How to hold Holder without 'using guns'

In yesterday's post asking for help in opposing confirmation of Eric Holder as attorney general, I promised to address what to say to a senator who is hostile to the "gun rights" argument.

Depending on your beliefs, and the temperament and ideology of the senator you're writing to, consider objecting based on one or more of the following:

Holder's role in Waco:

The federal prosecutor who raised questions about a possible Justice Department cover-up in the Waco standoff was abruptly removed from the case along with his boss, according to a court filing made public Tuesday.

Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder recused U.S. Attorney James W. Blagg in San Antonio and assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Johnston in Waco, Texas, from any further dealings in criminal or civil proceedings related to the siege.

Holder on medical marijuana for AIDS patients:

Members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP), a national AIDS advocacy organization, filed the initiative earlier this year after interim Council Chair Charlene Drew Jarvis and U.S. Attorney Eric Holder proposed legislation to stiffen penalties for the possession of marijuana. "We should not make criminals out of sick and dying people who are simply trying to improve the quality and quantity of their lives," ACT-UP spokesman Steve Michael explained.

Holder and Elian Gonzalez:

About two weeks before the raid, Tim Russert asked Holder, "You wouldn't send a SWAT team in the dark of night to kidnap the child, in effect?" Holder answered, "No, we don't expect anything like that to happen." Then the Department did precisely that. The day after the seizure, Holder appeared again with Russert, who asked, "Why such a dramatic change in position?" "I'm not sure I'd call it a dramatic change," Holder answered.

Holder and the Mark Rich Pardon:

A forthcoming Congressional report on the last-minute pardons by President Bill Clinton says Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was a ''willing participant in the plan to keep the Justice Department from knowing about and opposing'' a pardon for Marc Rich, the financier...

The most controversial pardon went to Mr. Rich, a commodities trader who fled the country in 1983 rather than face trial on charges of tax evasion, racketeering and trading with the enemy...

Mr. Holder, the report says, played a major role, steering Mr. Rich's lawyers toward Jack Quinn, a former White House counsel...

The panel criticized Mr. Holder's conduct as unconscionable and cited several problems. It cited his admission last year that he had hoped Mr. Quinn would support his becoming attorney general in a Gore administration.

Don't forget to point out that "Rich bought oil cheaply from Iran during the American embargo during the hostage crisis, and sold it high."

Holder's defending clemency for terrorists:

Chairman Orrin Hatch grilled Holder because the FALN terrorists never even requested clemency...

And, the Clinton Administration never even contacted the victim's families.

The FALN terrorist's were behind more than 120 bomb attacks on United States targets between 1974 and 1983...

Here's his performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Another point to bring up is that the Justice Department never approached the pardoned prisoners for information on one of their accomplices who was on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list.

Holder and 'reasonable restrictions" on Internet speech:

"The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate... We tried with regard to pornography. It is going to be a difficult thing but it seems to me that if we come up with reasonable restrictions; reasonable regulations on how people interact on the internet, that is something the Supreme Court and the courts ought to favorably look at."

Tomorrow we'll discuss what we need to do. And why we'd better do it soon.

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Who will defend you?

So asks the Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner in today's column. Go. Read.