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Ramsey Clark is so much more than a “left wing activist” and “anti-war advocate”. Clark is a Saddam apologist who is responsible for an anti-American group masquerading as an anti-war protest organizer.

After Lyndon Johnson left office, Ramsey Clark became the poster boy for the far left. He began supporting anyone that was against America. Clark visited with Qaddafi after the US bombed Libya. He even represented the PLO in a lawsuit filed by the family of murdered American, Leon Klinghoffer.

Clark headed the National Coalition to Stop US Intervention in the Middle East for the World Worker’s Party – a well-known Communist group. Clark went on to represent Milosevic in his war crimes trial. He also befriended Iraqi leaders, including Saddam Hussein. Clark even helped CBS and Dan Rather set up the interview with Saddam that aired prior to the war.

Ramsey Clark is the founder of the International Action Center (IAC) and remains very active with the group. International ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) is an offshoot of the IAC. Clark is a coalition sponsor for ANSWER. The headquarters for IAC and ANSWER are located at 38 W 14th St., Room 206 in New York. This is the exact same address as Millions for Mumia, Iraq Sanctions Challenge, Peace for Cuba, US out of Korea Committee, People’s Video Network and the Coalition to Stop US Intervention in the Middle East.

The official ANSWER website lists their coalition co-signers. The list includes representatives from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), World Worker’s Party, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), numerous foreign Communist groups, Socialist organizations and more.

A major sponsor of the anti-war protests, ANSWER provided speakers that touted some of ANSWER’s pet causes. Other than the war in Iraq and Bush hatred, “Free Mumia” (the convicted cop killer) was the most popular topic. ANSWER’s protest signs usually carried slogans such as “vote no war” and “impeach Bush”.

Ramsey Clark was the driving force behind the call for impeachment of President Bush. He wrote up Articles of Impeachment for President Bush, VP Cheney, Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft. The articles were published one of Clark’s website, www.votetoimpeach.org.

Ramsey Clark hangs out with other self-proclaimed icons of the far left crowd. During the Vietnam War protests, Clark appeared with John Kerry and Jane Fonda. Cindy Sheehan has given speeches at protest rallies sponsored by Ramsey Clark and his group. Lynne Stewart, the attorney convicted of assisting terrorist communication, is an ally of Clark.

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Clark endorsed John Kerry

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Originally posted by Mulhollanddose
However this is not what Ramsey Clark brings to the table or what his intent is...He is seeking to subvert the war-on-terror (just a google search away are his lies and hate-America speech)...He should be arrested and stuck in the cage with Saddam.

I know (believe me I know), but so what...roll out all the apologists, media whores and the like: a good look at who and what they are is the best medicine for a timid populace.

Again, from what my buds write me, the spectacle of this trial is of tremendous value. If SH can be brought to some form of justice, in front of a country he butchered, then there is real value in the process.

It took this country thirteen years to get it right...hopefully the miracle of modern communication will shorten Iraq's struggle to be free.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Clark

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More recently, Clark has become controversial for his outspoken political views. He has also provided legal counsel and advice to controversial figures in conflict with Western governments, including:

* Nazi concentration camp boss Karl Linnas
* The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws Advisory Board during late 1970s and early 1980s
* Branch Davidian leader David Koresh
* Antiwar activist Father Philip Berrigan
* American Indian prisoner Leonard Peltier
* Crimes of America conference in Teheran in 1980
* Liberian political figure Charles Taylor during his 1985 fight against extradition from the United States to Liberia
* Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a leader of the Rwandan genocide
* PLO leaders in a lawsuit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the wheelchair bound elderly tourist who was shot and tossed overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1986
* Camilo Mejia, a US soldier who deserted his post in March 2004, claiming he did not want any part of an "oil-driven war"
* Radovan Karadzic, of Yugoslavia and accused war criminal
* Counsel to Slobodan Milosevic, former President of Yugoslavia, accused war criminal
* Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq and accused war criminal

That's quite a list of sum he has defended, on the positive side, I don't think he won for any of them.:D

Clark is affiliated with VoteToImpeach, an organization advocating the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

From his record, I would think he would be defending Bush should he ever stand trial.:cool:

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Originally posted by motion
I was under the impression that as a defense attorney, you cannot represent a client if you know or believe that he is guilty. An ethics thing. Am I wrong? Does Clark really believe Hussein is innocent?

You can't put a client on the stand that the attorney knows is lying.....a lawyer can defend a guilty person but can not knowing perpetuate perjury by placiing the accused on the stand. Which works with the right of the accused to stand mute and not be compelled to testify against themselves or a spouse.

As to Lawyers that will defend anyone.....it's OUR LEGAL system that REQUIRES it. I don't know WHAT system they are using in Iraq but it probably isn't ours. It may be a mix of Islamic and Napoleonic law that allows for the rules they are working under.

One would think that the world would have been better off if Saddam had "gone for his gun" while being flushed out of his spider hidey hole.....happens all the time over here.....media calls it suicide by cop.....or saving John Q Public the cost of a trial.