Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Who, ME?
I’m just an innocent bystander collecting a big salary to ignore memos addressed to me.
It’s that other guy.
“Such irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric must be repudiated in the strongest possible terms,” Holder wrote. “Those who serves in the ranks of law enforcement are our nation’s heroes and deserve our nation’s thanks, not the disrespect that is being heaped on them by those who seek political advantage.”
Funny. I seem to recall that between 2001 and 2009 Pelosi, Woolsey, Reid, and others with a D after their names using similar irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric in order to “seek political advantage.”
In fact, they still use “irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric” against both the previous administration and the GOP, and especially against conservative blacks and women, for political advantage.
Seems as if the shoe he thought so comfortable when he was outside of it pinches when he has to wear it.
Even if he knew nothing about it (which would make him incompetent to hold the job), he is still in command of the good ship USDOJ, and as such bears the responsibility if it goes aground.
The man has no problem telling us we are cowards….but, as he will find out….the paper trail will catch up. What a maroon….
ON top of that, regardless, his chain of command allowed the deaths by stupidity of government agents and civilians, already, and I’m sure more to come, not even counting the ones in Mexico, and he has the balls to say “hey, I didn’t know!” Ask General Homma about the Bataan Death March….not ordered, not briefed, yet….A firing squad rendered “justice” for his position as the one in charge, who should have known, and should therefore, be held responsible….sadly, Gen Homma is not available for comment, nor is Goering, Goebbels, etc…you get my point.
He can’t man up, he’s a coward, now out to save his own hide, with no empathy for those who he killed.
Well put, xformed. It was his watch, it is his responsibility.
The trial of Homma was questionable. As one military attorney said about it “the outcome was never in doubt.” One Supreme Court Justice also protested the verdict and condemned the trial.
You may in charge, but that does not automatically make you responsible for everything. At the same time, it doesn’t absolve you of all the consequences. The executions of both Homma and Yamashita were “victor’s justice.”
You may in charge, but that does not automatically make you responsible for everything.
Yes, it does. It’s one of the attributes of being “in charge.”
It doesn’t mean none of your subordinates are going to screw up, and it doesn’t mean you should fall for any of those screw ups in particular. Unless your habit is to duck responsibility at every turn and to shift blame as far and as often as you can.
Eric Hines
Homma was really shot because he defeated MacArthur.
Yep! And Yamashita was hung for something he had control or responsibility for. Yamashita had declared Manila an open city and ordered all IJA troops out of Manila, but an Admiral put a bunch of Sailors and Marines in and proceeded to burn the place down. MacArthur’s penthouse apartment was burned along with his library.
I don’t blame MacArthur for disliking Yamashita and Homma, but what he did was just victor’s justice. MacArthur had them in his power and killed them simply because he could.
“Such irresponsible and inflammatory rhetoric must be repudiated in the strongest possible terms,” Holder wrote. “Those who serves in the ranks of law enforcement are our nation’s heroes and deserve our nation’s thanks, not the disrespect that is being heaped on them by those who seek political advantage.”
Here’s a few more things we in law enforcement deserve:
-Not to be shot by firearms sold to the cartels by our sister agencies.
-Not to have the AG of the US steal any valor earned by law enforcement by wrapping himself with the title “America’s top cop” to avoid being considered what he truly is…a politician himself. As far as this cop goes, the AG is *not* a cop.
-Leaders that don’t lie under oath. If I were to be caught lying under oath, I’d be rightfully fired.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giglio_v._United_States)
-A small raise would be nice
He’s America’s top DA. Badgers love how useful and helpful DAs can be, don’t we, Chunk? DAs NEVER cut deals and let scum go, after all. Of course, Holder has shown himself to be scum.
“Look, you’re paid to take a punch. Juries don’t like these kinds of cases”. Grrrrrr
I sat on a jury where a man was charged instead of the Policeman that had misbehaved. We saw the Cop commit perjury, also telling two different stories. We acquitted the defendant with a deliberation of less than 5 minutes. The City Attorney was not at all pleased.
I later met the defense attorney at the post office and asked if his client was going to sue the City. He told me he handled only criminal stuff, but that he recommended his client sue the city and the cop. When I left that town, the criminal cop was still a blue uniformed thug in good standing.
All too often, Chunk, they don’t get fired. In my experience, they usually don’t.
And he did not know who Marc Rich was, either. This guy is either a major liar or super incompetent. My bet is on ‘both’. He deserves to be punished severely. now it will be interesting to see if his lying and lack of awareness is punished as was a Republican Senator who, when drinking as he often was, liked to hug and kiss his staff. Nobody died when the Senator did his ‘mashing’; but then the bar is so much lower for Democrats.
Look, sportsfans, the bottom line is that BOTH those smarmy bastards Holder and Obama are as slippery as a greased weasel playing twister. They don’t EVEN have a nodding acquaintance with the truth, let alone any fidelity to same. And they are egotistically contemptuous enough of their political opponents to believe that they can brazen it out without need of response to ANY charges–political OR legal. They have taken the measure of their opponents and figure that, with the MSM on their side, they can lie through their teeth and never get called on it. In my greater flights of Barbancourt-induced reverie I often think if they manage to steal the 2012 elections it may be time to re-think the re-location of the duck-blind–they’ll NEVER leave any other way–all I would be waiting for is to be diagnosed with incurable cancer with 6 mos to live–then it’s get out the WD-40 time..
Holder is guilty of either perjury, or incompetence. In either case, he needs to go down, hard.
A pathetic twerp. And that’s when I’m feeling kindly towards the little weasel.
Here’s one man’s analysis of Holder’s Letter: http://aplebessite.com/2011/10/07/atty-gen-holders-letter/
Also, a shameless plug.
Eric Hines
So then – someone else in his office read the F&F memos and made a decision not to bring it to Holder’s attention.
Name them.
It occurs to me that somewhere in Mexico a drug lord holds a literal smoking gun that could bring down Obama, Holder and the administration. I wonder what they might do to prevent that gun coming to light?
I think those guns have already come to light. The question is will the system put Holder and the Obummer on trial. I won’t hold my breath waiting as I doubt they will be tried.