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"Harry Hope" |
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03 Jan 2004 12:12:04 PM |
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We Got Him! sez Georgie. Wait a minute.....so what. |
From New York Newsday, 1/3/04:
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/nyc-bres0103,0,2114805.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists
No Safer With Saddam In The Slammer
By Jimmy Breslin
First, the other day, Howard Dean, candidate for president, said he
didn't think that the capture of Saddam Hussein made us any safer in
America.
The other politicians screamed that he was un-American.
It was John Kerry who said, How could Dean dare say that we were not
safer now?
You could see that just by watching how we examined Saddam Hussein for
scarlet fever in front of the world.
After Saddam's capture, there was a weekend of propaganda that will be
examined someday as the ultimate show of vulnerability and failure by
the American news industry.
The Pekingese of the Press raved about the government and its
soldiers.
We had 140,000 troops trying to find Saddam for almost a year.
On the day he was found, an American soldier was killed.
After that, 10 more were killed in a week.
The Homeland Security raised the alert to orange.
Planes coming to New York from Paris, London and Mexico were canceled.
New Year's Eve in Times Square was a neon arsenal.
In Las Vegas, the great Mayor Oscar Goodman waved at the sky to show
the air power over the strip.
He happily reported the available firepower on his streets.
Once, Oscar stood with a defendant, Nicky Scarfo, at his side and told
the jury, "I want you to concentrate on one thing: Forget the gun."
Of course we were no safer with Saddam in a detention pen.
And Dean was a miserable traitor for saying this, his opponents raged.
Howard Dean then said that maybe he was old-fashioned but he didn't
think you could judge or punish Osama bin Laden until you had a trial
and found him guilty.
That was as controversial as saying that when it rains in Queens, the
Van Wyck Expressway gets wet.
But suddenly, the Democratic candidates said the statement was
atrociously unpatriotic.
How can this man Dean say that bin Laden deserves a trial?
They said that this was a perfect illustration of Dean talking without
thought.
And completely un-American, too.
I watched and read all this while having a couple of days off, and I
was amazed.
National politicians, and the news industry calling out, What are you
talking about innocent until found guilty?
We're not even going to have a trial for this guy.
In 1945, they had the Nuremberg trial, for Nazis who had killed tens
and tens of millions, and had a judge, witnesses, evidence and defense
counsel.
Because he wants the same thing for bin Laden they say that Dean wants
to sell out America.
Joseph Leiberman, who is a peripheral candidate now and thus a nasty
little man, said that because Dean wants a fair trial Dean is
despicable and so weak that he would melt in the face of George W.
Bush.
John Kerry and ***** Gephardt were wildly opposed.
Yet all Dean has to do in this big Des Moines debate Sunday is ask
each candidate, "Are you in favor of sentencing bin Laden before you
have a trial?"
Let them answer in front of a country that is better than they are.
My friend David Greenfield, a top lawyer in Manhattan who takes on
murder cases, was reading some of this over the holiday.
He was saying, "This is insanity. I thought everybody knew that no
matter how high the crime or the criminal, the punishment phase always
must follow the trial. These people, they want off with his head and
we'll see if he's fit to stand trial."
The newsmen ought to be asked, too.
Story after story said that Dean had made another gaffe; he had called
for the Constitution to be used.
I was put into shock when I read a total insanity about this in a
column by Robert Novak.
I mention him because he is big enough to take anything.
The rest of the people I read are fleas.
And then here they came: every old Democratic job-holder, hoping for a
comeback and knowing Dean isn't the man to bring them back.
I made Joe Lockhart the worst.
He is a former Clinton flack, which made him the press agent for a red
light house.
He explained Monica Lewinsky to reporters.
He is one of those news business failures who took up dreary
government press agentry.
He works somewhere and keeps one foot in the bucket of the old team.
He is one of those described by the late John Gregory Dunne as "the
main-chancers who work for politicians more than the politicians
themselves."
When Dean spoke of bin Laden, here came Lockhart, pushing in front of
a microphone to bleat:
"It's the unplanned, offhand comments that often seem to play a
critical role. You've got to be able to become a master of the game,
not someone who just rails against the game."
Here is a grubby press agent, a flack, who described a thought about a
fair trial as a flip comment.
The newspapers and television let him get away with it.
These are open attacks on basic American rights.
And in order to protect yourself from terrorism by politicians, it
seems time to pay attention to things like the American system of
justice.
We did pretty good with it.
I'd hate to try it without it.
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Jimmy Breslin's not one to mince his words. Truth and his pen are
synonymous.
Harry
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they
thought it was hell."
Harry S Truman
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| User: "Roedy Green" |
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| Title: Re: We Got Him! sez Georgie. Wait a minute.....so what. |
03 Jan 2004 01:52:59 PM |
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 18:12:04 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote or quoted :
Howard Dean then said that maybe he was old-fashioned but he didn't
think you could judge or punish Osama bin Laden until you had a trial
and found him guilty.
I think this is especially true because Bush has ALREADY been caught
trying to frame bin Laden with the phony confession video tape.
There are suspicious links between the administration and the 9-11
highjackers. Some light may be shed in a trial. If bin Laden is
quietly murdered, history may never know.
--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.
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