Comments on Advance Indiana™: Holding Up Holder

Oh yeah, check it out for yourself:http://humanrig...

2008-12-17T20:26:00.000-05:00

Oh yeah, check it out for yourself:

http://humanrights.uchicago.edu/chicagotorture/timeline.shtml

They're called Prisoners of War, unless you would ...

2008-12-17T19:20:00.000-05:00

They're called Prisoners of War, unless you would like to admit that the War On Terror is a propaganda term, and not a war.

Anyway, I highly doubt that this went on for "25 years", if at all..that kind of thing is basically unheard of unless it's the police working under a Republican administration, beating minorities and gay people, that happens all the time.

You may recall years back, that youth prison in Alabama where the guards were raping teenage prisoners, the male ones sometimes got a broomstick.

The only reason that stopped is cause of the ACLU bringing it into the light of day.

The Chicago Police Department used torture, specif...

2008-12-17T18:33:00.000-05:00

The Chicago Police Department used torture, specifically electrical shock treatment, to interrogate people in their custody over a period of about 25 years. Barack Obama was a community leader, state senator and U.S. senator throughout that entire period. He never complained to Mayor Daley to make his police department stop doing that. The Bush administration has brought criminal charges against the principal interrogator who used these torture techniques with the approval of the Daley administration. It never ceases to amaze me how you liberals are so concerned about the civil rights of foreign, enemy combatants but have nothing to say about the civil rights violations committed by your big city mayors like Daley of our own citizens.

Did you just say you're looking for ethics in an a...

2008-12-17T18:11:00.000-05:00

Did you just say you're looking for ethics in an attorney?

I'd rather have Holder than Gonzales, at least Holder hasn't signed off on torture and civil rights violations.

It was only work on a casino license involving the...

2008-12-17T16:59:00.000-05:00

It was only work on a casino license involving the mob town of Rosemont, and a business deal involving convicted political fixer Tony Rezko and a business partner, Christopher Kelly, who just pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges. The professional staff was warning off the awarding of a license to some bad people, while the governor was pushing like hell to give it to them. Holder came in to attempt to help the governor make something that really smelled not appear to smell as bad. It showed very poor judgment on his part, not to mention the whole Marc Rich pardon fiasco. Not the sort of guy you want running the Justice Department.

I think the reason Lugar and Bayh are extremely po...

2008-12-17T16:54:00.000-05:00

I think the reason Lugar and Bayh are extremely popular in Indiana despite being from different parties, is because they tend to steer away from jumping on the partisan bandwagon when things like this happen, they're both pretty moderate and compliment each other well.

As for Holder, maybe he legitimately didn't think to put that down, $300,000 is beans for an attorney of his expertise, and it was 4 years ago.

And what do attorneys do?

They represent people accused by the state of committing a crime.

So I really don't see what the big deal is other than the typical "guilt by association" Republican shenanigans.