Interesting ….

…. How I’m being hectored over this post from last year:

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June 26, 2008

Relating the Dots: Obama …. Soros …. Stewart …. CAIR-OH …. CCR …. and Al-Qaeda

On Tuesday, Matthew Vadum at NewsBusters exposed “Al-Qaeda’s law firm,” the so-called Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the group that argued the case that led to the “the U.S. Supreme Court’s lawless, nonsensical decision in Boumediene v. Bush” (yet another Supreme Court opinion that a president would be fully justified in defying in future similar situations in the absence of legislation ratifying the judges’ sentiment).

Vadum noted that:

CCR donors include the Ohio branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Safa Trust Inc., and the International Institute of Islamic Thought, all of which have been accused of connections to Islamist terror groups.

Patrick Poole took it from there concerning CAIR-OH (links are in Poole’s original):

No doubt some of that CAIR-Ohio money funding Al-Qaeda’s law firm came from the fundraiser featuring 1993 World Trade Center bombing unindicted co-conspirator Siraj Wahhaj, who helped raise $100,000 for CAIR-OH as the keynote speaker at their 2006 annual banquet; and the 2007 CAIR-OH annual banquet featuring Governor Ted Strickland.

As a reminder, Ohio’s media appeared to consciously choose not to report Strickland’s CAIR-OH banquet appearance in June 2007, even though (or was it because?) CAIR-OH’s controversial terror connections were already quite well-known.

CCR supported radical lawyer Lynne Stewart, who was convicted in 2005 by a jury of giving aid to Islamic terrorists and was sentenced to 30 years. Stewart was convicted of providing material support to terrorists by serving as a communications funnel between those inside and outside of jail; those communicating from jail were convicted of various terror-related crimes. A judge later inexplicably and outrageously reduced her sentence to 28 months (HT Stop the ACLU). Stewart, thank goodness, was at least disbarred as a result (HT Volokh).

Stewart’s defense was partially funded by (/surprise) Democratic Party go-to money guy George Soros (HT Captain Ed).

In mid-March 2007, per Ed Lasky at American Thinker, Soros called “for the Democratic Party to ‘liberate’ itself from the influence of the pro-Israel lobby and ….. (stated) that America should be dealing with Hamas, the terror group that is now the governing authority of the Palestinians. This was published in the influential New York Review of Books.” Soros has also laughably “equated the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.”

Soros has been a money tree for the presidential candidate I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein Obambi” Obama – Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) since early 2004.

Those are terror-supporting and/or terror-sympathetic relationships you can believe in.

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It’s interesting, because in just 48 or so hours of the Obama Administration, I’ve already been shown to be half right:

Obama Orders Halt to Guantanamo Trials
Obama to Close Guantanamo

These are indeed terror-sympathetic moves our now-encouraged enemies can believe in.

Obama’s orders follow on the heels of a terror-sympathetic Supreme Court decision in June of last year.

To the extent that decisions like the Supremes’ and orders like Obama’s give aid and comfort to our enemies that we can be rolled by our own legalese and hang-ups over giving hostile non-citizens who want us all dead or converted to Islam the same rights as citizens, they will first encourage fiercer resistance and and assist in terror recruiting. If increased resistance succeeds, our terrorist enemies, who have been generally on the run since 9/11 (but not completely — see Mumbai), may get back on the offensive in many more places around the world, even here in the US. If that happens — and if history is a guide, it sadly will — the decisions identified above will in retrospect be seen as not merely terror-sympathetic, but terror-supporting.

Glad that’s cleared up.

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UPDATE: Michellle Malkin on John Murtha’s push to have the Gitmo guys housed in his district — “The John Murtha Jihadi Correctional Facility.”