230 Congressmen recently voted to preserve a measure permitting the indefinite detention, without trial, of US citizens accused
One of them was the Las Vegas District 1 US Representative
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Why Isn't Dana Rohrabacher in Prison?
If the United States Government were governed by the laws it
makes for the rest of us, California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher would be in
prison. More specifically, he would be in open-ended military custody without
judicial remedy of any kind.
Rohrabacher was among the 230 Congressmen who recently voted to preserve a measure permitting the indefinite detention, without trial, of US citizens
accused of providing “material support” to al-Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
That vote, dealing with an amendment to this year’s National
Defense Authorization Act sponsored by Washington Democrat Adam Smith, took
place on May 22.
In a Twitter exchange a few days later, Rohrabacher publicly
admitted to acts that make him a fine candidate for arrest and military
detention under the NDAA.
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| A poseur, not a fighter: Dana (r) with the proto-Taliban. |
For decades, Rohrabacher has been a prominent supporter of
radical Islamist terrorist organizations allied with the CIA – from elements of
the Afghan Mujahadeen in the 1980s to the bizarre Iranian Islamo-Leninist cult
called the People’s Mujhadeen (or MEK).
Any group “that actively opposes Soviets and Nazis and
[radical] Islam is good enough for me,” Rohrabacher insisted in a Twitter
message after I confronted him about his record.
As it happens, Rohrabacher managed
to support a group that actually managed to combine all three of those
characteristics.
On July 23, 2001 Rohrabacher
was a featured guest speaker at a fundraising dinner in Edgewater, New Jersey
for the Albanian-American Civic League, a political front group for the
so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, or KLA.
That event took place about fifteen miles from the World Trade Center,
where – about six weeks later – thousands of people would be murdered in a
terrorist act reportedly carried out by allies of the KLA.
In the years leading up to the US-led 78-day terror bombing
of Serbia in 1999, the
CIA cultivated the KLA as an asset, despite the fact that it was recognized
as an al-Qaeda-connected terrorist group by the State Department and numerous
European intelligence agencies.
After the NATO-coordinated bombing campaign
forced Serbia to relinquish Kosovo, Washington installed the KLA as the
government of the breakaway province.
The KLA’s ancestry is divided between Stalinists and the Albanian “Skanderbeg” SS
division, which rounded up Pristina’s Jewish population before carrying out
a campaign of rape and murder of the province’s Serbian population.
This
pedigree made the KLA something akin to the turducken of terrorism –
Communists stuffed into Nazis wrapped in Islamic radicalism. However unpalatable
this combination may be to decent and civilized people, Rohrabacher found it to
be delectable.
Defending the terrorist group and his support for it, the Congressman
made the remarkable – and entirely unverifiable– claim that “Kosovo sent troops
after 9-11 to help [America] fight bin Ladin and [radical] Islam.”
This would
suggest that in the future the KLA will come into possession of time-travel
technology: It wasn’t until 2010 that the government of UN-administered
province had its own internal security force, and to
date it still doesn’t have an army.
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| Al-Qaeda's American front: KLA volunteers in Yonkers, New York. |
When this was pointed out to Rohrabacher, the Congressman
blithely replied that if someone could provide him with “a source claiming
Kosovo did not send [a] contingent” to Afghanistan, he would “admit that my
memory was wrong” – as if the burden were on reasonable people to disprove his
unsubstantiated claims.
More recently, Rohrabacher was one of the most enthusiastic
supporters of the Iranian
MEK, which began its life in 1965 as part of the Soviet-sponsored
international terrorist network.
During the late 1970s, the MEK carried out
terrorist acts in which U.S. citizens were killed. It also took part in the 1979
siege of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, during which 52 U.S. citizens were taken
hostage for 444 days.
In 1981, the MEK – which was part of the coalition that
brought Khomeni to power -- was expelled from Iran by the Ayatollah and sought
refuge in Iraq, where it allied itself with Saddam Hussein. MEK cadres participated
in cross-border raids in support of Saddam’s U.S.-abetted invasion of Iran.
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| American victims of the MEK, 1975. |
The MEK’s official doctrine, explained Ray Takeyh of the
Council on Foreign Relations (hardly an “isolationist” group) in congressional
testimony, fuses Islamic “values” with Marxist ideology: “From Lenin they
embraced the importance of a vanguard party committed to mass mobilization, and
from Third World revolutionaries they took the primacy of guerilla warfare as
indispensable agents of political change.”
Following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Bush
administration rebuffed an offer from Tehran to exchange al-Qaeda suspects in
Iranian captivity for MEK operatives in “liberated” Iraq.
Until
September 2012, the MEK was inscribed on the State Department’s official
roster of international terrorist organizations.
Prior to that time, under
federal statutes, it was considered a felony to provide “material assistance”
of any kind to the organization – which can include agitating for the State
Department to repeal the group’s designation as a terrorist organization.
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Rohrabacher’s defense of the MEK reads like a variation on WWII-era
Popular Front propaganda. Insisting that the MEK has “changed,” he points
out that “Iran’s Mullahs target [the] MEK [for] death,” which illustrates one
occupational hazard of being part of a murderous Islamo-Leninist cult.
Those who don’t leap to the defense of the MEK “side with
[the] Mullahs,” declares Rohrabacher in a rhetorical flourish worthy of a
petulant High School sophomore.
Not surprisingly, Rohrabacher is willing to
take the side of terrorists as long they direct their violence at people who
oppose Washington’s imperial foreign policy.
During an April 17, 2007 hearing of the House Foreign
Affairs Subcommittee on Human Rights, European legislators and human rights
activists offered testimony condemning the Bush administration’s practice of “extraordinary
rendition.
This is the extra-judicial kidnapping of suspected terrorists, who
were imprisoned and tortured within the CIA’s global archipelago of “black
sites.”
Rohrabacher’s view was that anybody seized and interrogated by the CIA
should be considered subject to summary execution without due process – a position
that anticipated the Obama Regime’s “targeted killing” program.
Rohrabacher’s arrogance and hostility prompted heckling from
a handful of protesters in the audience. This, in turn, provoked a bilious eruption
from the fetid depths of whatever substitutes for Rohrabacher’s soul: “I hope
it’s your family members that die when terrorists strike.”
When I challenged Rohrabacher about that comment, his first
reaction was to whine that he is the victim of a “lie the left uses because it
doesn’t want to honestly debate the points I actually make.” He then admitted
to wishing death on people who opposed Washington’s global system of abduction
and torture, which he considers appropriate punishment for such improper
thinking.
“That they feel [the]
impact of what they advocate [would] not [be] bad,” the Congressman told me.
The violence Rohrabacher wishes on his political opponents would actually be
the lethal blowback from policies that he has advocated.
To Rohrabacher, defending the rule of law and due process as
applied to suspected terrorists is akin to treason – as is refusing to support actual terrorist groups when they are retained
as assets of the U.S. government.
When talk radio bulimics fall prey to ideological
double-think of this kind, the results are disagreeable but not particularly
harmful.
Owing to Rohrabacher’s position, however, his delusions have played a significant
role in visiting destruction and death on hundreds of thousands of people in
distant countries, and he expects those who have survived his eccentric brand
of humanitarianism to be abjectly grateful for the attention lavished on them
by Washington.
During a 2011 visit to Iraq, Rohrabacher – his Chickenhawk plumage
on full display – insisted that Iraqis area indebted to the United States for the invasion and occupation that left their country a shattered ruin.
Noting
that the U.S. is mired in an ever-deepening economic downturn – brought on, in
large measure, by decades of militarism and imperial meddling abroad – the Congressman
demanded that “some consideration be given to repaying the United States some
of the mega-dollars we have spent here…. We could certainly use some people to
care about our situation as we have cared about theirs.”
Taken literally, Rohrabacher’s suggestion would require that some
large, wealthy foreign power – such as China, perhaps – invade and occupy the
United States after imposing a murderous-decade-long economic embargo to soften
us up.
That’s the same kind of “caring” Washington inflicted on the Iraqis, who
understandably weren’t interested in paying for that supposed privilege.
In fairness to Rohrabacher, the demand he made of the Iraqis
displayed a certain consistency between his abhorrent public policy views and the
squalid conduct of his private affairs.
In August 2012, Rohrabacher
moved out of a luxurious Costa Mesa rental home, stiffing the landlord out
of a week’s rent.
After moving in, the Congressman had changed the locks and
prevented the owner, Robert Polyniak, from carrying out agreed-upon annual inspections.
When the landlord’s girlfriend, Darlene Whitsell, finally gained access to the
abandoned home, she
found that it had been well and thoroughly trashed.
“Massive black stains and muck covered the carpet throughout the
home,” recounted
the Orange County Weekly. “Sticky
grime encased damaged, rusted appliances…. Walls inexplicably contained odd
holes, nail polish, and some smelly substance that may have been feces….
A
second-floor suite used by Dana’s wife, Rhonda, as her bedroom contained a
huge, mysterious, lubricant-like stain – something you might expect on the
floor of a Hollywood sex club – that had seeped through thick carpet and
padding to tarnish a hardwood floor.”
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| An example of what greeted Dana's landlord. |
Repairing the damage cost nearly $26,000.
Polyniak deducted
Rohrabacher’s $6,700 security deposit and sent him a bill for the remainder.
A
year later, the Congressman – who had already stiffed Polyniak out of a portion
of the last month’s rent – filed
a lawsuit against the landlord, demanding $21,000 for not refunding his
full security deposit.
Rohrabacher’s
occupancy of Polyniak’s property was a microcosm of the US occupation of Iraq –
and in both cases he seems to think that the occupier is entitled to
compensation from the victim.
The
political class consists largely of people unfit for civilized company, and
among his reprehensible peers Rohrabacher has distinguished himself.
Assuming that
prison cells should exist, Dana Rohrabacher richly deserves to occupy one, not
only for abetting terrorism and mass murder but also in the interests of public
hygiene.
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