I see Walpurgisnacht has come early this year. The ghastly daughter of confessed war criminal Dick and Lynne Cheney has, along with her deranged supporters, launched an ad accusing lawyers in the Justice Department of being traitors -referring to them as "The Al Qaeda 7″.
I could point out the obvious: this is a textbook example of projection, a term shrinks use to describe the way people with weak morals cope by accusing others of what they themselves are guilty of. After all, no one has done more to help Al Qaeda than confessed war criminal Dick Cheney and his willing executioners.
I could also point out that this is a transparent attempt to smear any Justice Department lawyers who might not be on Attorney General Eric Holder’s cover-up bandwagon. The idea of a single DoJ lawyer actually doing his or her job must be terrifying to Dick Cheney and his henchmen, who realize that should a prosecutor make so much as a token effort, they stand a real chance of landing in the dock.
I could even point out that since Holder and Obama are so committed to covering up the atrocities of the Cheney-Bush Junta, and thus the chances that confessed war criminal Dick Cheney or his cowardly thugs will ever face justice are slim to none, that the plangent cries for immunity and the shameless boasting are not so much a political ploy as the ravings of psychopaths with diseased minds, taunting the authorities who cannot or will not do anything. In this, the ad accusing DoJ lawyers of being in league with Al Qaeda, the boasting about torture, and the self-pitying whines about how they are so persecuted are very similar to Osama Bin Laden’s videos, as well as the letters the Zodiac Killer used to send to the police and newspapers.
I could go on about any of the three previous points at length, but I won’t. First of all because Glenn Greenwald and others have pretty much covered the first two. Second, because I’m willing to bet these lawyers will get thrown under the bus (just like the rule of law itself) by Obama and Holder, whose yellow streaks get wider and wider, making the third mostly irrelevant. Finally, because to do so now would distract from something that needs to be pointed out at every opportunity:
Dick Cheney is a loathsome coward who sends his daughter out to lie on his behalf day in and day out. This is not the first time he has been such a craven worm. Back when Dick Cheney was eligible to serve in Vietnam, he got a deferment on the grounds that he was a student and because his wife was expecting. Even after his daughter was born (the same one running an ad calling Justice Department lawyers traitors), Draft-Dodger Dick "had other priorities" that were more appealing to him than serving in Vietnam*. In other words, Dick Cheney has been hiding behind his daughter for the better part of forty-five years!
*Refusing to serve in Vietnam is something to be proud of, provided the man refusing to go did so because he opposed the war or opposed war in general. However, a warmonger like Cheney deserves every white feather given to him since he’s a cowardly hypocrite. On the other hand, if I had to choose between fighting in Vietnam and impregnating Lynne Cheney, I’d take my chances against the Vietcong.