The news waves are buzzing with the conviction of former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein along with his crew of hitters. The conviction and subsequent sentence of his execution should not have surprised the leader. Hussein and his posse face more charges. The actual charge and conviction that will send them to the gallows is for masterminding the 1982 slaughter of 148 Shia men and teenage boys in the Iraq town of Dujail.
Hussein and his gaggle of Ba’ath party henchmen received a fair trial. A fairer trial than what many of Hussein’s critics found themselves in during the 1980s and 90s. The human rights group Amnesty International reigned in with their opinion. The controversial organization described the trial as a “shabby affair marred by serious flaws”. Your author has yet to find their opinion on the Dujail massacre.
It is important to point out who has represented Saddam Hussein through most of his trial. It isn’t a Ba’ath party hack. It isn’t some local Baghdad defense lawyer. No. Hussein has been represented by Ramsey Clark. Just who is Ramsey Clark? Well as it relates to this election it is important to recognize a Democrat party operative and he will certainly cast his vote in their direction.
Ramsey Clark’s father Tom was a Supreme Court Justice. Under the administration of President Lyndon Johnson Ramsey, Clark was selected to be a member of his Cabinet, serving as Attorney General and the Department of Justice head. Due to the conflict of interest and possibly because Johnson wanted to see Thurgood Marshall fill the high court seat, Tom Clark stepped down.
Following the conclusion of the Johnson years, Clark found himself involved in the anti-Vietnam War movement. He then went from the left to the far left with his lawyer for hire shingle. Some of his case where he acted as a defense strategist included:
The lawsuit brought forth against the PLO by the family of Leon Klinghoffer. In 1985 the wheelchair bound Klinghoffer was aboard the Achille Lauro celebrating his wedding anniversary and PLO members shot him in the forehead. The terrorist group then ordered the crew to throw Klinghoffer’s corpse in the Mediterranean Sea. Clark defended the PLO, who lost and were forced to pay an undisclosed settlement.
In 1994 Elizaphan Ntakirutim, an ex Seventh Day Adventist pastor, assists with the extermination of hundreds of Tutsi refugees in Rawanda. A 2003 UN tribunal would find Ntakirutim guilty of conspiracy. Clark would describe his client as a pacifist.
In 1981 the Federal District Court of Westbury, New York strips Karl Linnas of his citizenship. He was found to have lied about his Nazi past; more specifically the fact that he commanded a concentration camp located Tartu, Estonia. Clark was there to defend Linnas, who would die during the course of extradition while in the Soviet Union.
Clark has since become involved with such groups as Vote-To-Impeach, a left wing organization set out on to dispose President Bush. Clark would become the founder of the International Action Center (IAC). Many members of this group also hold membership in the Workers World Party, a communist organization. Members from both IAC and Workers formed A.N.S.W.E.R (Act Now Stop War and End Racism), which was an organization started days after the September 11th attacks to protest the Bush Administration’s policy against terrorism.
In 2004 Clark would join former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, former minister of Foreign Affairs Francis Dumas and former President of Algeria Ahmed Ben Bella in representing ousted Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein. In June 2006 Clark held a press conference in Washington DC to criticize US officials for a lack of security surrounding the Hussein trial. He then claimed that the former leader was receiving an unfair trial. On November 5, 2006, as the final verdict was being read, Clark was ejected from the courtroom after passing a note to the presiding judge that stated the trial had been a travesty.
Let the Democrats win this election and you will see the likes of Clark and others of his ilk come forward. Voting for the lesser of worse evils sometimes gives you surprises the reader may not realize. Your author knows what lever Mr. Clark pulls.
