In recent news articles, as Leanne pointed out (I think the link she had was to Al Jazeera but mine is Arab News here), it’s been officially announced that Ramsey Clark is going to join the jet-setting and beautiful lawyer, Ghaddafi’s daughter (click here), Aisha al-Gaddafi, and the American lawyer Curtis Doebbler (click here) who is infamous for defending rejects based on International Law. I’m not sure if people know it, but Ramsey Clark was Saddam Hussein’s personal attorney and represented Iraq prior to the war.

To see an example of how he outrageously struggled to keep us out of Iraq (and save Saddam), here is a letter from Ramsey Clark urging the United Nations not to support the war in Iraq (click here) Shannon was saying that the anti-war movement was NOT TRYING TO SAVE SADDAM HUSSEIN. I think this is clear evidence that it was. If that’s not enough, in February of 2003, Ramsey Clark sent a letter to Kofi Annan saying the United States is guilty of war crimes (the ACLU is doing the same thing, take a look at Mike Whitney’s article here if I’m not mistaken, he’s also writing for Al Jazeera, the “voice of Al Qaeda see this).

The group at the forefront of the recent anti-war rallies, International A.N.S.W.E.R (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is in reality a front organization designed to further the radical agenda of several extremist movements from the political Left. Despite the media’s assertions to the contrary, the present incarnation of the peace movement, led by ANSWER, is anything but representative of mainstream America.

ANSWER’s steering committee reads like a “Who’s Who” of radical political organizations. The most influential member of ANSWER’s steering committee, Ramsey Clark’s pet project known as the International Action Center (IAC), is considered by many observers to be little more than a communist front organization for an obscure Stalinist organization known as the World Workers Party (WWP). (The FBI considers the WWP a terrorist organization. On May 10, 2001, FBI Director Louis Freeh stated that “Anarchists and extremist socialist groups — many of which, such as the Workers World Party, have an international presence and, at times, also represent a potential threat in the United States.” Imagine that; the mainstream media somehow missed the fact that the most ubiquitous organizer of “anti-war” protests is directed by a terrorist support group. Shouldn’t a question on this front be aimed directly at Ramsey Clark at one of his regular press conferences?)

Yet, the IAC is not the only member of ANSWER’s steering committee committed to extremist causes. The Korean Truth Commission and Pastors for Peace are staunch allies of Kim Jong Il and Fidel Castro, respectively, and both groups continue to support these murderous regimes’ violation of International law. In addition to its role as a front for the support of totalitarian/communist governments in North Korea and Cuba, members of ANSWER’s steering committee such as the Muslim Student Association and the Free Palestine Alliance continue to provide ideological, logistical and financial support for organizations devoted to the destruction of the state of Israel, including the terrorist group, Hamas. A comprehensive investigation of the members of ANSWER’s steering committee make it clear that the organization is in actuality one of Peace’s greatest enemies.

Criticism of Saddam Hussein is (not surprisingly) not aired at IAC/A.N.S.W.E.R.-controlled protest events. No mention is made of Saddam’s gassing of the Kurds, invasion of Kuwait, murder of an estimated 1 million (some estimates are as high as 3 million) of his own people, environmental terrorism, imprisonment, torture or execution of political prisoners.

The suffering of the Iraqi people is blamed solely on the United States, just as the suffering of Palestinians is blamed solely on Israel. When you see pictures on liberal websites of deformed suffering Iraqi children who then blame the United States for it, just remember that these deformed Iraqi children are a direct result of Saddam’s chemical assault on his own people.

IAC/A.N.S.W.E.R leaders have aligned themselves exclusively with pro-Arafat/PLO groups. The only Jewish people truly embraced as “brothers and sisters” are those who equally denounce Israel or deny Israel’s right to exist. A.N.S.W.E.R’s pro-Palestinian march in April was regarded by many, in fact, little more than a thinly disguised public display of anti-Semitism masquerading as a “pro-Palestinian” march. Frequent mention was made at the march of a “supposed holocaust,” and of a “genocide” in Jenin, despite the fact that New York Times reporters allowed into the area had already discredited such reports as fullobalogney.

Ramsey Clark himself has a long and dubious history of aiding and abetting the enemy.

It was Ramsey Clark who urged Lynne Stewart to become attorney to the “blind Sheik” Omar Abdel Kahman, who was later convicted as the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the planner behind the proposed bombings of New York City landmarks, including the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. In 1995, few people were paying attention. Today, the trial transcript reads like a 20,000-page prelude to Sept. 11: sleeper cells, secret funds, international jihad, connections to a group called Al Qaeda and a man named bin Laden.

Clark’s two previous choices, Center for Constitutional Rights attorneys and noted defenders of criminals and terrorists — including the Palestinian assassin of Meyer Kahane — William Kuntsler and Ron Kuby, had disqualified themselves from participation on the grounds of personal prejudice (Kuby said he couldn’t in good faith represent someone who wanted to see him and his family dead). Stewart is also well known for her representation of “revolutionaries” and murderers. She represented several cop-killers (whom she no doubt considered revolutionaries) and Sammy “the Bull,” Gravano a Mafioso (whom she no doubt considered just rebellious).

Stewart shares the Communist beliefs of the WWP and IAC and the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is anti-capitalist and believes the USA is an imperialistic nation, and that anti-capitalist violence is justified. In a 1995 New York Times interview she said, “I don’t believe in anarchistic violence, but in directed violence. That would be violence directed at the institutions which perpetuate capitalism, racism, and sexism, and at the people who are the appointed guardians of those institutions, and accompanied by popular support.” Obviously, Stewart’s worldview meshes seamlessly with that of Saddam Hussein, Yassir Arafat, the blind sheik and Osama Bin Laden. And with that of Deirdre Griswold Brian, Becker, Ramsey Clark and the Workers World Party.

Stewart and Clark’s legal defense of the blind Seik resulted in a conviction. They placed America on trial as a repressive, imperialist and terrorist state, and portrayed the Sheik as nothing more than an innocent holy man and political activist. It did not work.

I’m not sure people like Shannon realize it–but anyone who equates a religious Christian such as Falwell, for example with Osama bin Laden is taking the exact same approach to terrorism as the World Workers Party, International ANSWER, IAC, Ramsey Clark and Lynne Stewart. And these people are certainly not “patriots” or “moderate” liberals. This is the same exact argument Lynne Stewart was using to defend her blind sheik terrorist.

As an attorney, Clark has taken it upon himself to represent several clients primarily characterized by their intense hatred of Jews. In 1989, Clark represented Lyndon Larouche, who by the late 1970’s embraced far-right anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Despite Larouche’s documented history of anti-Semitism, Clark expressed ‘amazement’ at the personal ‘vilification’ directed at Larouche throughout the trial. Clark also represented PLO leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the elderly vacationer who was shot and thrown overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise-ship by renegade Palestinian terrorists in 1986. Another Clark client was Karl Linnas, an ex-Nazi concentration camp guard in Estonia (where he had overseen the murder of some 12,000 resistance fighters and Jews), who was being deported from the US to the USSR to face war crimes charges. Clark again lost the case but again went to bat for his client in the public arena, questioning the need to prosecute Nazis “forty years after some god-awful crime they’re alleged to have committed.”

Al Awda , a.k.a. The Palestine Right To Return Committee (PRRC) allies itself with International Answer and the International Action Center, Ramsey Clark’s outfits. Al Awda means “the Return” in Arabic and is a front for the PLO that advocates unconditionally that 5 million Palestinians be allowed to move inside Israel displacing the Jewish population and dismantling the Jewish state. The Texas chapter used to have a website extolling the glory of suicide bombers. The other groups just want the US out of Iraq to enable the comeback of Saddam Hussein. (Happily, that won’t happen because Saddam was captured and is now in custody.) Ramsey Clark was Saddam Hussein’s personal attorney and represented Iraq prior to the war. The PLO has always been the dictator Hussein’s closest ally in the Middle East.

The same journalists who will be more than happy to tell their readers that a group is related to, or receives funds from, say the NRA or the Christian Coalition or the dreaded Scaife Foundation, will never mention the relationship of a liberal group with communist organizations – even if such organizations are labeled terrorist by the FBI.

But Islamic fundamentalism isn’t black power, and the history that began on Sept. 11 will not be forgiving of people who pick the wrong side. These are just more examples of how the war on terror is being fought right here at home. Ramsey Clark and Lynne Stewart have not only stood on the ‘wrong side’, but they represent and root for the very people who struck us on 9/11.

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