Holder Claims Lawyers Are America’s “Most Effective Terror-Fighting Weapon”…
Interesting, I don’t recall lawyers tracking down and killing Osama bin Laden.
(Daily Caller) — Centrist and right-of-center national security experts reacted with contempt to Attorney General Eric Holder’s claim at a legal convention that the courts are the nation’s “most effective terror-fighting weapon.”
“That’s utter nonsense. . . it is simply lunatic,” said Ralph Peters, military analyst, author and former soldier. In the war against the jihadis, he said, the courts “have been totally ineffective when they’re not outright destructive.”
“He’s unconsciously shilling for his own profession,” said Michael Rubin, a Middle East expert at the American Enterprise Institute. “Holder, like many ambitious bureaucrats, wants to build a bureaucratic empire. . . [and] by doing so, he will get Americans killed.”
On Sunday, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell added his voice to the criticism. “The attorney general said the other night our biggest weapon in the war on terror was the U.S. civilian court system,” he said on CBS’ Face The Nation. “I don’t know what planet he’s living on.”
Holder’s declaration came in a Thursday speech to hundreds of progressive lawyers, advocates, judges and students gathered at the American Constitution Society’s annual gala. “I know that — in distant countries, and within our own borders — there are people intent on, and actively plotting to, kill Americans,” he told his legal peers in the enthusiastic audience. “Victory and security will not come easily, and they won’t come at all if we adhere to a rigid ideology, adopt a narrow methodology, or abandon our most effective terror-fighting weapon — our Article III [civil] court system,” he declared to much applause.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, June 20, 2011, at 11:12 am | 
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They are only effective against terrorists if they are fitted up with JDAM kits and dropped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition
Except when the lawyers are creating the terrorism like in Operation Gunwalker.
Ever notice how much Holder looks like the meerkat in The Lion King?
Hakuna matata!
Shakespeare said for a civilized society, first thing you do is kill all the lawyers.
Q: What’s the difference between a dead lawyer and a dead dog lying in the street.
A: There are skid marks in front of the dog.
this man has caused atrocities on the border by abandoning whole US Districts along, you know where, by letting the defence be scarce and the prosecution many, where competition and bribery thrive, he is the Obot of the year. And he has the gaul to use the civil court system as a platform for global peace?
Yes Mr. Holder if you’re an Islamic Jihadist Lynne Stewart was certainly more helpful than SEAL Team 6.
100 more like her & My wife will be wearing a burqa you magnificent Asshat.
holder’s delusions of grandeur complex and smoking wacky tobacki in kindergarden is the cause of holder’s statement. spending time snorting coke with janet reno may also have attributed to his insanity. Holder and 99.9% of all liberal scum suffer from mental illness , the rest are plain idiots.
OT Funny of the day
The Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins are still waiting on word of whether or not they’ll be invited to the White House for a Rose Garden celebration…
Seems Mr. Obama isn’t sure if he wants to congratulate the Boston Bruins or call Vancouver to apologize…
great! then let them track down and stop LulzSec ASAP (as in today), as they just called on all hackers to unite in a full-out “now or never” war against governments, banks, etc.
Whenever I am confronted by criminals, I immediately wish for more laws.
Holder should be given a canteen of water, a stale doughnut and a water pistol and dropped off in the hills in pakistan. Then he will be able to ful,y appreciate his allies!
If this ‘rat sticks around it is because the GOP wants it that way.
Whenever I see a pack of pitbulls running free, I am unafraid. Surely the leash laws in my community will keep me safe.
He will be a mole if nothing happens, Hackers/Holder 2012 i’m on board.
Lawyer Brigade —-
Halt or I’ll sue!
Ready, aim, FILE!!
Gives new meaning to military operation briefs.
The Roman Legion had the military formation known as The Tortoise — we’ll now have one known as The Tort.
As a group, lawyers have a notoriously bad record. Mean to say, name another profession that is wrong 50% of the time…one side always loses. I’m hoping my doctor, accountant, and the guy flying the plane has a better record. Maybe our system would work better if being a lawyer was a disqualification for office.
Wow Eric. Please don’t step on your IQ. Look back at history when the late Saddam invaded Kuwait, did we file a lawsuit to stop him?
Hammer libs says:
June 20, 2011 at 11:20 am
Shakespeare said for a civilized society, first thing you do is kill all the lawyers.
The “civilized society” insertion is yours, not Shakespeare’s.
And Shakespeare put the line, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” into the mouth of a mad, murderous insurrectionist.
Is he willing to be left in an Islamic tribal area of my choice and show us all how that works?
Yea,I carry a loaded lawyer on my hip wherever I go.
Put his sorry ass in jail for the death of Brian Terry
I truly believe that main reason why our country has fallen to the level it has is solely because of lawyers. Why can’t anyone easily read and understand legislation that the Congress produces? Because it is produced by lawyers. Why does so much legislation have to be challenged in court in order to figure out exactly what something in it means? Because it was written by lawyers. Who killed the entire idea of plain language law and legislation years ago? Lawyers. Who holds meetings upon meetings upon meetings and has an end result of ….holding another meeting? Lawyers. Who is trained to talk, talk and then talk some more rather than do? A lawyer. What profession bills for more time than exists and then has the nerve to bill for each and every pencil, phone call, etc.? Lawyers.
The unbelievable arrogance of this piece of shit. Maybe we need to send a squad of lawyers after Zawahiri and they can talk him to death. With luck, he’ll take them prisoner, have them strapped down, cut their useless genitals off and stuff them in their equally useless mouths.
@Chris in N. Virginia:
It seems to me the litigous Ubama Regime is using “the law” against our own citizenry. As for koranimals, I doubt OBL was given a Miranda warning before he was dispatched to he11.
I have a partial answer to McConnell’s question…
Although he is living on Earth today, Holder is actually from Uranus.
Holder reminds me of Michael Keaton in Betelgeuse, when his head was shrunk..
I can’t wait till this dweeb is fired. Frickin scumbag.
And Eric Holder is a terrorist’s best friend.
This POS needs to go bye bye.
If I was him, I’d just shoot myself!
When it comes to politicians, always assume the most stupid and evil meanings:
WHAT he MEANS is: Attorneys skirt and push beyond the edges of law, and THAT is the most effective way to fight terrorism. Seriously, where else could he be coming from?
“courts are the nation’s ‘most effective terror-fighting weapon’.”
only a lawyer would believe such nonsense.
the average ill-informed American wouldn’t have such a high opinion of lawyers either, if it weren’t for 50 years of TV glamorizing the profession with an endless stream of shows about lawyers.
Shakespeare’s “Dick the Butcher” was right about lawyers.
Say what??? So, if a terrorist is standing 5 feet away from Holder, with a grenade in his hand, is Holder going to be looking for a soldier or a lawyer?
“In the war against the jihadis, he said, the courts “have been totally ineffective when they’re not outright destructive.””
when it comes to Islam and Islamic terrorism…the courts have been outright co-operative…
i think he’s right. if we just feed lawyers to the jihadists they might leave the rest of us alone. it’s worth a shot.
Hold on guys. Let’s test Holder’s theory. Rather than bombs, let’s load up our planes with lawyers and drop them on the Piglamists.
This would be beneficial in six ways; first, the lawyers might actually fall on a few of the demon squirts and kill them; second, it would rid our country of the biggest impediment to our freedom. Third, it would lessen the price of everything we buy. Fourth, it would allow us to actually read (in a few minutes) and respond to, whatever fresh hell the government is trying to slip past us. Fifth, we could then go after the Piglamists in any way we choose.
And sixth, the U.N. would collapse without lawyers.
Can’t see any drawbacks… What do you know, for the first time in Holder’s life, he is right!
BTW, law students and professors could be used as IED locators.