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Skriven 2007-08-31 14:56:00 av TIM RICHARDSON
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Ärende: More neo-con tactics
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On 08-30-07, DAN CEPPA said to TIM RICHARDSON:



DC>BTW, much has been said on voter fraud.  Why are you, and Ann
DC>herself, so quiet on her own fraudulent voter registration?


TR> *What* `fraudulent voter registration'? So far......she has been
TR> convicted of *nothing*. Are you even on the same page as the rest of
TR> us?


TR> By the way.....wasn't that dropped recently?


DC>Nope, it's still open.  Though, getting the Republican gov and
DC>former Atty Gen to act on the matter is a different story.





RENO 911


August 29, 2007


This week, congressional Democrats vowed to investigate Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales' firing of himself. Gonzales has said he was not involved in
the discussions about his firing and that it was "performance-based," but he
couldn't recall the specifics.


Right-wingers like me never trusted Gonzales. But watching Hillary Rodham
Clinton literally applaud the announcement of Gonzales' resignation on Monday
was more than any human being should have to bear. Liberals' hysteria about
Gonzales was surpassed only by their hysteria about his predecessor, John
Ashcroft. (Also their hysteria about Bush, Rove, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Libby,
Rice, Barney and so on. They're very excitable, these Democrats.)


Liberals want to return the office to the glory years of Attorney General
Janet Reno!


There is reason to believe Reno is precisely the sort of attorney general
that Hillary would nominate, since Reno was widely assumed to be Hillary's
pick at the time. As ABC News' Chris Bury reported the day Reno was
confirmed: "The search for an attorney general exemplifies Hillary Clinton's
circle of influence and its clout. ... The attorney general-designate, Janet
Reno, came to the president's attention through Hillary Clinton's brother,
Hugh Rodham."


Let's compare attorneys general:


-- Civilians killed by Ashcroft: 0

-- Civilians killed by Gonzales: 0

-- Civilians killed by Reno: 80


Reno's military attack on a religious sect in Waco, Texas, led to the
greatest number of citizens ever killed by the government in the history of
the United States. More Americans were killed at Waco than were killed at any
of the various markers on the left's via dolorosa -- more than Kent State (4
killed), more than the Haymarket Square rebellion (4 killed), more than Three
Mile Island (0 killed).


-- Innocent people put in prison by Ashcroft: 0

-- Innocent people put in prison by Gonzales: 0

-- Innocent people put in prison by Reno: at least 1 that I know of

As Dade County (Fla.) state attorney, Janet Reno made a name for herself as
one of the leading witch-hunters in the notorious "child molestation" cases
from the '80s, when convictions of innocent Americans were won on the basis
of heavily coached testimony from small children.


Charged by Reno's office in 1984 with child molestation, Grant Snowden was
convicted on the manufactured testimony of one such child, who was 4 years
old when the abuse allegedly occurred.


Snowden, the most decorated police officer in the history of the South Miami
Police Department, was sentenced to five life terms -- and was imprisoned
with people he had put there. Snowden served 11 years before his conviction
was finally overturned by a federal court in an opinion that ridiculed the
evidence against him and called his trial "fundamentally unfair."


In a massive criminal justice system, mistakes will be made from time to
time.


But Janet Reno put people like Snowden in prison not only for crimes that
they didn't commit -- but also for crimes that never happened. Such was the
soccer-mom-induced hysteria of the '80s, when innocent people were prosecuted
for fantastical crimes concocted in therapists' offices.


-- Number of obvious civil rights violations ignored by Ashcroft: 0

-- Number of obvious civil rights violations ignored by Gonzales: 0

-- Number of obvious civil rights violations ignored by Reno: at least 1


On Aug. 19, 1991, rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum was stabbed to death in
Crown Heights by a black racist mob shouting "Kill the Jew!" as retaliation
for another Hasidic man killing a black child in a car accident hours
earlier.


In a far clearer case of jury nullification than the first Rodney King
verdict, a jury composed of nine blacks and three Puerto Ricans acquitted
Lemrick Nelson Jr. of the murder -- despite the fact that the police found
the bloody murder weapon in his pocket and Rosenbaum's blood on his clothes,
and that Rosenbaum, as he lay dying, had identified Nelson as his assailant.


The Hasidic community immediately appealed to the attorney general for a
federal civil rights prosecution of Nelson. Reno responded with utter
mystification at the idea that anyone's civil rights had been violated.


Civil rights? Where do you get that?


Because they were chanting "Kill the Jew," Rosenbaum is a Jew, and they
killed him.


Huh. That's a weird interpretation of "civil rights." It sounds a little
harebrained to me, but I guess I could have someone look into it.


It took two years from Nelson's acquittal to get Reno to bring a civil rights
case against him.


-- Number of innocent civilians accused of committing heinous crimes by
Ashcroft: 0

-- Number of innocent civilians accused of committing heinous crimes by
Gonzales: 0

-- Number of innocent civilians accused of committing heinous crimes by Reno:
at least 1


Janet Reno presided over the leak of Richard Jewell's name to the media,
implicating him in the Atlanta Olympic park bombing in 1996, for which she
later apologized. I believe Reno also falsely accused the Miami relatives of
Elian Gonzalez of violating the law, which I am not including in her record
of false accusations, but reminds me of another comparison.


Number of 6-year-old boys deported to totalitarian dictatorships by Ashcroft:
0

Number of 6-year-old boys deported to totalitarian dictatorships by Gonzales:
0

Number of 6-year-old boys deported to totalitarian dictatorships by Reno: 1


Not until Bush became president was the media interested in discussing the
shortcomings of the attorney general. Whatever flaws Alberto Gonzales has
(John Ashcroft has none), we don't have to go back to the Harding
administration to find a worse attorney general.


From the phony child abuse cases of the '80s to the military assault on
Americans at Waco, Janet Reno presided over the most egregious attacks on
Americans' basic liberties since the Salem witch trials. These outrageous
deprivations of life and liberty were not the work of fanatical right-wing
prosecutors, but liberals like Janet Reno.


Reno is the sort of wild-eyed zealot trampling on real civil rights that
Hillary views as an ideal attorney general, unlike that brute Alberto
Gonzales.
At least Reno didn't fire any U.S. attorneys!


Oh wait --


Number of U.S. attorneys fired by Ashcroft: 0

Number of U.S. attorneys fired by Gonzales: 8

Number of U.S. attorneys fired by Reno: 93


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