Double Standards -- Liberal/Left Hypocrisy
According to the Washington Post, Iran just sanctioned the stoning to death of an adulterer. Last month two men were stoned to death for the same "crime" (have you had a look under the Chador / Burka to see what you are getting?).
The Iranian Penal Code mandates that a male to be stoned to death should be buried up to his waist and a female up to her chest. The stones to be used are not to be so large as to kill the victim immediately. That is Sharia Law, and what jurists in England, France and the United States claim should be able to operate side-by-side with those respective legal systems.
The European Union -- that bunch of craven, miserable toads -- "heavily criticized" the practice of stoning. Yet, within the Europeans Union there are those who take their "outrage" at barbaric practices far more to heart: Spanish judges start actions to bring violators of human rights to justice. Nasty Americans, for instance.
Baltasar Garzon is a "counter-terrorism" judge who has referred the case of abused Guantanamo prisoners to Spanish prosecutors for the eventual arrest and prosecution of six senior Bush Administration officials. Under Spanish law, the prosecutors will have little option but to persue the case. The same system resulted in Pinochet being tried and found guilty in absentia, followed by his arrest in London on an international warrant. Garzon operates under the theory of "universal jurisdiction." A few years earlier, some Germans tried the same thing, targeting Cheney and Bush, but the prosecutor involved deflected the attempt stating that such matters would best be addressed within the United States itself.
In the present iteration, the Spanish prosecutor will issue a "subpoena ad testificandum" -- come into my parlor and testify. This will be followed by an arrest warrant, for the ex-Bush official to be remanded to custody pending trial. Since the crime is "torture," (perhaps violation of human rights or some such drivel), the arrest warrant is almost a certainty following precedent. Now comes the sneaky part -- pay close attention -- once the arrest warrant issues, the Obama administration faces two options: (1) fight or accept the extradition request; or (2) bring an action in the United States directly that addresses the charges brought in Spain, which in effect nullifies the Spanish action. That is, a Spanish leftie-psycho Judge can force the political prosecution of U.S. officials. Didn't the Spanish also have an Inquisition? Is there something in the water there that incites people to rabid pursuit of irrational beliefs?
Back to the plot: Ah hah! So who are the lucky recipients of the New Inquisition? "They are: Alberto Gonzales, a former White House counsel and attorney general; David Addington, former vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff; Douglas Feith, who was under-secretary of defence; William Haynes, formerly the Pentagon's general counsel; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, who were both senior justice department legal advisers." (London Independent).
Do the names Bybee and Yoo mean little to you now? That is probably because nobody much cared who the lawyers are that "sanctioned" torture by the United States. The lawyers who through a "twisted interpretation" of the law, achieved the goals of a legal framework with which to wring out information from real terrorists. Nobody except Barry Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the New York Times.
Is this starting to make sense to you now? Do you not see a "vast left-wing conspiracy" (to [ab]use Hillary Clinton's famous phrase) designed to punish, through use of the courts, the class enemies, political enemies in the great tradition of Stalin, Mao and notable European dictators?
Barry Obama opened the door to prosecution of the officials of the previous administration within the last two weeks ... so much has been already reported by the New York Times and its adherents. Then they targeted the lawyers, because having tested the waters of roping in the CIA, they decided that it would be too detrimental, politically, to do further damage there. And the lawyers are the self-same characters ALREADY targeted by the Spanish judge. Obama just removed the doubt that he would fight extradition. So the question remains, does he hand these people over to the Judge, or does he do a show trial in the United States? It is clear that he operating under the influence of the International Left: the Spanish made their move at the end of March -- not that we in the US heard much about it -- and Obama's moves (leaks, slips, innuendo) are all from the month of April. Where and when was the decision made to seek to punish the outgoing administration?
What is Barry Obama playing at? If I needed any more convincing that our President may in fact be the ultimate "Manchurian Candidate," I need look no further.
Right after 9/11, Congressional leaders (Pelosi WAS briefed) were concerned that we did not go far enough in extracting whatever information that we could from our few captives. They -- and that includes Pelosi -- wanted the Bush administration to get information at all costs, no doubt thinking of their own political careers first. And as far as "torture" goes, our methods are pretty small beer in the vast world of torture. I have little to no doubt that in every Muslim terrorist training camp, lesson #1 is on how to avoid freaking out under waterboarding. The rest of it -- stress positions, sleep deprivation, etc. ... have you ever been forced to spend 54 hours straight in a room full of Skadden lawyers trying to hammer out a purchase and sale agreement on an M&A deal? Gitmo skunks don't know shit about sleep deprivation. Stress positions? Puhleaze.
Torture is not what some panty-waisted Liberal would rather avoid, it is about infliction of physical unendurable pain on an individual without regard to that individual's short or longterm health, physical or mental well being. Permanent, irreversable harm, disfigurement and pain are the products of torture: shattered minds and bodies. Nobody can be serious about his "religious pain" or humiliation. Want humiliation? Go to law school and summarize a conlaw case incorrectly in front of a class of 50. Get caught like Hugh Grant. I fail to see how nakedness and being subjected to a sniffing dog will do that -- because you "believe" them to be dirty. Dirty? How about the prinsoner himself in the mountains of Afghanistan? Had a shower lately? Waterboarding ... that must be unpleasant indeed to break these SOBs that quickly. But torture or mere shock/novelty? There is no way that it will work now, we just handed the enemy our playbook.
The "victims" of U.S. "torture" have shown a willingness to abrogate the human rights of their captives ... cutting off people's heads with pocket knives while the dying man screams through a gurgling, slashed throat. Are we afraid of what they might do to us if we hurt them? What? The Taleban (Gitmo USDA Prime cell-rats) have shown a certain affection for the more extreme forms of Sharia law that might even give Iranians pause to think. And we are worried about the how the world views our treatment of Gitmo inhabitants? Remember, those that we have released from Gitmo have largely gone right back to jihad. Are we stupid?
Yet, we cringe and recoil, bow and scrape every time some idiot (whom we have spent decades and untold billions protecting) in Europe claims that we, the United States, is the source of evil. The truth of the matter is this: Europe and Europeans are afraid of the Muslim time bomb within their midst. The birth rates of Christian Europeans is so low, that within 20 years large parts of Europe will be de facto Muslim countries. The European Left is blind to this fact and/or wants to destroy European society anyway, little realizing that the society that will take its place will utterly and completely destroy the Left and socialism: Islam has no room for other beliefs and systems. Islam has no room for Garzon, unless he wants to go to Mullah-school.
Hence the EU criticizes Iran for stoning people to death for adultery and wants to prosecute Americans for protecting their country. And Barry Obama, ever eager to impress his socialist allies as to what a good lefty he is, goes along with it -- or even orchestrates it....
The Iranian Penal Code mandates that a male to be stoned to death should be buried up to his waist and a female up to her chest. The stones to be used are not to be so large as to kill the victim immediately. That is Sharia Law, and what jurists in England, France and the United States claim should be able to operate side-by-side with those respective legal systems.
The European Union -- that bunch of craven, miserable toads -- "heavily criticized" the practice of stoning. Yet, within the Europeans Union there are those who take their "outrage" at barbaric practices far more to heart: Spanish judges start actions to bring violators of human rights to justice. Nasty Americans, for instance.
Baltasar Garzon is a "counter-terrorism" judge who has referred the case of abused Guantanamo prisoners to Spanish prosecutors for the eventual arrest and prosecution of six senior Bush Administration officials. Under Spanish law, the prosecutors will have little option but to persue the case. The same system resulted in Pinochet being tried and found guilty in absentia, followed by his arrest in London on an international warrant. Garzon operates under the theory of "universal jurisdiction." A few years earlier, some Germans tried the same thing, targeting Cheney and Bush, but the prosecutor involved deflected the attempt stating that such matters would best be addressed within the United States itself.
In the present iteration, the Spanish prosecutor will issue a "subpoena ad testificandum" -- come into my parlor and testify. This will be followed by an arrest warrant, for the ex-Bush official to be remanded to custody pending trial. Since the crime is "torture," (perhaps violation of human rights or some such drivel), the arrest warrant is almost a certainty following precedent. Now comes the sneaky part -- pay close attention -- once the arrest warrant issues, the Obama administration faces two options: (1) fight or accept the extradition request; or (2) bring an action in the United States directly that addresses the charges brought in Spain, which in effect nullifies the Spanish action. That is, a Spanish leftie-psycho Judge can force the political prosecution of U.S. officials. Didn't the Spanish also have an Inquisition? Is there something in the water there that incites people to rabid pursuit of irrational beliefs?
Back to the plot: Ah hah! So who are the lucky recipients of the New Inquisition? "They are: Alberto Gonzales, a former White House counsel and attorney general; David Addington, former vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff; Douglas Feith, who was under-secretary of defence; William Haynes, formerly the Pentagon's general counsel; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, who were both senior justice department legal advisers." (London Independent).
Do the names Bybee and Yoo mean little to you now? That is probably because nobody much cared who the lawyers are that "sanctioned" torture by the United States. The lawyers who through a "twisted interpretation" of the law, achieved the goals of a legal framework with which to wring out information from real terrorists. Nobody except Barry Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the New York Times.
Is this starting to make sense to you now? Do you not see a "vast left-wing conspiracy" (to [ab]use Hillary Clinton's famous phrase) designed to punish, through use of the courts, the class enemies, political enemies in the great tradition of Stalin, Mao and notable European dictators?
Barry Obama opened the door to prosecution of the officials of the previous administration within the last two weeks ... so much has been already reported by the New York Times and its adherents. Then they targeted the lawyers, because having tested the waters of roping in the CIA, they decided that it would be too detrimental, politically, to do further damage there. And the lawyers are the self-same characters ALREADY targeted by the Spanish judge. Obama just removed the doubt that he would fight extradition. So the question remains, does he hand these people over to the Judge, or does he do a show trial in the United States? It is clear that he operating under the influence of the International Left: the Spanish made their move at the end of March -- not that we in the US heard much about it -- and Obama's moves (leaks, slips, innuendo) are all from the month of April. Where and when was the decision made to seek to punish the outgoing administration?
What is Barry Obama playing at? If I needed any more convincing that our President may in fact be the ultimate "Manchurian Candidate," I need look no further.
Right after 9/11, Congressional leaders (Pelosi WAS briefed) were concerned that we did not go far enough in extracting whatever information that we could from our few captives. They -- and that includes Pelosi -- wanted the Bush administration to get information at all costs, no doubt thinking of their own political careers first. And as far as "torture" goes, our methods are pretty small beer in the vast world of torture. I have little to no doubt that in every Muslim terrorist training camp, lesson #1 is on how to avoid freaking out under waterboarding. The rest of it -- stress positions, sleep deprivation, etc. ... have you ever been forced to spend 54 hours straight in a room full of Skadden lawyers trying to hammer out a purchase and sale agreement on an M&A deal? Gitmo skunks don't know shit about sleep deprivation. Stress positions? Puhleaze.
Torture is not what some panty-waisted Liberal would rather avoid, it is about infliction of physical unendurable pain on an individual without regard to that individual's short or longterm health, physical or mental well being. Permanent, irreversable harm, disfigurement and pain are the products of torture: shattered minds and bodies. Nobody can be serious about his "religious pain" or humiliation. Want humiliation? Go to law school and summarize a conlaw case incorrectly in front of a class of 50. Get caught like Hugh Grant. I fail to see how nakedness and being subjected to a sniffing dog will do that -- because you "believe" them to be dirty. Dirty? How about the prinsoner himself in the mountains of Afghanistan? Had a shower lately? Waterboarding ... that must be unpleasant indeed to break these SOBs that quickly. But torture or mere shock/novelty? There is no way that it will work now, we just handed the enemy our playbook.
The "victims" of U.S. "torture" have shown a willingness to abrogate the human rights of their captives ... cutting off people's heads with pocket knives while the dying man screams through a gurgling, slashed throat. Are we afraid of what they might do to us if we hurt them? What? The Taleban (Gitmo USDA Prime cell-rats) have shown a certain affection for the more extreme forms of Sharia law that might even give Iranians pause to think. And we are worried about the how the world views our treatment of Gitmo inhabitants? Remember, those that we have released from Gitmo have largely gone right back to jihad. Are we stupid?
Yet, we cringe and recoil, bow and scrape every time some idiot (whom we have spent decades and untold billions protecting) in Europe claims that we, the United States, is the source of evil. The truth of the matter is this: Europe and Europeans are afraid of the Muslim time bomb within their midst. The birth rates of Christian Europeans is so low, that within 20 years large parts of Europe will be de facto Muslim countries. The European Left is blind to this fact and/or wants to destroy European society anyway, little realizing that the society that will take its place will utterly and completely destroy the Left and socialism: Islam has no room for other beliefs and systems. Islam has no room for Garzon, unless he wants to go to Mullah-school.
Hence the EU criticizes Iran for stoning people to death for adultery and wants to prosecute Americans for protecting their country. And Barry Obama, ever eager to impress his socialist allies as to what a good lefty he is, goes along with it -- or even orchestrates it....
posted by Zaphod at Wednesday, May 06, 2009
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