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Jewish World Review May 19, 2010 / 5 Sivan 5770 Obama's interlocking directorate By Michelle Malkin
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
Back in 1984, when the late Jeane J. Kirkpatrick gave her famous
"Blame America First" speech to the Republican National Convention, liberals
at least waited for something bad to happen before blaming America.
Today, Obama Democrats have now mastered the treacherous art of
the pre-emptive global apology. Foggy Bottom is crammed with so many "human
rights" zealots embarrassed by the country they serve that the State
Department mission statement should be replaced with a condolence card.
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights and Labor Michael Posner is probably not the first Obama State
Department official to badmouth America in front of foreign delegations. He
was just dumb enough to get caught.
Last week, the former head agitator at the transnationalist
outfit Human Rights First trashed our country's human rights record to
Chinese government officials.
Posner is an unrepentant open-borders radical who has long
fought immigration enforcement and vociferously opposed post-Sept. 11
counterterrorism measures to detain enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay. He
was active in supporting the establishment of the International Criminal
Court, an American sovereignty-undermining tribunal that would trump U.S.
judicial authority over war crimes and "crimes of humanity."
And New Yorkers may recall that he joined with Human Rights
First board member Tom Goldstein, far-left billionaire George Soros and
other American self-loathers in the failed effort to turn the Sept. 11
Ground Zero Memorial into a national guilt complex to showcase how George W.
Bush-era counterterrorism policies were curtailing civil liberties.
In short, Posner views our homeland security policies as
unforgivable sins of discrimination. And he couldn't wait to let China know
it.
From Posner's press briefing on Friday:
Q: Did the recently passed Arizona immigration law come up? And
if so, did they bring it up? Or did you bring it up?
MR. POSNER: We brought it up early and often. It was mentioned
in the first session and as a troubling trend in our society, and an
indication that we have to deal with issues of discrimination or potential
discrimination. And these are issues very much being debated in our own
society.
The Arizona law is indeed being "debated in our own society" --
mostly by a parade of willful ignoramuses from Homeland Security Department
Secretary Janet Napolitano to Attorney General Eric Holder to State
Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, who have all gone on television to attack
the Arizona law and then admit they have yet to read the legislation.
At least all the know-nothings in Washington who voted to cram
the health care and stimulus bills down our throats without reading them had
a semblance of an excuse. Those mammoth packages were thousands of pages
long. The Arizona law is a mere 10 pages.
The betrayal of America's interests by the Obama State
Department cannot be understated. Posner proactively brought up the Arizona
law "early and often" as an issue of "discrimination or potential
discrimination" to smear his own countrymen in front of one of the world's
leading repressive regimes -- so repressive, in fact, that Posner's own
boss, Hillary Clinton, once demanded that former President Bush boycott the
ChiComs over their miserable human rights record. Posner had nothing
publicly to say at the briefing about China's own draconian immigration
enforcement measures, let alone how it treats its own citizen political
dissidents.
But this extreme moral equivalence is par for the course.
Remember: The State Department's legal adviser is former Yale Law School
Dean Harold Koh, who believes that America is such a flagrant violator of
international law that it belongs in an "axis of disobedience" with
totalitarian regimes like North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq -- and that
U.S. Supreme Court rulings should "tip more decisively toward a
transnationalist jurisprudence."
And remember: One of President Obama's closest foreign policy
advisers is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Harvard law professor and
State Department transition team leader Samantha Power, who pooh-poohs the
threat of nuclear Iran and praises Obama's commitment to "crossing
boundaries" and "talk to dictators," as the New Statesman reported.
Then there's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is busy
coddling another government that has been bashing Arizona's law while
unapologetically policing its own southern border and kicking out illegal
immigrants without a shred of due process: Mexico.
Instead of voicing concern about endangered American citizens,
Clinton fretted about the political well-being of Mexican President Felipe
Calderon: "We don't want to make his life any harder," Clinton said. I
guarantee you he won't show any of the same concern when he comes to
Washington on Thursday to beg for more U.S. aid while attacking America as a
racist, fascist country.
Foggy Bottom isn't just stuck on stupid. It's stuck on American
self-sabotage.
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