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Category: Legal

  • Sunni dogs and Shiite cats living together, the story nobody is talking about.

    What if I told you that the Shiite theocracy in Iran had been found by a federal court to be legally responsible for training Sunni al Qaeda to carry out attacks against the United States as far back as at least 1998, at least? What if I told you this had happened over a month ago. You’d probably say, “Hey man, that’s a big deal, we’ve been told for the past decade that Iran can’t be working with al Qaeda, they hate each other. Besides, the media would be all over that.” Right?

    Drum roll please…

    According to Thomas Joscelyn at The Long War Journal this is exactly what happened. According to the decision handed down by D.C. District Court Judge John D. Bates the Iranian regime has been using al Qaeda as a tool to attack US interests around the world and gave them the training they needed to attack our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. To quote from the ruling:

    Iran had been the preeminent state sponsor of terrorism against United States interests for decades. Throughout the 1990s – at least – Iran regarded al Qaeda as a useful tool to destabilize U.S. interests. As discussed in detail below, the government of Iran aided, abetted and conspired with Hezbollah, Osama bin Laden, and al Qaeda to launch large-scale bombing attacks against the United States by utilizing the sophisticated delivery mechanism of powerful suicide truck bombs. Hezbollah, a terrorist organization based principally in Lebanon, had utilized this type of bomb in the devastating 1983 attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. Prior to their meetings with Iranian officials and agents, Bin Laden and al Qaeda did not possess the technical expertise required to carry out the embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. The Iranian defendants, through Hezbollah, provided explosives training to Bin Laden and al Qaeda and rendered direct assistance to al Qaeda operatives. Hence, for the reasons discussed below the Iranian defendants provided material aid and support to al Qaeda for the 1998 embassy bombings and are liable for damages suffered by the plaintiffs.

    The only notice this got the media is a brief editorial by Hoover Fellow Marc Thiessen in the Washington Post.

    It’s no doubt worth noting that both Judge Bates and Mr. Thiessen are connected to former President George W. Bush. Bates was appointed by Bush and Thiessen worked in the WH as a speechwriter. Both have proved to be a real fly in the ointment of the left over the past ten years. I can’t help but think the media blackout of what is, quite frankly, a historical ruling is interconnected.

    UPDATE:

    For those interested the entire opinion can be found here.

  • Holder ignores Indiana election fraud

    I’m sure you’ve all read about the petitions to put Obama on the 2008 primary ballot in Indiana that were found to be packed with phony signatures, including “Adolph Hitler” and “Mickey Mouse”. Well, it seems that the state can’t proceed with a legal remedy until the US Attorney general weighs in on the issue, and he’s pretty much ignoring pleas for his help according to the link from Old Trooper from Fox News;

    A criminal investigation is now underway by St. Joseph County Prosecuting Attorney Mike Dvorak into allegations that numerous signatures and names on Democratic Party petitions that put then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the primary ballot were forged.

    Voters have told Fox News that their signatures and personal information were fraudulent, and that they never signed the petitions that were certified by the St. Joseph County Voter Registration Board.

    U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana David A. Capp has previously declined to investigate the allegations, citing a lack of federal jurisdiction.

    I guess the fact that the malfeasance was used to defraud the American public in national elections isn’t federal jurisdiction? I feel like my civil rights have been violated, don’t you?

  • Police use drones to find cattle rustlers

    Old Trooper sends us a link to an article about some North Dakota police who got an assist from the Air Force’s drones to locate some cattle rustlers.

    As the unmanned aircraft circled 2 miles overhead the next morning, sophisticated sensors under the nose helped pinpoint the three suspects and showed they were unarmed. Police rushed in and made the first known arrests of U.S. citizens with help from a Predator, the spy drone that has helped revolutionize modern warfare.

    But that was just the start. Local police say they have used two unarmed Predators based at Grand Forks Air Force Base to fly at least two dozen surveillance flights since June. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have used Predators for other domestic investigations, officials said.

    This ought to fire up the conspiracy theorists. They were already walking around with twisted knickers over black helicopters, now drones. I’m not all that worried about it. If they catch me outside on “Naked Wednesdays” that’s their problem.

    TSO adds; I just hope it doesn’t crash in Detroit, because we will never get it back.

  • Let him rot

    Old Trooper sends us a Fox News link which tells the story of John Hinckley, the man who shot President Reagan and the reason we’re harassed and pestered by the Brady Center, wants to get out of the mental hospital and his doctors agree;

    Hospital officials want Hinckley to be allowed extended visits outside the mental facility — and eventually be released to live with or near his mother in Williamsburg, Va.

    Court filings from St. Elizabeth’s hospital are private, but Hinckley’s doctors and his attorney have publicly pushed many times for more freedom for the failed assassin.

    Well, it seems that when he was out on one of his recent releases, he was doing a little ego stroking;

    Prosecutors who want to ensure that John Hinckley Jr., is not released from a mental hospital told the court that Hinckley is deceptive and unstable. They said Secret Service agents who tracked Hinckley during a visit to his mom’s home followed Hinckley when he was supposed to be seeing a movie. Instead, he went to a bookstore across from the theater.

    The book he was interested in happened to be a book about people who have assassinated Presidents. Of course, you remember that the reason he shot President Reagan was because he had a thing for Jodie Foster in her role as a young prostitute in the DeNiro movie “Taxi Driver”.

    So let’s say he gets out and decides that Taylor Swift is singing to him? Who’ll be his next victim to get her attention?

    This is the kind of shit that makes me tolerate the death penalty. I think it’s wrong for the government to sentence a citizen to death, but doctors and lawyers can’t get it through their heads that some people need to be locked up permanently away from society for the safety of society.

    Hinckley shouldn’t be out and around among us – he got lucky being locked up in a hospital and even luckier with his visits to his mother and he takes advantage of our good nature. they should stake him out the woods somewhere like the animal he is.

  • Crybaby sues because he lost election

    In a nation chocked full of crybabies, in a political party of largely crybabies, how do you manage to stand out as a the biggest crybaby in history? Well, you sue because you lost an election because of your voting record which adhered slavishly to the party line, like crybaby Ohio’s Steve Driehaus.

    It seems, according to US News, that the Susan B. Anthony List pro-life group campaigned against Driehaus because of his pro-abortion voting record, so Driehaus, using th president’s executive order, written to give cover to Democrats who voted for his healthcare regorm plan, to call Susan B. Anthony List’s attacks “lies”.

    And you’d think that a judge with half a brain would toss out the case, right? Well, not Obama appointee U.S. District Court judge Timothy S. Black who allowed Driehaus to go forward in an attempt to enforce the Lawyers’ Employment Act.

    What is equally curious, however, is why Judge Black has allowed the case to move forward and why he did not recuse himself from it since, as Barbara Hollingsworth reported Friday in The Washington Examiner, he apparently is the former president and director of the Planned Parenthood Association of Cincinnati. As seeming conflicts of interest go this one is a real humdinger.

    And as TSO says, they say the Stolen valor Act has a chilling effect on political speech, but they allow this crybaby shit go forward.

    Thanks to ROS and Old Trooper for the link.

  • Hippies threaten to hold courts hostage (fixed the link)

    The lawyers for the more than 800 hippies who’ve been arrested in the “Occupy Wall Street” theaterics have threatened to clog the New York City courts if charges aren’t dropped immediately, according to the New York Post;

    “I’d like to suggest to the DA’s office the appropriate way to deal with these cases is outright dismissal,” said defense lawyer Martin Stolar.

    “The leverage is, we take them all to trial.”

    Stolar and other members of the civil rights-focused National Lawyers Guild plan to meet today with prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.’s office to lay out their position.

    Oh, good, the National Lawyers Guild…that’s the same organization that opposed US entry into World War II against the Nazis…until Germany invaded their beloved Joe Stalin’s Soviet Union. new york should try each and every one of the filthy beasts if they ever want this shit to stop. how many times have DC courts let Adam Kokesh and Dan Choi free to repeat their sociopath behavior?

    More recently, they’ve been the support network of james M. branum who gets his military clients tossed in jail for minor offenses…and need I remind you that he was also that Abdo dude’s lawyer, until Abdo was arrested for attempting to bomb a restaurant in Fort Hood.

    It’s their duty to the rule of law to prosecute these criminals to the fullest extent of the law, but expediency will win out. Like everything else today, it’ll be up to regular people, the REAL 99% to put an end to this childish horseshit. Just like we have to track down and shame the military phonies because the FBI and the courts won’t fulfill their sworn duties.

    The Mayor of New York is tougher on trans-fats and salt than he is on criminals in his city.

    Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.

  • Supehero on trial

    Where else but the West Coast would a guy who fights crime on his city streets be facing charges for breaking up a fight using minimum force in front of a bar;

    Of course, the liberals say “What if everyone starts doing this?” Everyone should be doing this. Are we not our brothers’ keepers? Dont we have a responsibility for keeping our own peace? Like someone wrote the other day on another post, when seconds count, the police are minutes away.

    Pheonix Jones didn’t inject himself into the situation without thinking it through, and he didn’t apply excessive force. The authorities should drop charges against him. Apparently, that’s what has happened. I’m shocked…I figured they’d want to make an example of him.

  • Obama wanted to intervene in Davis execution

    According to the ReddingNewsReview, the Obama Administration tried to intervene in the Troy Davis execution;

    Obama’s White House spent “three days” looking at how it could legally get involved in the case on a federal level, one source said. The Obama administration even called the state of Georgia about getting involved and were told “No”. (Updated on Sept. 27 at 3 p.m. ET – The source said the president never called and was only concerned about an injustice, as he would do for any American).

    So, I’m thinking that no they didn’t, they’re only saying they did now to appeal to their base (ignorant hippies and their other useful idiots). The White House has no jurisdiction over state cases, they knew they couldn’t influence anything, but it makes them look good in the eyes of their constituency to say they did. And fuck the law and order voters.