March 8, 2010

Liz Cheney thinks Justice Department lawyers who defended terrorists in court should be called the “Al Qaeda 7”, saying directly that what they did was un-American and even terrorist in principle and scope. She used the “Keep America Safe” website to further her un-American principles and generate support.

However, what she did was to clarify her own terrorist tendencies which are to repudiate the principles of American democracy delineated in the Constitution with its Bill of Rights.

She wants to form a lynch mob that wants no trials or due process for anyone suspected of terrorism. Summary execution would probably be fine with her. She does not understand that everyone accused of a crime deserves a vigorous defense and are presumed innocent.

Our history supports the concept of due process even under extreme circumstances. It started with John Adams in 1770 who defended some British soldiers accused of killing five civilians during the Boston Massacre. No one would represent them until Adams did. Of the eight charged, six were acquitted and the remaining two were convicted of manslaughter and not murder as originally charged.

He knew all of the accused needed fair trials which were impossible without adequate legal counsel. Adam's actions were noble and democratic.

Attorneys who defend those charged with terrorism are not themselves terrorists as Liz Cheney implies. And American due process is not a terrorist tool as she thinks.

Liz Cheney seems to be a terrorist tool.

When she attacks the Department of Justice attorneys she attacks American principles and rule of law like terrorists do. Except Liz Cheney wants to do her terrorist work from within our democracy using the cover of patriotism.

Her actions are woefully shameful and un-American. A true patriot would support American principles of law and not disparage them like a Muslim terrorist.

If one day she or her father were charged with a crime, they would expect and deserve legal counsel, something she would deny others.

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Reference about the Boston Massacre 1770 trials: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTRIALS/bostonmassacre/bostonmassacre.html