Posted on The Patriot Update-By Ann-Marie Murrell-On May 21, 2011:
“Attorney General Eric Holder is definitely a fascinating man. In Part 1, I gave a little background into his life. Throughout his career under the Obama administration, Eric Holder and his Department of Justice have made some hugely controversial decisions. Maybe his early training at the home of the Frankfurt School, Columbia University contributed; I’m not sure.
Following are some highlights of the past two years with Holder as Attorney General.
Islam/Terrorism:
- Holder led voting to ban enhanced interrogations (specifically waterboarding). He did this against the advice of top-ranking military personnel and despite the fact that enhanced interrogations have helped locate and stop terrorists, including Osama bin Laden.
- Holder transferred 9/11 conspirators to the U.S. District Court to be tried in public instead of military tribunals. Holder did this against the advice of law enforcement, city and state officials as well as families of those killed in the 9/11 attacks. Holder believed the international terrorists deserved a “fair trial in New York”.
- Holder later changed his mind about trying the terrorists in public and transferred them back to the military tribunal system as originally planned…
- Holder refuses to declare Islam a threat. Appearing before the House Judiciary committee, the following dialogue took place:
Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith: “Are you uncomfortable attributing any of their (terrorists) actions to radical Islam?”
Holder: “No, no I don’t want to say anything negative about a religion…that’s not consistent with the teachings of it.”
Rep. Smith: “Ok, could it have been the case in one of these three (terrorism) instances…could one of these three individuals have been incited by radical Islam…”
Holder: “Well, I think potentially incited by an Islam that is inconsistent with the teachings (of Islam)…”
Rep. Smith: “It’s hard Mr. Attorney General, it’s hard to get an answer yes or no (from you)…”
Immigration:
Holder filed suit against the state of Arizona for their immigration law SB-1070 claiming it would “lead to racial profiling”. Under investigation, Holder admitted that he had not read the Arizona law and that he formed his opinions based on news reports…
Race Relations:
In a 1996 interview with The Washington Post, Holder said “’Regardless of how affluent, educated and mobile a black person becomes, his race defines him more particularly than anything else.’ In other words, according to Mr. Holder, no matter how successful and integrated blacks are in U.S. society, they will always be victims; racial solidarity must supersede their American identity.”
Holder’s Department of Justice dropped the voter intimidation civil suit brought by the Bush administration against the New Black Panther Party. The charges were dropped “due to lack of evidence”, despite the fact that several current and former members have stated that Holder’s Department of Justice “is unwilling to prosecute minorities for civil rights violations”.
In 2010, J. Christian Adams resigned his post at Holder’s Department of Justice out of protest of the Black Panther dismissal.
Regarding the dismissal of the Black Panther case, Holder said during a House subcommittee meeting, “When you compare what people endured in the South in the ’60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subjected to that with what happened in Philadelphia… I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people.” Critics have interpreted this comment as evidence of racial bias on Holder’s part.
Strange Times in the Department of Justice:
Attorneys claim the civil rights division of Holder’s Department of Justice is wrought with “inactivity and wastefulness” and that there simply wasn’t enough work for the dozens of new attorneys they hired. Since Holder took office, “many of its employees spend their time playing computer Solitaire, watching videos, and complaining about the the lack of activity.” Spakovsky wrote, “Attorneys beg for work and are told there is none. If Holder denies this, you should require that the DOJ Inspector General provide the evidence that I am told they have already collected on this point.”
The same attorneys claimed that “during a Voting Section staff meeting called to address chronic tardiness, numerous attorneys demanded permission to arrive at work up to 30 minutes late without penalty. Others wanted to work from home.”
ACORN:
Holder’s Justice Department released a legal opinion that allowed the Obama administration to ignore the will of Congress which voted overwhelmingly to suspend federal funding of ACORN. He also ignored the 88-page report on ACORN’s systemic corruption and flagrant racketeering activities that was issued by Republican investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
2nd Amendment:
Holder is notorious for his anti-gun stance and his interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. In a 2008 Supreme Court briefing, he said, “The Second Amendment did not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms…it only protected government militias’ rights to guns.” He claimed that the Second Amendment posed no obstacle to implementing gun bans.
During his tenure with the Clinton Justice Department, Holder oversaw the “instant background check system”. It was a disaster; the system was constantly breaking down, halting gun sales, costing stores and gun shows untold sales and additional costs. (The problem “magically fixed itself” within weeks of President Bush assuming office in 2001, and the problems have not recurred.)
Fairness Doctrine:
Holder is a big supporter of the Fairness Doctrine, which the Left is hoping will silence talk radio and internet on the Right. In 2004, he told the (very left wing) American Constitution Society: “With the mainstream media somewhat cowered by conservative critics, and the conservative media disseminating the news in anything but a fair and balanced manner, and you know what I mean there, the means to reach the greatest number of people is not easily accessible.”
Gunwalker Case:
Holder has been involved in the “Gunwalker Case” in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is accused of allowing guns to get into the hands of criminals in Mexico. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked Holder when he first knew about the ATF operation known as “Fast and Furious”. Despite the fact that the documents originated in 2009, Holder told Congress he only learned of it a “few weeks” ago. Issa asked who at the DOJ, if not Holder, approved ‘Fast and Furious’. Holder said he didn’t know, ‘but that investigations are underway to find that out.’ (In April ’11, the NRA called for Holder’s resignation over this matter.)
Holder Quotes Highlighting his Dislike for All-Things-Conservative:
Eric has been a long-standing member of the board of directors of the ultra-left swinging American Constitution Society. The ACS believes–as one can assume Holder and the entire Obama administration believes– that the Constitution is a “living, breathing thing”. It is funded by all the major Left Wing stereotypes, including George Soros’s Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation and the Barbra Streisand Foundation. At one of their functions, Holder had the following things to say about Conservatives. (Spoiler alert: He doesn’t like us very much…)
- “Conservatives have been defenders of the status quo, afraid of the future, and content to allow to continue to exist all but the most blatant inequalities.”
- “They (Conservatives) have made a mockery of the rule of law.”
- “Conservatives try to put the environment at risk for the sake of unproven economic theories, to play to the fears of our citizens, and not to their hopes, and to return the nation to a time that in fact never existed.”
- “Conservatives are breathtaking in their arrogance, from redistricting schemes, to attacks on abortion rights, to energy policies that are as shortsighted as they are ineffective, to tax cuts that disproportionately favor those who are well off and perpetuate many of the inequities in our nation, the conservative movement has been unafraid to push the limits in advancing this agenda.”
- Holder denounced “the conservative agenda of social division, mindless tax cutting, and a defense posture that does not really make us safer.”
- “The nation must be reminded that the word liberal is more than a conservative slur. The nation must be reminded that it was the progressive, liberal tradition that brought about the social and economic changes that were necessary many years ago. The nation must be convinced that it is a progressive future that holds the greatest promise for equality and the continuation of those policies that serve to support the greatest number of our people. In the short term this will not be an easy task.”
When you see everything altogether, Eric Holder’s agenda seems perfectly clear—and he continues to be completely in sync with his boss regarding the direction they want to take America.”
Source:
http://patriotupdate.com/articles/obama’s-attorney-gen-eric-holder-who-is-this-man-part-2-of-2
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