Following her call to remove the "Al-Qaeda Seven," Liz Cheney has released a list of seven additional U.S. officials whose work on behalf of enemies of the state makes them unfit to serve their country:
John Adams defended British solders accused of perpetrating the Boston Massacre; he even had the gall to call it "one of the best pieces of service I ever rendered my country."
Alexander Hamilton represented Crown Loyalists following the Revolutionary War and advocated against expelling them from the United States.
Abraham Lincoln defended the accused murderer of Lincoln's former commanding officer in the Black Hawk War.
Henry Clay defended Aaron Burr, who was accused of trying to make war on Mexico.
Felix Frankfurter publicly argued for a retrial of alleged anarchist murderers Sacco and Vanzetti.
Robert Taft aided Nazi war criminals by criticizing the Nuremberg Trials.
Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor at Nuremberg Trials, turned soft and defended Communists during the 1950s.
Cheney's office declined to comment on reports that she is aggressively pursuing the abolition of the penny and the ten dollar bill.
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Ah, but these are people who want to destroy the precedent set by Nuremberg. They would be far more likely to declare the prosecutors of torturers, like William Miller, their 1964 VP candidate, to be "un-American."
waving the flag at the rite of letting the innocent die for the sake of bloated on blood ghouls...
Lets not just say no lets applaud the crazies as they throw bricks through our democracy and celebrate the return of storm troopers.
pakin lied and said that there was a death panel when there was not and the media was silent
He should be hung at the Hague, and she should be ignored...I mean what are her qualifications?
Case in point: al-Rabiah spent years wrongly imprisoned at Guantanamo. The CIA determined in 2002 he was innocent. NSA staffers knew he was innocent. Despite their knowledge of his innocence al-Rabiah languished for another 7 years in custody. He was finally released with the help from US attorney. Eight years of his life gone. Rabiah is only 1 out of countless others who have experienced the same ordeal. There is no justification in denying anyone the right to legal counsel.
Terrorists were treated as criminals and terrorist acts were criminal acts until Dick Cheney declared they were acts of war, reclassified terrorists as enemy combatants and set up military commissions. But of the 3 military trials, where the rules of evidence are more lenient than civilian courts, only 1 was convicted. From 2001 - 2005 Ashcroft brought criminal charges against 375 individuals, 195 were convicted, the others are pending.
Accusing someone of being an enemy does not automatically make that person an enemy. Liz knew around 90%, give-or-take, of the detainees were innocent, but for obvious reasons doesn't mention that. Until someone confronts her face-to-face, Liz will continue making blithe assertions that "suspected terrorists" don't deserve Constitutional rights or lawyers. But she's wrong and nothing can or will change that fact.
Cheney simply declare other Americans "un-American" according to her own definition and which then makes them legitimate targets for character assassination and persecution.
There is no blood shed to be sure, but its a similar self-serving, dispicable tactic.
She has no credibility on her own, and no qualifications. As for her father... most disgraced man in America.
Now the Republicans want to evict Ulysses S. Grant from the $50. Is there an anti-military streak there? Hamilton, their previous choice, was also a general by rank; at Washington's insistence, he served as Inspector General of the army under John Adams. As a young man Hamilton risked his life, and nearly lost it, at the Battles of Monmouth and Yorktown during the Revolution. The Republicans don't even like Teddy Roosevelt or Dwight D. Eisenhower--both military veterans.
Shame on the Republicans. And they laugh at progressives for "political correctness"!
If I were to evict anyone from the money, it would be Andrew Jackson, a slaveholder who presided over the removal of Indians from the Southeastern US. But that's a battle not worth fighting. However, I do think the Democrats should rename the Jefferson/Jackson Dinner the FDR/JFK Dinner, although the right would sneer if they did.
Pretty soon there may not be any paper money; everything will be electronic, and Americans will be even more ignorant of their historical figures.