Enemy Within Part II
Posted on July 20, 2005
Despite the fact that since 1999, Qaddafi has sought improved relations with Western European nations and issued a denunciation of terrorism, throughout the 1980’s he was known to support many international terrorist and guerrilla organizations, including the Irish Republican Army, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and other extremist Arab and Islamic groups.
Personally, I still wouldn’t trust him any further than I could throw him.
“In 1985, the ACLU learned of an alleged plan by the CIA to engineer Qaddafi’s overthrow. Outraged, they put together a “strenuous” public protest against this proposed action.
In a letter fillled with self-righteous indignation, Morton Halperin, Director of the ACLU Washington office, expressed his opinion of that plan to Sen. David Durenberger, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, with copies to everyone imaginable.
And to make sure no one was left out, the ACLU also issued a press release trumpeting it’s opposition to any attempt to oust Qaddafi.”Source
From small bits of information, the ACLU built a case from nothing more than assumptions. The CIA “plot” they learned of only referenced a “possible” plan to have Qaddafi thrown out of power. Knowing they could do nothing about such a plan, they invented an argument based on assumptions that it must inevitably include assassination, despite assurances that this was not the case.
The ACLU’s position in this case also helps explain another action taken by one of their own members and former chairman of the National Advisory counsel, Ramsey Clark.
Representing a group of Qadaffi’s Libyans, Clark, a former U.S. Attorney General, filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against his own country! You’ve probably heard his name mentioned more recently with his joining the defense team of Saddam Hussein.Source
His actions centered around an air strike in 1986 ordered by President Reagan. The strike was in response to a series of deadly terrorist actions ordered by Qaddafi. Clarks only regret about the lawsuit was that Qadaffi was not a plaintiff. After all, he said, “many of his relatives were injured.”
As long as the ACLU and their friends are more concerned about the rights of international murderers than the rights of American citizens to be safe from such mad men, our nation faces a deep threat, and a true enemy within.
Thanks Mudville Gazette and Outside The Beltway
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Excellent post- I ad no idea. I’ll link to this later on.
Well done.
Cool, thanks!
Good info…you know I thought Qaddafi quit wearing that general’s uniform after Reagan bombed him and opted to go back to the sheet again. Anyway, good post.
As always, Jay, ever digging!
Say, stop by when you get a chance, a few more dittys up at my site.
the sad thing is, we are underestimating Qaddafi, so in effect the ACLU got what it wanted once again, but if we renewed our focus on him you could bet the ACLU would be standing right there ready to say that a foriegn leader’s civil liberties were being stomped on. HUH?!? I still am stunned when I think back on some of the things that the ACLU defends.
Interesting post. I never Qaddafi use the ACLU to get him out of a bind. Did any tax payer money get spent on that project?