02-06-2016, 07:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-06-2016, 08:24 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
They really don't come any better than Micheal Ratner. Few know of him or his work. He is responsible for getting most all of those who have been gotten out of Gitmo out; of putting many a dictator in prison or at least in the dock; of taking on cases NO one else would think to take on; defending Assange; defending prisoners; suing presidents and former high-level administration persons; first case against CIA/USG illegal actions in Nicaragua; making Kissinger and Rumsfeld and others think 200X before traveling abroad...and on and on and on..... You can bet his FBI and CIA files are HUGE!...and would be highly redacted when released. He even went so far as to publicly say that Capitalism was NOT compatible with real justice...and that is, I believe, true; as in Capitalism the rich can buy 'justice' and punish the poor - they also buy the politicians to make the laws that prefer them and their money. Capitalism also sees no value in things it can not sell or make money upon - such as life, liberty, environment, freedoms, privacy, other species, the ecosphere.....or the poor and disadvantaged.
A great, sensitive, and comprehensive tribute to him by his colleagues at WBAI-Radio in NYC here [MP3] ::thumbsup:: to listen to or download. From the show he started [Law and Disorder] by his two other presenters. Michael Ratner Presente!!!!
A great, sensitive, and comprehensive tribute to him by his colleagues at WBAI-Radio in NYC here [MP3] ::thumbsup:: to listen to or download. From the show he started [Law and Disorder] by his two other presenters. Michael Ratner Presente!!!!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass