It's amazing we haven't been hit again by terrorists. When you consider the BDS inflicted obstructionism by the DNC, the treachery of the press & the judicial activism by leftist judges, we really are lucky it hasn't happened.
However, if crap like this continues, we WILL be hit again. Between relentless acts of treachery, exposing government secrets that aid & abet the enemy & knee-jerk obstructionism at every possible turn, all forcing the Bush Admin to fight the GWOT with both arms tied behind their backs; it is is just a matter of time before we get hit again.
And mark my words. If we do get hit again, none of the above will make the "newz" as the main cause. No, the MSM & DNC will be chanting in unison, "It's Bush's fault!!!".
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Bush Can't Designate Terror Groups: Judge
By Captain Ed on War on Terror
Captain's Quarters
A federal judge barred the Bush administration from specifying organizations that support terrorism for the purpose of freezing their assets and keeping funds from terrorists. US District Court Judge Audrey Collins blocked the administration from freezing the assets of the PKK and the Tamil Tigers, two rather obvious terrorist groups:
<<< A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday.
The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush's order, which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as "specially designated global terrorists" after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
"This law gave the president unfettered authority to create blacklists," said David Cole, a lawyer for the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Constitutional Rights that represented the group. "It was reminiscent of the McCarthy era."
The case centered on two groups, the Liberation Tigers, which seeks a separate homeland for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, and Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, a political organization representing the interests of Kurds in Turkey.
U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins enjoined the government from blocking the assets of the two groups. The same judge two years ago invalidated portions of the Patriot Act. >>>
Collins, a Clinton appointee, gained notoriety two years ago when she became the first federal judge to strike down provisions of the Patriot Act. Interestingly, she found that act, passed by Congress, also to be too vague to be constitutional. In that case, one of the plaintiffs was -- the PKK again, which got its terrorist designation not from the Bush administration under the Patriot Act or this executive order, but by Madeline Albright's State Department in 1997.
Nor was that the first time Collins has had a problem with anti-terrorist legislation. During the Clinton administration, she struck down the 1996 anti-terrorism law passed by Congress in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. Collins seems to have trouble reading the law, finding all counterterrorism legislation too vague to be understood. Perhaps the problem lies with Collins more than the laws themselves.
John Stephenson wrote about this ruling at Collins' cheerleaders earlier today:
I should really just stop right there. The ruling is
praised by a lawyer for terrorist sympathizing, Center For
Constitutional Rights! The Center for Constitutional
Rights is openly anti-American and pro-terrorist. Groups
suspected of ties to terrorism give money to CCR. The
granddaughter of the executed Communist spies Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg works there! At its 2004 annual
convention, the CCR honored attorney Lynne Stewart, an
open supporter of terrorism, indicted by the Justice
Department for abetting the terrorist activities of her
client, the “blind sheik,” Omar Abdel Rahman.
A lawyer from this organization praising this decision
says just about all we need to know about the ruling.
As the song says, you can tell the man who boozes by the company he chooses. This pig needs to get up and quickly run to the Court of Appeals, where we can hope for a few jurists who don't have terrorists' interests at heart.
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