Lackawanna Mayor on Cheney’s call to deploy troops to his city: ‘I wouldn’t expect anything less’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/27/lackawanna-mayor/

Lackawanna Mayor on Cheney’s call to deploy troops to his city: ‘I wouldn’t expect anything less’ of him.


Last week, the New York Times reported that, in 2002, Dick Cheney urged President Bush to illegally deploy American troops to the suburbs of Buffalo to apprehend a group of terrorist suspects (the “Lackawanna Six”). Bush rejected the advice. Reacting to the news, Lackawanna’s Mayor told the Buffalo News that illegal behavior is exactly what he would expect from the Bush administration:

“I wouldn’t expect anything less of the Bush administration,” Lackawanna Mayor Norman L. Polanski Jr. said in reacting to Cheney’s proposal to send in the troops. “The federal agents did their job and the Lackawanna police did their job. We didn’t need the military coming in. The community reacted cautiously, and nobody got out of hand or made outrageous statements.” <...>

“If you bring in the military, you create a panic,” Lackawanna Police Captain Ronald Miller said.

Bobby Green, a lifelong Lackawanna resident, said Cheney’s idea was “kind of crazy.” Andrew Sullivan writes, “What Cheney was doing here was making a point: that he believes that the president can impose the equivalent of martial law inside the country at any moment he feels it’s necessary, even if it isn’t.” (HT: Raw Story)

[47of74]

1. Why isn't Cheney in prison?

That's where evil men like Richard Bruce Cheney belong. As long as the courts of this land or any other don't hold him to account there'll be others who think they can get away with this.

[ejpoeta]

3. and we lose any credibility when complaining about people like mugabe

and other leaders who commit war crimes being tried. who are we to say anything when we don't hold our own leaders accountable for these things!!

[lunatica]

2. They break the laws right and left with impunity

And Democrats keep expecting them to return to being law abiding citizens on their own. Then the cycle repeats.

What's wrong with this picture?

[ejpoeta]

4. the dems were complicit. they went along. i think that is what is going on with them.

and the ones who weren't complicit, are probably afraid that they'll be seen as complicit.

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. Interesting that it says "Bush rejected the advice"

I wonder what really happened. No doubt if it starts looking like prosecution for high crimes actually is going to happen despite all the stonewalling by both Dem and Rep politicians, Cheney will be a designated scapegoat and they will try to distance him more from Junior and his connections. Cheney did terrible things and knows other people's terrible secrets too. I can't see him willingly and quietly falling on the sword to protect the others. Of course, his bad heart is common knowledge....
:tinfoilhat: