Mukasey: Rep. Moran Has ‘Lost Touch With Reality’ And Should ‘Get Professional Help’ From Major Nidal Hasan
Mukasey: Rep. Moran Has ‘Lost Touch With Reality’ And Should ‘Get Professional Help’ From Major Nidal Hasan
Last week, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) came out in strong support of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute the five 9/11 defendants in U.S. federal court and sharply criticized Republicans who were attacking the decision. “They will seize on any opportunity to [demagogue], and that means they’ll even take a stand that’s un-American. It’s un-American to hold anyone indefinitely without trial. It’s against our principles as a nation.”
Former Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey is one of the Republicans who has been speaking out against Holder. Last week at a Federalist Society conference, Mukasey said that holding the trial in Manhattan increased the risk of a terrorist attack on the city.
In an interview with Washington Times radio this morning, the hosts asked Mukasey about Moran’s comments. Mukasey responded by suggesting that the congressman “get professional help” from Maj. Nidal Hasan:
Q: Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia says anybody that questions KSM coming to New York City for a civilian trial — that they’re un-American. What is your reaction to that?
MUKASEY: I think he’s lost touch with reality. He ought to get professional help, perhaps from Maj. Nidal.
The segment then ends with the hosts laughing over Mukasey’s “joke.” Listen here:
Nidal, of course, is the Army psychiatrist suspected of going on a brutal rampage at Fort Hood and killing 13 people.
Asked for a response to Mukasey’s comments, Moran’s spokesperson Emily Blout said, “Leading conservative activists and scholars agree with Mr. Moran’s position, which is based on this nation’s long history of upholding its most fundamental values- even in the face of horrific crimes.”
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“Former Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey is one of the Republicans who has been speaking out against Holder.”
and after the stunning job he did, mukasey needs to shut the hell up.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:02 pmIs he twelve years old?
November 17th, 2009 at 4:02 pm“professional help, perhaps from Maj. Nidal.”
Who the hell is this guy to say such a thing?
No seriously that’s a jr. high style insult.
For his next act what is he going to do make fun of Moran’s mother?
November 17th, 2009 at 4:05 pmIt’s offical then – the neoCons consider the Constitution politically incorrect.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:05 pmWhat a stupid little PUTZ.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:05 pmMukasey is just another Bush TRAITOR.
As Bill Maher stated: “I don’t let TRAITORS question MY patriotism”.
Exactly. FU, Mukasey.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:05 pm“This is political correctness run amok.” Shaggydog (Retriever-AZ)
No, you mealymouthed echo, this is AMERICA!
We stand by our Constitution, not your political bedwetting.
If you’re too scared to uphold our Nation’s rules of Law, resign and go cower in a corner.
Or better yet, go fight the Taliban & just STFU.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:05 pmShadegg’s been watching too much TV in all that time he spends not earning his paycheck for representing the citizens of AZ.
R’s are sissies.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pmReal Classy Mukasey! Get ‘Profressional help from Maj. Nidal’. WTF is wrong with these people? Have they gone insane? There was no reason to say such a thing. God Damn. I said it before and I’ll say it again. How low can these Repugs go?….
November 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pmI swear to God – I hate these people!! Who the hell needs friggin’ Al Qaeda when we have REPUBLIKKKANS???
November 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pmThose who lack faith in the due process requirements outlined in the constitution should not hold a license to practice, let alone the privelege of serving as attorney general.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:08 pmI can’t believe they frigging laughed!! Why isn’t MSM reporting this??? This man is a former AG for crying out loud. This is unacceptable. A disgrace.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:08 pmBoy, oh, boy…whenever I see Little Miss Sunshine Mukasey in the news, it always seems to be BAD. This revolting neocon was every bit as horrible as Abu Gonzo, but he flew under the radar, didn’t he?
I won’t ever forget who we have to thank for this asshat of an un-American traitor: Charles Schumer and the Little Miss Sunshine of California, Dianne Feinstein.
Let’s dump them BOTH.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:08 pmIf Mukasey had done his job, perhaps these criminals being held at GITMO would have been tried sooner and saved american taxpayers billions. But then Mukasey was a member of the team FEAR and, had he done his job, that fear would have dissipated the the people could have healed a lot sooner. Why are we even giving headline articles to this low life???
November 17th, 2009 at 4:09 pmWhen the Republicans become such cowards?
November 17th, 2009 at 4:09 pmC’mon gang. Don’t ya know that the Constitution is just “a god dammed piece of paper!”?
Sarcasm off.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:09 pmfor a former judge that has hear terrorist cases in NTC he sure is a jerk.
and what happen to that so call tuff on justice you all so to be for so long. you all are a bunch of wimps.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:11 pmThe Moderate Squad says:
“It’s offical then – the neoCons consider the Constitution politically incorrect.”
Not only that, Mod, but as Frank Zappa’s Central Scrutinizer also said, the Constitution is just a bit too…inconvenient.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:11 pmfletc3her says:
When the Republicans become such cowards?
they always have been Cowards!!!!!!!!!!
November 17th, 2009 at 4:11 pmDaddy-O says:
yes good old Zappa
the white zone is for loading only. and i believe joe got sended to the CYO
November 17th, 2009 at 4:13 pmI guess the only ones who will bring this up is Keith or Rachel. The rest of the MSM doesn’t have the balls. Remeber when Chris Matthews talked about abortion for days after the ‘Stupak’ amendment? Well he didn’t bring up the fact the RNC had abortion coverage for 18 friggin YEARS!
November 17th, 2009 at 4:13 pmThat’s fracking astounding. The cons, neo-cons, and Republipimps want to dump 2+ centuries of Constitutional law, legal precedent and treaty because following it would be “political correctness”? They haven’t just gone in the deep end without their water wings, they’ve gone right over the edge.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:16 pmMukasey is another guy who’s been gonged and needs to exit, stage left.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:18 pmWhy do Republicans hate America and its rule of law? I am aghast that Shadegg calls the rule of law “political correctness.” America was also attacked at Pearl Harbor, and did not abandon its rule of law and willingness to prosecute war criminals in court after World War II. Sept. 11, 2001 was awful, but did not result in nearly as many American deaths as World War II. To abandon American principles now is just too, too much, and similarly, Republicans doth protest too much. Perhaps in truth they are fearful that facts that show Bush-Cheney and other members of the GOP in an unfavorable or even criminal light will come out. I say, let the sun shine in on these court proceedings!
November 17th, 2009 at 4:18 pmWhat is his point EXACTLY? That we should IGNORE the Constitution because he is AFRAID to follow it? The people here saying guys like this are cowards are 100% correct
November 17th, 2009 at 4:19 pm“Last week at a Federalist Society conference,…”
nuff said.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:19 pmIt isn’t political correctness run amok. It’s scaremongoring and fearmongoring run amok. I for one have had enough of it.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pmJust remember, if the accused terrorists are tried, that means it could have been done before – but Georgie couldn’t be bothered with little details like habeus.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pmTerrorists have won. The republic party wets themselves in fear.
Mukasey may be worse than Alberto.
Alberto could CLAIM ignorance, Mukasey IS ignorant & afraid of shadows.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pm“Well, Mayor, how are you going to feel when it’s your daughter that’s kidnapped at school by a terrorist? How are you going to feel when it’s some clerk — some innocent clerk of the court — whose daughter or son is kidnapped? Or the jailer’s little brother or little sister?
What a ridiculous cowardly pack of sniveling curs the GOP is.
They sound like a bunch of sissies quaking in fear.
What they lack is backbone and courage.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pmMuckky, please revert back to your original position with your nose inserted deeply inside Cheney’s rectal cavity.
And try to talk from that position.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:23 pmI wouldn’t be suprised if it was one of former Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey’s ancestors who tortured Jesus of Nazareth, nailed Him to the cross, and then make jokes about it.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:23 pmRudy Girlianni is on this train of fear, as well.
He was a big talker while in office, but now he’s just a scared little cross-dresser, afraid his skirt will get muddy while crossing the political divide.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pmWhy do they fear the Constitution?
November 17th, 2009 at 4:24 pmThe Federalist Society is just a bunch of bedwetting cowards. Don’t like it Mukasey or Shadegg? Then step aside and let the adults try their hand. The ones that believe in the US Constitution that gives you the same right to open your ill-informed hateful pieholes.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:25 pmCorrect me if I’m wrong, but why, exactly, is it so incredibly dangerous to try Guantanamo detainees in the United States?
I seem to recall that some of the perpetrators of the 1993 WTC attack were tried in the USA (those who didn’t flee the country), and they were convicted and are now serving the rest of their lives in prison here in this country. It’s not even a secret where they are (the supermax prison in Colorado). We’ve managed to do all this without abnormal fear of terrorist attacks on either their trial venue or their place of incarceration.
Are these people more scary than — say, Manson family members? The Unabomber? Timothy McVeigh? Mafia dons? Drug kingpins?
Enough of the political posturing — especially by people who are irrelevant. We have a constitution. Let’s use it. And let’s show the world that we’re willing to live by our own rules.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:26 pm“This is political correctness run amok.”
November 17th, 2009 at 4:26 pmand i am sure mukasey was leading the charge to call the holocaust museum shooter what he is,
“a white, right wing CHRISTIAN terrorist”. right? right?
The Repugs ARE afraid. But I don’t think it has anything to do with the terrorists being tried in NY. They are afraid something will come out or these guys will be successfully prosecuted WITH the full extent of the Law. These guys are pissing in fear because of all the things THEY let Georgie get away with. How many prisoners escape from a Maximum Security Prison?
November 17th, 2009 at 4:27 pmRepublican Party Platform:
Rule of Law – Optional.
Constitution – Optional.
Equal Rights – Optional.
Gay Marriage – Forbidden
Abortion – Forbidden.
State-sponsored neo-christianity – Mandatory
November 17th, 2009 at 4:29 pmThe fascisterist society
November 17th, 2009 at 4:29 pm“Bozo The Neoclown says:
“This is political correctness run amok.”
and i am sure mukasey was leading the charge to call the holocaust museum shooter what he is,
“a white, right wing CHRISTIAN terrorist”. right? right?”
Actually the holocaust museum shooter was an atheist.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:30 pmSo now that he’s out of power, he’s letting his a$$holeness show through completely and transparently.
Now why did Schumer and Feinstein vote to confirm him??? Someone oughtta ask them.
Cheers,
November 17th, 2009 at 4:33 pmHe must have learned the law from Alberto.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:36 pmI NEVER thought anybody would less competant and repulsive then Gonzo.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:37 pmI bet he doesnt care about the constitution either
November 17th, 2009 at 4:38 pmThinking the big reason they dont want a trail is that in a court of law which they know well facts and things they dont want us to know will be put on displace for all to see.
and the whole party has blood on there hands.
Mistakes may get the Terrorist off, and its a simple fact that if they do get off on a technicality it will be cause of them. not following our rules of law.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:45 pmMukasey is little more than a disgraced, chimp apologist. Why anyone would take him seriously after his stint as “the president’s lawyer” is a mystery.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:45 pmI doubt the feds would be making a case if there were a chance KSM could get off on a technicality. What they fear, I think, is the public seeing that this is just a man, and our law is sufficient to deal with him. The whole GWOT with its torture and suspension of civil rights was justified by an hysterical reaction. Rather than face the fact that our air defense system failed, and focus on our shortcomings, terrorists were made out to be superhuman beings that could defeat NORAD with boxcutters for mystical reasons.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:53 pmDo you have a citation for that, cd? Very few atheists are notorious Jew haters.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:53 pmWhy can’t these guys fade into the sunset. Haven’t they done enough damage? Look at Cheney. Getting awards from his Neo-con friends like Frank Gaffney while bashing the Pres. Gonzo looking for a job. Connie and Hadley(I think) opening a firm, and of course the ‘Queen of Doom’ Liz Chaney jockying herself as a political guru. I makes me sick, really.
November 17th, 2009 at 4:56 pmBack on topic:
The abject, irrational, terror of the Reichwhiners continues to be alarming. Frightened cowards do stupid things like shooting up crowds.
The GOoPers like to thank God for their safety. I say “thank the ATF and some rational laws” that it’s very, very, difficult to obtain high explosives or their constituents in this country. If it were as difficult to buy advanced firearms as it is to buy anhydrous ammonia? It just might be a safer place.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:00 pmP.D. says:
‘Queen of Doom’ Liz Chaney jockying herself as a political guru. I makes me sick, really.
yes the dickliz chaney
November 17th, 2009 at 5:01 pmBreaking.. Shadegg apologized
November 17th, 2009 at 5:01 pmMiss Molly says..
I seem to recall that some of the perpetrators of the 1993 WTC attack were tried in the USA..
JUDGE Mukasey WAS the Judge in the 1996 trial for the Blind Shiek.
“Although Judge Mukasey’s handling of the trial received praise from the appeals court and from some — but hardly all — of the lawyers involved, his writings and public remarks show that the case left him shaken and deeply skeptical about the ability of civilian courts to try people accused of terrorism without compromising national security.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/20/washington/20trial.html
What Do Terrorists WANT??? They Want to TERRORIZE. Seems to be working for Mukasey and the Republican Party.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:04 pmChris(Tweety)Matthews is going to have Stupak on tonight. Chris’s obsession over abortion is getting on my nerves. He never talked about the RNC covering abortions for 18 friggin years.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:04 pmMukasey has no business claiming anyone else is detached from reality.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:05 pmWhat is with the right and their sense of humor? Their “jokes” always seem to involve the thought of violence against critics and political opponents
November 17th, 2009 at 5:06 pm“I saw the Mayor of New York said today, ‘We’re tough. We can do it,’” said Shadegg. “Well, Mayor, how are you going to feel when it’s your daughter that’s kidnapped at school by a terrorist? How are you going to feel when it’s some clerk — some innocent clerk of the court — whose daughter or son is kidnapped? Or the jailer’s little brother or little sister? This is political correctness run amok.”
That’s easy. All you need to do is call in Jack Bauer to help stop the evil terr’ists.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:06 pmP.D. says:
… and of course the ‘Queen of Doom’ Liz Chaney jockying herself as a political guru. I makes me sick, really.
What scares me is the fact that, in order to get any real support from the GOP, she would have to try and match Bible Spice’s moronic cuteness or Carrie Prejean’s proclivity to expose herself. At the least she would have to hire Orly Taitz as a beautician. Frankly, I don’t even think the weird lenses the GOoPers wear could filter that stuff out.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:09 pmRepublicans are not politicians anymore
November 17th, 2009 at 5:11 pmSomeone has a bad case of VDT.
Stinky…
November 17th, 2009 at 5:15 pmMukasey tries to make a political point by making a joke about the Fort Hood tragedy. His point must be extremely weak to have to resort to comments that are so insensitive, disrespectful, mean-spirited, revolting, juvenile, hostile, vile, irresponsible, repugnant, crass, profane, egregious, obnoxious, inflammatory, …..
November 17th, 2009 at 5:17 pmFear is all they’ve got: Be afraid of terrorists, be afraid of the president, be afraid of muslims, be afraid of brown people, be afraid of abstract political and social constructs (socialism, communism) be afraid of whatever we toss at you like raw meat.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:25 pmHeh. That beautician comment made me think of Oily Titz – and how she has taken over where Tammy Faye (may she rest in peace) left off…
Y I K E S !!!!
November 17th, 2009 at 5:25 pm“Very few atheists are notorious Jew haters”?
USSR.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:35 pmMukasey was a legal advisor to Ghouliani during the latter’s recent run for President. Of course I don’t know if that has anything to do with Mukasey now echoing Ghouliani’s criticism of the trials.
I’ve always wondered if the Dems who voted for I-Don’t-Know-That-Waterboarding-Is-Illegal Mukasey did so as a backroom deal with the Bush administration to avoid having Bush put Ted Olson forward as a nominee for the AG position.
Before President Bush named Michael Mukasey as his choice for attorney general Sept. 17 (2007), many pundits seemed convinced the nomination would go to former solicitor general Ted Olson. Why the sudden change?
In the days leading up to Bush’s announcement, Olson’s name sparked considerable backlash from Senate Democrats. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) promised to block the confirmation of a prospective candidate he labeled a partisan.
Much of the Democrats’ angst stemmed from Olson’s role in the 2000 Supreme Court case that decided the razor-thin election between Bush and Al Gore. Olson personally represented Bush during the ordeal, forever branding himself an unprincipled party loyalist in the eyes of Gore supporters
November 17th, 2009 at 5:35 pmSTFU Mukasey.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:40 pmYou were nothing more than a table tent marking where a real Attorney General of the United States would sit.
Anyone ever get the feeling Shadegg is trying to Steve King his was to GOP prominence?
November 17th, 2009 at 5:40 pmWay too predictable, cd. First of all, the USSR is long gone. Second, the “enforced atheism” of the USSR is overstated. And third, one can argue that the atheism attributed to the USSR was merely a substitution of the State for God.
Frankly, the communism promulgated by Stalin was as much a religion as it was a political system, with him as God. It’s basically the same system as any king or tyrant in history with a few fancy words provided by Karl Marx and Lenin.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:42 pmI don’t know if this has been mentioned already, but what’s to stop terrorists from kidnapping a politician’s children RIGHT NOW (or at any time in the recent past) in protest of the endless incarceration of “enemy combatants” at Gitmo? Nothing these cowards say can withstand any logical scrutiny–seriously.
They like to fancy themselves true patriots, but they are the ones who unfailingly lay waste to the bedrock principles on which this great country was founded. They truly are traitors to American ideals. Why are dems so scared to call them out on that? It’s baffling.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:43 pmLeftside Annie says:
“…where Tammy Faye (may she rest in peace) left off…”
The absolute funniest T-shirt I ever saw was a smeared but recognizable imprint of lips, mascara and blue eyeshadow, and underneath it read: I ran into Tammy Faye at the mall.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:44 pmI’m a New Yorker. I watched 1 WTC burning, saw 2 WTC explode and later collapse. With that in mind I say, let the wheels of justice turn. We are a civilized society. Our nation observes the rule of Law and will endure and prosper. When we act like frightened rats, then we are doomed indeed. We are stronger than our fears and better than the small, petty men who whine and cower in the shadows.
November 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pmBring KSM here to NYC. Let justice be done unto him and we, as a nation, will trimph by simply being Americans.
cd, what was a communist atheist doing hanging around with Freepers?
November 17th, 2009 at 5:51 pmshoeless,
Thanks for the reminder. I forgot to clearly ask what evidence has been provided that von Brun is an atheist.
What’s the evidence that von Brun is an atheist?
November 17th, 2009 at 5:55 pmThe Moderate Squad says:
It’s offical then – the neoCons consider the Constitution politically incorrect
now that it’s official let’s stop pretending the Republicans are a real political party.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:00 pmI Googgled it, and it is all over the wingnut blogs. I’m thinking the Freepers made it up to divert attention away from themselves.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:01 pmLet’s stop pretending that the Republicans are politicians and accept that they are a dangerous cult.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:03 pmBTW – Cheney was right on time for the noon show on the neo-con snake oil wagon. give the man a top hat and cane and let him testify. He doesn’t recall.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:06 pmAs the Attorney General, this nut thought he worked exclusively for the Republican Administration. He did not work for the American public that’s for damn sure. He has the credence of pathological liar!
November 17th, 2009 at 6:06 pmRepublicans are just so stupid it boggles the mind that so many of them infiltrated the political sysytem! how did that happen?!?!
November 17th, 2009 at 6:10 pm<blockquote>Republicans are just so stupid it boggles the mind that so many of them infiltrated the political sysytem! how did that happen?!?!
Their followers may be stupid, but they generally are not. They manipulate facts and reality to suit their goals–here, to attack the current administration, restore Repugs to power, and shield their own from any war crime investigations.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:39 pmAlthough this has not been said, I would suggest that the decision to prosecute the terrorists in New York was taken in consultation with the mayor and police chief of NYC. If Bloomberg objected to the trial, I believe Holder would have found an alternative venue. These conservatives who claim they are thinking about the security of NYC are grandstanding. It is common sense that the trials should not be politicized, but the Republicans are grasping at everything to continue their 24/7 Hate-Obama-thon. Appalling.
November 17th, 2009 at 6:39 pmQuestion: Hypothetically, if the criminal defendants in this prosecution are either acquitted (a long shot) or given anything less that life sentences because of their torture, who is to blame: BushCo for the illegal torturing or Obama for the insistence on Constitutional due process?
November 17th, 2009 at 6:45 pmCatsPJs
If that happens due to evidentiary problems because of torture then it would obviously be the Bush administrations fault for USING torture
November 17th, 2009 at 6:53 pm“shoeless says:
cd, what was a communist atheist doing hanging around with Freepers?”
Who said he was a Communist?
The Museum shooter was an athiest that doesn’t mean he was a Communist and since every bit of info I’ve seen says he was a reich/right winger I’m going to assume that’s true.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:00 pmEugeneDebs says:
CatsPJs
If that happens due to evidentiary problems because of torture then it would obviously be the Bush administrations fault for USING torture
If the evidence is barred it will be because of Bush. The evidentiary issues are dealt with before trial begins. Those matters will resolve whether the evidence is tainted by the torture. A federal judge will have hearings on the evidence issues but the rulings may not be disclosed since it is probable that a gag order for the parties will be in effect. These hearings will also dispose of the evidentiary issues regarding national security.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:08 pmAnd if you’re wondering what my source is a while back on CNN they interviewed a guy who lived with the museum shooter for a while and he quoted the shooter as having talked about how God didn’t exist.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:11 pmcd,
Again I have to ask what evidence is presented that the shooter was a atheist?
November 17th, 2009 at 7:13 pmAnd this comment is coming from a disasterous former Attorney General that BS his way in his nomination at the Senate, stall the US Attorney firing investigations, stall in presenting documents to the judge in the Ted Stevens case, protect Bush and Cheney in not having Cheney’s FBI interview released in the Plame case, and wouldn’t answer in the Senate hearing that waterboarding is torture? Yet, he has the nerve to claim that Rep. Moran need professional help?
Mukasey needs to put a plug in his mouth. His opinion about any aspect of the law against Holder’s decision in the 9/11 defendants doesn’t means squat.
November 17th, 2009 at 7:17 pmpete the evidence is right above your previous post.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:50 pmNo, cd, that’s not evidence. I haven’t been able to find that story on CNN.com. Evidence would be something more like him saying “I’m an atheist”.
I’ll grant you one thing, his writings seem to indicate that his madness had taken him past any recognizable religion. Or humanity for that matter. He may indeed have renounced God. But, the thing that remains clear is that he is a racist. A zealot. A worshiper of his own delusions and devoted to the destruction of one particular religion.
Even within the broad tent of atheism there’s a whole bunch that would leave him outside any reasonable definition.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:37 pmIt’s evidence same as the account of any other eye witness.
If you can find record or eye witness acount of him saying he’s anything other than an atheist I’d love to hear it.
Till then all the evidence points to his being an atheist.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:49 pmI’m not trying to he is, or is not, an atheist or anything else. I’ve read as much of his drivel as I care to. My point is that I haven’t seen anything where he, personally, makes any claims about his personal belief in a supreme being or otherwise. It’s obvious that he Believes in a twisted agenda of racial purity/superiority but the references to religion are ambiguous.
I suppose it’s possible that he merely conflated “Jews” with a race but, Judaism is a religion and not a race. So, logically, his hatred had some element of religious bigotry. Otherwise he would have written volumes about his hatred for other religions or even God. I can’t seem to find those in the record.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:54 pmPLC @ 62
PatrioticLiberalChristian says:
Mukasey tries to make a political point by making a joke about the Fort Hood tragedy. His point must be extremely weak to have to resort to comments that are so insensitive, disrespectful, mean-spirited, revolting, juvenile, hostile, vile, irresponsible, repugnant, crass, profane, egregious, obnoxious, inflammatory,
But, THEY scream “GAWD BLESS THE TROOPS,” right?
November 17th, 2009 at 11:27 pmZimzone says:
Rudy Girlianni is on this train of fear, as well.
Did he take that train back from Florida already? Damn!
November 17th, 2009 at 11:31 pm.
Because nothing says aiding and abetting war criminals like the former Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey.
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November 18th, 2009 at 12:38 am#83 CatsPJs,
That is exactly what I’ve been saying…
… The cowards are the people who TORTURE and then hide the evidence, fearful that should Justice be extracted, it falls upon themselves to defend their war crimes. And they refuse to do such a thing, so cowardice reigns.
Too bad the (R)ight leaning MSN is cowardly also. Hell, they’ve helped sell the concept that, “It’s not TORTURE when America does it,” AND that, “It’s not illegal IF you get someone else to do it for you“!
We have shrunk into a Nation of COWARDS!
We have shirked the responsibility of Justice!
We have excused every player in the game!
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November 18th, 2009 at 12:46 am.
IF AMERICA CAN NOT USE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TO BRING CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE THEN AMERICA IS BUT A SHADOW OF IT’S FORMER SELF.
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November 18th, 2009 at 12:50 ampete it’s not like there are rules regulating how to be a bigot.
Did you ever see gangs of New York?
Do you remeber how Bill the Butcher hated the Irish yet he once remarked of a follower “you’ll have to forgive him he was born Irish”?
That’s how weird bigotry can be.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:16 amMore and more, it is obvious that the AG from the Bush administration may be a big part of their failure to follow constitutional provisions in the treatment of POWs. The silly nomenclature of “enemy combatant” is simply a euphemism to perpetrate crimes against humanity and our constitution. Amazing that a legal education had not seemed ot help Mr. Mucasey to get this all straight and constitutional. So now when my grandson goes to war and if he gets picked up by some rogue nation, or if he is on some clandestine mission, I will not be able to expect my government to have any moral authority to settle the problem because of the way the entire Bush Administration ditched the Constitution.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:15 ammissmolly says:
Mukasey is another guy who’s been gonged and needs to exit, stage left.
That dooshnozzle needs to exit, stage right……
November 18th, 2009 at 2:14 pmPlease don’t insult me by putting Mukasey and Exit Stage Left in the same sentence :)~
re the former ag
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/11/hbc-90006103
do read to the end
November 19th, 2009 at 7:41 am