-collar fraud cases may have previously represented defendants in such cases. This familiarity with and experience in the relevant area of law redounds to the government&#8217;s benefit.&#8221;</p>
<p>As usual, Holder puts ordinary civilian crimes on the same footing as terrorism plots and acts of war against our country. But why not let the people decide for themselves whether his staff decisions redound to their benefit? &#8220;The American people have the right to information about their government&#8217;s activities,&#8221; Holder himself said in a press release trumpeting new freedom of information rules last year. Put up or shut up, Mr. Attorney General.</p>
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