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Murder by Lawfare - How Liberal Lawsuits are Taking American
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Posted: 14 Dec 2009 10:39 PM PST

The thirteen US soldiers murdered at Fort Hood were killed by
the bullets fired by Malik Nidal Hassan, but there were those who helped
Nassan fire his bullets, who did everything but hold his gun and pull the
trigger for him. The initial FBI review has found that the Justice
Department guidelines for opening a criminal investigation were
too high, in turn investigators have said that it now requires
a very high standard of evidence in order to convict a terrorist
plotter.

Pursuing charges before all the evidence is in hand can
backfire – suspects have sued authorities before, claiming they were
falsely imprisoned victims of witch hunts... Five Muslim immigrants were
convicted last year of conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in
New Jersey, but they were acquitted of attempted murder after
prosecutors acknowledged they were probably months away from
acting.
...

In January 2006, agents watched as a young man
suspected of links to terrorists walked out of an Atlanta Home Depot
with materials that could be used to make a bomb.

They knew Syed
Haris Ahmed had researched bombmaking techniques online and shaved his
head, as some jihadis have done before an attack.

However, they
decided to wait to arrest him and keep building a stronger case – and
risk a potential terror attack.

Not being able to stop a terrorist before he strikes. Not
being able to remove Muslims who are engaging in threatening behavior on a
plane. Not able to take action against a terrorist plot for fear that the
terrorists will be allowed to walk free. That is what the domestic version
of the War on Terror looks like today.

Those are the wages of Lawfare, the legal campaign on behalf of
terrorists waged by well known liberal legal advocacy groups such as
the ACLU, and the much wider base of liberal organizations and newspapers
who lobbied on behalf of captured terrorists and republished every single
one of their claims of torture... to the extent that the Al Queda manual
made it a default for captured terrorists to cry abuse once on
trial.

Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's bodyguard and driver,
who was captured together with Al Queda operatives, became a cause celebre
for liberals and liberal groups from Amnesty International to People for
the American Way to the American Jewish Committee to George Clooney who
was interested in making a movie about him and starring as his lawyer.
They turned Salim Hamdan into a martyr and breathlessly repeated every
single one of his statements. And they won. They won with Hamdan vs.
Rumsfeld. And they won again at trial. Hamdan was freed a few months after
sentencing to return to Yemen.

The liberal establishment had fought
its hardest for Osama bin Laden's bodyguard... and they won. America lost.
That wasn't the only time they won. From day one every terrorist in Gitmo,
every terrorist plotter seized on American soil plotting to murder
Americans had the liberal establishment in their corner and fighting on
their behalf. From trial lawyers queuing up to defend them to the
editorial pages of every liberal newspaper in America clamoring that they
had been victimized, that the charges against them were worthless and that
America had besmirched itself by not bowing to the wishes of the
aforementioned trial lawyers. And they won.

From Abu Ghraib to
Gitmo, from Hamdan to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, they won. They successfully
smeared US soldiers and interrogators and CIA agents as monsters,
torturers and kidnappers. They successfully portrayed Al Queda terrorists
as sensitive victims and martyrs of a latter day Gulag. The same press
that wouldn't report on any of Castro's atrocities a few miles south of
Guantanamo Bay if you put a gun to their heads, put on their novelist hats
and transformed butchers into loving fathers, and dedicated fanatics into
misunderstood patriots. And they won.

From the first when the United States decided to try captured
terrorists before military tribunals, passed the Patriot Act and
asked public employees to send in tips if they suspected someone of
terrorist activity, American liberals rose up with a storm of indignation
as if Washington D.C. had been reborn as the capital of Nazi Germany. And
they kept it up for eight years, fighting their hardest to see that
America lost and the terrorists won. And they got their wish. Any policy
taken to stop terrorism, instantly earned their contempt. Any surrender to
terrorism, instantly earned their support.

And today they're still
at it again, suing civilian companies who transported captured terrorists
and inciting Muslims to act out on flights and sue airlines if any action
is taken against them. And their aggressive lawfare unsurprisingly comes
at a high cost in American lives. The 13 dead at Fort Hood were murdered
as much by the liberal lawfare of the ACLU and the New York Times, as by
Nidal Malik Hassan, the Jihadist Major whose career of abusing soldiers
and preaching terrorism, they helped spawn.

And the full and
complete toll of those killed is only coming, as FBI agents are handcuffed
when it comes to investigating Muslim terrorists, forced to hold back and
then hold back some more before bringing the case to Federal court,
knowing that liberal trial lawyers and Clinton and Carter appointed judges
are just champing at the bit to put another terrorist back on the
streets.

Sometimes the FBI can stop a terrorist in that golden
moment when he has all he needs to carry out his attack and is ready to
go-- and just before he kills. And if they can't, then blood splashes and
bodies pile up, courtesy of the liberal lawfare being waged against
America by terrorism's Madison Avenue accomplices.

And once law
enforcement has folded in the face of terror, targeting private companies
ensures that the path of the next wave of terrorists will be clear. Suing
airlines helped insure that airline companies would turn the other cheek
no matter what Muslim passengers do, as the better choice than having
to pay out on discrimination lawsuits accompanied by the negative
publicity that comes with being charged with Islamophobia. From the
airline's perspective, if the Muslims turn out to actually be terrorists,
their insurance and government bailouts will cover it, and no one will be
hurt but the passengers. If they don't turn out to be terrorists, then
again no one will be traumatized but the passengers.

Again liberal
lawfare wins and Americans lose, both their liberty and their lives, as
the implacable logic of political correctness demands universal measures
that deny freedom in general, without being selective enough to actually
stop Islamic terrorists. And this fits the agenda of turning the War on
Terror against ordinary Americans, while immunizing Muslims as much as
possible, thereby turning ordinary Americans against the War on Terror,
and handing the terrorists yet another victory.

By planting a stick
in the wheels of American national defense at every turn, it becomes an
increasingly impossible task to protect America against terrorism, whether
by toughening the Rules of Engagement on the battlefield, leaving US
troops naked in the field, or by insuring that fear of lawsuits and tough
standards will turn the arrest of a terrorist into a race against time, no
matter how much advance warning there may be.

If the liberal organizations responsible
for this do not actually want terrorists to win, then they have done a
perfect facsimile of every course of action that would have been taken
anyway by those who actually want the terrorists to win. The distinction
then is only one of motivation, between deliberate treason and ideological
blindness so thick that its practical consequences are indistinguishable
from treason.

When prominent terrorist lawyer Lynn Stewart passed
along covert messages to Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, ringleader of the
original World Trade Center bombers, from his terrorist followers in Egypt
regarding their Egyptian campaign; did she cross a line? If she did, most
of the usual suspect organizations who appealed for clemency on her behalf
did not seem to think so. And in truth the only difference between what
Lynn Stewart did and what her colleagues do day in and day out, is that
she broke the letter of the law by helping a terrorist kingpin, while her
colleagues help terrorists day in and day out without breaking the letter
of the law.

The letter of the law is where liberal lawfare lives,
the thick legal line that blindfolds law enforcement and binds the hands
of those who would stop the terrorists... for the benefit of the
terrorists themselves. The thirteen dead at Ft. Hood are only the latest
casualties of liberal lawfare, and they will not be the last.