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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (56437)	3/23/2006 10:53:14 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 93284

Cream-Puff Justice [Moussaoui & Clinton appointee Brinkema] Investor's Business Daily ^ \| 3/23/06 When an admitted al-Qaida operative pleads guilty to conspiracy to murder thousands of innocents, it's obvious he deserves the death penalty — except to extremist federal judges like Brinkema. Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested for immigration violations by the FBI less than a month before the attacks, after suspicions arose about his attending a Minnesota flight school. Last year, he admitted to conspiring with al-Qaida in the plot. The case against him is solid as a rock: The 9-11 attacks could have been stopped if Moussaoui had confessed instead of lying to the FBI after his arrest. Yet U.S. District Judge Brinkema is mulling whether to dismiss the U.S. government's request to impose the death sentence. The reason? A technicality: A government lawyer e-mailed trial transcripts to seven potential witnesses, violating a court order. [snip] Who, after all, is more deserving of capital punishment than the likes of Moussaoui, who smiled in court during accounts of the four jets plowing into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon? [snip] But Brinkema is not known for letting ordinary Americans decide things for themselves. Placed on the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1993, she is also responsible for extreme rulings regarding Internet pornography. In her 1998 Urofsky ruling, she contended it was unconstitutional to bar state employees from spending time at work on their computers viewing pornography. She was unanimously overturned by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals the next year. Her Loudoun ruling the same year prevented a local library from blocking sexual explicit Web sites on its computers — even to protect employees from sexual harassment. The library chose to remove all computers instead of appealing. Brinkema's extremism teaches a clear lesson: Even at the lower- court level it's vitally important to appoint judges who enforce the law, not make it. (Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...

To: longnshort who wrote (56437)	3/24/2006 9:54:54 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Freed Peace Creeps Insult Rescuers (Ungrateful"!) Little Green Footballs ^ \| 3/23/06 US and British forces located and freed the remaining three hostages from Christian Peacemaker Teams. In return, officials of CPT blamed the coalition for the kidnapping: Three Christian Activists Rescued in Iraq. The Christian Peacemaker Teams said the activists went to Iraq “motivated by a passion for justice and peace.” Group volunteers have been in Iraq since October 2002, investigating allegations of abuse against Iraqi detainees by coalition forces. Its teams promote peaceful solutions in conflict zones. “They knew that their only protection was in the power of the love of God and of their Iraqi and international co-workers,” Pritchard said. He also called for coalition forces to leave the country. “We believe that the illegal occupation of Iraq by Multinational Forces is the root cause of the insecurity which led to this kidnapping and so much pain and suffering in Iraq,” Pritchard said. Here’s their statement: cpt.org Lots of groveling to the Islamic world and overly demonstrative “sympathy” for the Iraqi people, but not one word of gratitude to the soldiers who freed their fellow moonbats.