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April 1, 2009
Exclusive: Obama Nominee Harold Koh: Shamefully Weak Defender of American Sovereignty
In yet another disastrous appointment, President Barack Obama has nominated former Yale University dean, Harold Koh, to be the State Department’s legal advisor. The average American - unless familiar with the ultra-liberal, put-America-last circuit - probably doesn’t know anything about Harold Koh, including his disdain for the rule of American law in America, where instead he favors American judges to interpret the Constitution according to other nations’ legal “norms”.
Unbelievable you say? Well, this is the same administration that has given us such oxymoronic appointments as Timothy “Tax Cheat” Geithner for Treasury Secretary and Janet “Man-caused Disasters” Napolitano for Homeland Security Secretary; why not trot out Harold “I Heart the UN and the International Criminal Court” Koh for America’s State Department’s legal advisor?
In a speech made to Heartland Alliance’s Midwest Light of Human Rights Awards in June, 2008, Harold Koh gave some very interesting insights into his thinking. In the speech, Koh accused the United States of “human rights violations” in Guantanamo Bay, where detainees have healthy meals and showers – probably for the first time in their lives – as well as more religious freedom than the average American public school student. Mr. Koh goes on to express concern that Jack Bauer, the fictional lead character in the popular series 24, is leading the global community into thinking Americans regularly commit “crimes against humanity.” What escapes Mr. Koh is the fact that Jack Bauer is make-believe, while the terrorists who beheaded journalist Daniel Pearl and countless others are terrifyingly real and, of course, not mentioned in his speech. Curious logic, you say? We agree.
Harold Koh’s disdain for American sovereignty is evident as the speech wears on. His support for the International Criminal Court, which would include Americans being tried in such court, would be laughable if it weren't so serious. The man who will be legal advisor to the State Department can put Americans, probably mostly our valiant military – our husbands, wives, sons and daughters – at the mercy of an international court for nothing more than defending our nation and doing their jobs...and he well might. He praises a type of tribunal for our citizens and soldiers while condemning the United States for putting enemy combatants before a military tribunal of its own instead of giving the enemy full access to American laws provided for only American citizens in American courts. Crazy, huh? That’s our boy Koh.
While Harold Koh continued with this sort of rhetoric for some time, nowhere in his speech did he condemn Islamic nations for their gross human rights violations against women and young girls, Christians, Jews and those of a faith other than Islam, or for the horrific, torturous deaths suffered by innocent men and women around the world held hostage by radical Islamic terrorists. In Harold Koh, you get a man with a “blame American first” agenda, which is to rip apart the Constitution, tear away the power of the American people and rule of law in favor of the United Nations’ idea of justice, whatever that is, along with an international court that has zero regard for the U.S. Constitution.
Not enough for you?
Harold Koh believes and recently stated publicly - according to New York lawyer, Steven Stein,who was present at an address Harold Koh gave to the Yale Club in 2007 - that Shariah (Islamic law) can have a place in the American court system in “appropriate” cases.
Author Nonie Darwish recently gave FamilySecurityMatters.org a chilling insight into Shariah Law as a body of law that advocates mad-dog-class citizenship for, and the abuse of, women and young girls. Beyond this, Harold Koh advocates Shariah Law for American courts even though Shariah is thoroughly incompatible with a democracy:
Shariah Law believes in the integration of mosque and state while a democracy believes in the separation of church/temple and state;
Shariah Law believes in the subjugation (indeed in the execution in certain circumstances) of women and minorities while a democracy believes in the emancipation of women and minorities;
Shariah Law believes in the subjugation of Jews and Christians and other non-Muslim peoples while a democracy believes that people should be free to worship as they please…
Need we go on? For what conceivable purpose would we allow such a system to step one toe inside America’s hallowed courtrooms, governed by the (equally hallowed) U.S. Constitution, and sully it and us?
While this administration has already begun its un-American plans to seize and control private businesses (General Motors, for example), it is at the same time cultivating the demise of our legal system – a system backed by the Constitution and states’ rights – in favor of “international” law, including some aspects of Shariah law, as suggested by Koh himself.
Harold Koh speaks of condemning America for human rights violations: nothing calls out more for the need to condemn than his personal approval of Shariah Law in “appropriate” cases, perhaps the most crippling and stifling of any laws in the world that affect a human being’s rights. He should be ashamed of himself, and so should President Obama for endorsing such a sacrilege through this man’s nomination.
As parents, we must decide what future we want for our children. We cannot turn back the results of this election – an election where voters cast ballots based upon “feeling”, not fact; and where such voters now are feeling “buyer’s remorse” as the nation continues its freefall into government control and “globalism,” the latter in which Harold Koh is a key player.
No longer is it a partisan issue – it is an issue of right and wrong and, as Mark R. Levin writes in his latest blockbuster book, it is a choice between liberty and tyranny, the latter a condition Shariah Law knows well…as does Harold Koh.
Note to Obama: the world is not a “global community,” you will never be its organizer and the American people – unlike, apparently, you - treasure our uniqueness and sovereignty vis-à-vis the rest of the world.
Family Security Matters Contributing Editor Renee E. Taylor is a freelance writer, photographer and honeschooling mom. Feedback: editor@familysecuritymatters.org.
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