Bloodthirsty Liberal

They are so sophisticated and I just love the food and beer.

Ex-Nazi guard freed on technicality in Austrian court
By (Reuters)

A former Nazi concentration camp guard who was deported from the United States on Thursday is now a free man because he cannot be prosecuted in Austria, the Austrian justice ministry said on Friday.

Josias Kumpf, who by his own admission, aided in the killing of 8,000 Jews the Trawniki labor camp in Nazi occupied Poland in 1943 , arrived in Austria on Thursday after the United States deported him following the revocation of his citizenship.

Austrian justice ministry spokeswoman Katharina Swoboda said Vienna had warned U.S. authorities in the past that Austria would be unable to prosecute Kumpf because the statute of limitations relating to his crimes had expired.

“We have always pointed out to the United States that he cannot be charged here with the crimes of which he is accused,” Swoboda said.

The main reason was that Kumpf was younger than 20 at the time of the crimes.

The fact Kumpf had never been an Austrian citizen, and that the crimes which he is accused of were not committed in Austria, also made prosecution in Austria impossible, she said.

Kumpf was born in the part of Yugoslavia that is now Serbia, as a member of the ethnic German minority there. After joining the SS as a guard in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, he moved on to Trawniki in German-occupied Poland.

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday that Kumpf helped guard around 8,000 Jewish prisoners — including some 400 children — who were shot and killed in pits at Trawniki in a special operation in November 1943.

The department cited Kumpf as saying his assignment was to watch for victims who were still “halfway alive” or “convulsing” and “shoot them to kill” if they attempted to escape.

Kumpf was deported to Austria because it was the country from which he came when he entered the United States in 1956, she said.

Swoboda said with his U.S. citizenship revoked, Kumpf was now stateless and had no residence permit in Austria, which technically made him an illegal alien.

But since he could not be extradited to another country, he would be able to stay on. He would have to register his address.

Pass the Wiener schnitzel, please.

- Aggie

Check out this headline

Israel claims woman hurt in rocket attack

JERUSALEM (CNN) — A woman was injured Saturday when a rocket landed in northern Israel, a spokesman for the Israeli police said.

The Israel Defense Forces fired artillery toward the source of the fire, an army spokesman said, but he could not say from where the rocket originated.

Officials said the rocket landed in the Western Galilee region of northwestern Israel, which borders Lebanon.

The Lebanese army said two rockets were fired from Lebanon toward Israel, but they failed to reach Israeli territory. According to the Lebanese army, the rockets landed east of Naqoura, a coastal town just north of the border with Israel.

Israel claims??? Israel does not have a history of lying about rocket attacks, so there is absolutely no reason to write it that way. The media just drips with bias. That must be what they mean when they talk about “professional ethics“.

Update: They double-suck. They could have published this photo, but chose not to:

Security officials Sat. removing the remains of a Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon that struck northern Israel. (Yaron Kaminsky)

I suppose that is an alleged rocket? Huh? Are you listening CNN?
- Aggie

We’ve already read about Eric Holder’s problems at home; now we learn that he’s bringing the Chicago Way to D.C.:

Barack Obama’s Attorney General candidate Eric Holder hires two Senate staffers, still working on the public’s dime, to guide him through the Senate nomination process — yet we haven’t heard one word of objection about the clear conflict of interest from the GOP (non)-leadership.

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Since when do current, sitting Senate staffers get to shepherd presidential nominees through the confirmation process? Where are the checks and balances on the ability of two top Senate aides to advise Holder at the same time they are expected to assist their bosses in providing independent assessments of their client’s qualifications?

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Jennifer Rubin at PJM adds:

A Capitol Hill insider had this to say:

I can’t think of another example of a current Senate staffer facilitating a nominee’s confirmation. If the Senate is really conducting an independent review of the nominee, doesn’t this arrangement undermine it? Would you ever let a judge’s legal clerk act as the lawyer for a defendant? That’s why we have conflict of interest restrictions for lawyers.

Am I alone in detecting a sense of privilege among Team Obama? They invent an office (with its own logo), they think they can hand-pick their guy’s successor, they want to move into guest digs early, they requisition Senate staffers.

The one thing you can say with absolute certainty about the Office of the President of the United States is that if you don’t know humility when you take office, you will surely learn it, and probably sooner rather than later.

Obama’s pratfall from grace should be one of the most spectacular ever witnessed.

May he not have the luck of Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Is it really racist to bring this up?

“I remember my mother’s pulling me from the tangle of sheets and running to the kitchen where my father stood. Through the large windows overlooking the yard, all we could see was the bright glow of flames below. We didn’t leave our burning house for fear of who might be waiting outside,” wrote Murtagh recently in City Journal.

It wasn’t personal. John’s dad was a judge presiding over a trial of some Black Panthers. John still remembers the red graffiti on the sidewalk the next morning: “Free the Panther 21; The Viet Cong Have Won; Kill the Pigs.”

As best he recalls, Bernardine Dohrn, who’s now Ayers’ wife, first claimed credit for bombing John’s home in 1970.

Read it all. Then ask yourself what it would take to get you to befriend Bill Ayers. What could he do for your pocketbook or your career that would make it worthwhile?

And, while we’re on the subject, think about your own life for a minute. If you were safely tucked away on a desert island somewhere, how would I be able to know who you are? If I wanted to understand you, but couldn’t get to know you personally, how would I do it? Could I talk to your friends? Your colleagues? Your religious leaders? Your business associates? Your relatives? Yes, that is how I could come to understand you. Now, can you think of anyone that you know that boasts such a rogues gallery of friends, colleagues, religious leaders and business associates as Barack Obama?

I thought not.

- Aggie