John Conyers hasn’t even taken his position as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee yet and he is already under virulent attack by right-wing ‘journalists’. Investor’s Business Daily is accusing him of pandering to his Muslim constituents in Deerbornistan and undermining our national security.
The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he’s just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools. But he is in the pocket of Islamists.
John Conyers, son of a leftist Detroit union activist, represents the largest Arab population in the country. His district includes Dearborn, Mich., nicknamed “Dearbornistan” by locals fed up with cultural encroachment and terror fears from a steady influx of Mideast immigrants.
Conyers, who runs an Arabic version of his official Web site, does the bidding of these new constituents and the militant Islamist activists who feed off them. They want to kill the Patriot Act and prevent the FBI from profiling Muslim suspects in terror investigations. They also want to end the use of undisclosed evidence against suspected Arab terrorists in deportation proceedings.
And the 77-year-old Conyers has vowed to deliver those changes for them.
“The policies of the Bush administration have sent a wave of fear through our immigrant communities and targeted our Arab and Muslim neighbors,” he growls.
He’ll soon be in a position to act on his promises. And he has the full backing of the expected speaker of the House. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wants to criminalize FBI and Customs Service profiling of Muslim terror suspects.
The rest of the column just gets worse. But there is a bright side. At no point do they accuse Conyers of using the Arkansas state troopers to procure him women, or of showing any government employees his tallywhacker and asking them to ‘kiss it’. This is progress.
In all seriousness, is there a substantive difference between the rhetoric of this column and typical Nazi propaganda of the 1930’s? If there is it can only be grounded in the relative differences in the actual threat that is being discussed. It is true that that there are Muslims in this country that aim to do us harm, while the same could not be said about the Jews of Germany. But even providing that, the rhetoric is identical and seeks to play on the same irrational fears in our reptilian brains. Just look at the summary.
Conyers led the defense of Bill Clinton in last decade’s impeachment hearings and is clearly out for blood. So are many of the constituents he serves.
Nice. Welcome to the new bipartisan spirit.
