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At 11:50 PM 12/9/2001 -0500, Richard wrote:
>Here's a famous US citizen who is less than enamoured with the way the
>system works.
>http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
I'll assume that most people have never heard much about Ramsey Clark,
since he's hardly a household name. The short version is that he's a dupe
of a bunch of Stalinists who spends much of his time these days working on
behalf of suspected war criminals. The detail below is probably overkill,
but it's important to know just how "out there" this guy is.
Clark's big claim to fame before he became an apologist for war criminals
was that he prosecuted Dr. Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft
dodging. What's he been up to lately?
Well, in 1998 he went to Iraq and gave a speech criticizing the United
Nations Declaration on Human Rights because it had been drawn up by "the
governments of the rich nations, primarily the United States, England and
France" and didn't fit the particulars of what the Iraqi state considers
human rights to be.
A little later he made an appearance in Belgrade to show his support for
that great humanitarian of our time, Slobodan Milosivec. Clark has actually
acted as a lawyer for Radovan Karadzic. You might remember Karadzic as a
Serbian war criminal who oversaw the murder of 6,000 Muslims at Srebrenica
in 7/1995. Among other things, Karadzic was one of a number of Serbian
commanders who actively encouarged rape as a weapon to debilitate resisting
populations. It seems some of the victims decided to sue Karadzic in the
U.S., Clark agreed to defend Karaczic? (And what war criminal wouldn't want
a former US AG in his corner?)
But whatever you can say for him, Clark is not a racist. He's also helping
to defend Elizaphan Ntakirutimana who was accused of helping to organize
genocidal actions in Rwanda. Ntakirutimana was a pastor who invited a bunch
of Tutsis to come to hide in his church, somehow forgetting that he had
also invited a Hutu death squad to show up at the same time. Carnage ensued.
The amusing thing is that Clark doesn't even waste much effort arguing that
his client is not guilty. Instead, he constantly asserts that the
international tribune set up to prosecute Rwandan genocide is a tool of
Western colonial powers and therefore is not a legitimate court at all (as
opposed to say the way that his client dealt with the Tutsis).
This is the tip of the iceberg, btw. Remember when the PLO took over the
cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1984 and murdered the wheelchair-bound Leon
Klinghoffer? Klinghoffer's family filed a wrongful death suit against the
PLO, and Clark gladly offered his help to defend the Palestinian group. He
even served on the defense team of a Nazi who was being deported from the
US. Clark said he couldn't figure out why people were still trying to
prosecute such individuals "forty years after some god-awful crime they're
alleged to have committed."
Notice the introduction to the article you linked to:
"Clark is founder and chairperson of the International Action Center, the
largest antiwar movement in the United States."
The IAC is a communist front group. That group was set up not by Clark, but
rather by the Worker's World Party which handles the day-to-day operations
of the IAC and a number of other front groups. (The leftist anarchists at
Infoshop.Org have a good rundown about this at
http://www.infoshop.org/texts/wwp.html).
Before he fell in with the Commies, Clark was a good buddy of my favorite
crackpot, Lyndon LaRouche.
Bottom line -- the guy's a complete nut case.
>Here's a famous US citizen who is less than enamoured with the way the
>system works.
>http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
I'll assume that most people have never heard much about Ramsey Clark,
since he's hardly a household name. The short version is that he's a dupe
of a bunch of Stalinists who spends much of his time these days working on
behalf of suspected war criminals. The detail below is probably overkill,
but it's important to know just how "out there" this guy is.
Clark's big claim to fame before he became an apologist for war criminals
was that he prosecuted Dr. Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft
dodging. What's he been up to lately?
Well, in 1998 he went to Iraq and gave a speech criticizing the United
Nations Declaration on Human Rights because it had been drawn up by "the
governments of the rich nations, primarily the United States, England and
France" and didn't fit the particulars of what the Iraqi state considers
human rights to be.
A little later he made an appearance in Belgrade to show his support for
that great humanitarian of our time, Slobodan Milosivec. Clark has actually
acted as a lawyer for Radovan Karadzic. You might remember Karadzic as a
Serbian war criminal who oversaw the murder of 6,000 Muslims at Srebrenica
in 7/1995. Among other things, Karadzic was one of a number of Serbian
commanders who actively encouarged rape as a weapon to debilitate resisting
populations. It seems some of the victims decided to sue Karadzic in the
U.S., Clark agreed to defend Karaczic? (And what war criminal wouldn't want
a former US AG in his corner?)
But whatever you can say for him, Clark is not a racist. He's also helping
to defend Elizaphan Ntakirutimana who was accused of helping to organize
genocidal actions in Rwanda. Ntakirutimana was a pastor who invited a bunch
of Tutsis to come to hide in his church, somehow forgetting that he had
also invited a Hutu death squad to show up at the same time. Carnage ensued.
The amusing thing is that Clark doesn't even waste much effort arguing that
his client is not guilty. Instead, he constantly asserts that the
international tribune set up to prosecute Rwandan genocide is a tool of
Western colonial powers and therefore is not a legitimate court at all (as
opposed to say the way that his client dealt with the Tutsis).
This is the tip of the iceberg, btw. Remember when the PLO took over the
cruise ship Achille Lauro in 1984 and murdered the wheelchair-bound Leon
Klinghoffer? Klinghoffer's family filed a wrongful death suit against the
PLO, and Clark gladly offered his help to defend the Palestinian group. He
even served on the defense team of a Nazi who was being deported from the
US. Clark said he couldn't figure out why people were still trying to
prosecute such individuals "forty years after some god-awful crime they're
alleged to have committed."
Notice the introduction to the article you linked to:
"Clark is founder and chairperson of the International Action Center, the
largest antiwar movement in the United States."
The IAC is a communist front group. That group was set up not by Clark, but
rather by the Worker's World Party which handles the day-to-day operations
of the IAC and a number of other front groups. (The leftist anarchists at
Infoshop.Org have a good rundown about this at
http://www.infoshop.org/texts/wwp.html).
Before he fell in with the Commies, Clark was a good buddy of my favorite
crackpot, Lyndon LaRouche.
Bottom line -- the guy's a complete nut case.
Replies
| Re: Opinion of Former Attorney General ( 12/10/2001 by Jim Roepcke ) | |
| Excuse me Seth: does Brian's argument fall under the category of "ad hominem"? |
| RE: Opinion of Former Attorney General ( 12/10/2001 by Richard Knox ) | |
| Brian - No doubt Ramsey Clark has wandered over a lot of philosophical ground. |
