During the Clinton era, Holder played a leading role in the pardoning of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. Holder was deputy attorney general under Clinton. Rich was a commodities trader who fled the U.S. in the early 80s to avoid prosecution for trading with the enemy, racketeering and tax evasion. Rich's wife was a major donor to the Clinton library, the Clinton legal defense fund and the Democratic party. Rich's attorneys miraculously received a pardon for their client from Bill Clinton by circumventing normal pardon requesting procedures. By definition, Rich was ineligible for a pardon and congressional panels were called to investigate how he received a pardon only hours before Clinton left office.
The congressional report released about the sale of the pardon stated that Holder played a major role in obtaining the illegal pardon, by assisting Rich's attorney Jack Quinn with the brokering the pardon. As deputy attorney general, he had to issue an assessment of the pardon request and he ruled he was leaning towards granting the pardon. Holder later admitted he wanted Quinn's help in his becoming attorney general in a Gore administration. Holder offered lame excuses for his role in the pardon by first claiming he didn't know who Rich was, then claiming he didn't think a pardon would be issued to a known fugitive. There are fascinating articles here and here which detail the completely ridiculous behavior of Holder.
Some other little tidbits about Holder I hate:
- He played a key role in the gunpoint kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez;
- He absolutely hates guns. He advocated federal licensing of handgun owners, a three day waiting period on handgun sales, rationing handgun sales to no more than one per month, banning possession of handguns and so-called “assault weapons” (cosmetically incorrect guns) by anyone under age of 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows, national gun registration, and mandatory prison sentences for trivial offenses (e.g., giving your son an heirloom handgun for Christmas, if he were two weeks shy of his 21st birthday). He also promoted the factoid that “Every day that goes by, about 12, 13 more children in this country die from gun violence”–a statistic is true only if one counts 18-year-old gangsters who shoot each other as “children.” . . . Click here to read more about his disturbing gun views.
- He supports restrictions on internet speech - click here to watch
Bottom line, this guy is almost as frightening as Barack himself.
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ROADMAP TO ADDRESS THE LOOMING CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS:
Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II “natural born citizen” based on the Kenyan/British citizenship of Barack Obama’s father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a “citizen” born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution -- the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors -- it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States” as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II “natural born citizen”.
Moreover, each and every member of Congress should be notified that he or she is personally liable (can be sued) for his or her own failure, or the same in conspiracy with other members, to perform what is a ministerial and constitutional duty, that is, to require and/or insist that Presidential electoral votes only be counted for candidates who are “natural born citizens” under Article II of the United States Constitution, the failure of which creates a cause of action for deprivation of claimants’ constitutional rights (as allowed under the Bivens case) against employees of the Federal Government, in this case, to a lawful President and Commander in Chief, and therefore, for deprivation of adequate continuation of the United States as a Constitutional Republic. The constitutionally tortious conduct is not subject to congressional immunity and would be the jettison of Article II of the Constitution by failure to stop and/or object to the counting of electoral votes for Barack H. Obama who has admitted that at the time of his birth his father was a Kenyan/British citizen and not a citizen of the United States of America.
Finally, if 1/20/09 comes and goes with a usurper in the Whitehouse (that is, Obama is definitely NOT an Article II “natural born citizen” -- dad Kenyan/British citizen at BHO’s birth -- albeit he MAY be a 14th Amendment “citizen”) with usurper enablers in Congress and the Supreme Court … God help us because many of the people will -- rightfully and under our Constitution and Declaration of Independence -- endeavor through other means to take back the Government from what is nothing less than a non-constitutional coup d’etat. (SCOTUS now does have the power to forestall that grim yet inevitable scenario, otherwise the blood and possible loss of our Constitutional Republic is SQUARELY ON THEIR HEADS.)
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