Mark Levin stands with Keep America Safe and disputes “the group of leading conservative lawyers and policy experts denouncing as “shameful” Republican attacks on lawyers who came to the Obama Justice Department after representing suspected terrorists.”

“The isn’t the Boston Massacre. You have people in the position of defending this nation at the highest levels of the Justice Department who have represented the enemy, and their belief systems have clearly affected national security policy. … And in some cases, these lawyers were not just representing clients, they went out and found them, sought them out. They considered them some of the most important cases they ever had. “Due process rights for the enemy? Absolutely. Civilian justice for the enemy? Absolutely.” Now they’re in government making the same exact decisions except they are setting policy. … Ben Smith at Politico, why don’t you make a list of some lawyers like me, former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Meese; I side with Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame and Keep America Safe.”

Here is the complete audio of Mark on this from last night:

On February 26, 2010, Mark Levin cited a factual account of the Boston Massacre and John Adams’ truly noble role in its aftermath. Mark added:

“[T]hese things get used to distort current events. … The Boston Massacre had nothing to do with overthrowing the United States — it was a tragedy and John Adams did not seek as his goal to confer special rights on people who were plotting to destroy American society through any means possible.”

I offer Mark’s commentary as further evidence that to cite John Adams as a comparable example to the allegedly altruistic work of the ‘Al Qaeda Seven‘ (among others) fractures American history. Worse, it unwittingly lends credibility to the ACLU’s vile use of that Founding Father and a great patriot’s name in their insidious attempt to undermine our national security and to criminalize America’s use of military force in the Nation’s defense.

“If lawyers choose to volunteer their services to the enemy in wartime, they are on the wrong side of that fault line, and no one should feel reluctant to say so.” — Andrew McCarthy

“If not for the vigilant work of Keep America Safe, the corruptocrat Attorney General Eric Holder’s national security stone wall on DOJ’s terror lawyers would still be standing. Asking politely, in respectful tones with bowed heads and stooped spines, did not get the DOJ to cough up the names.” — Michelle Malkin

Wednesday, Mark interviewed gun author and former University of Chicago Law School professor, John Lott.

Lott’s experiences with and impressions of Obama are interesting, but come as no surprise, do they?

Last night, Mark Levin mocked the mainstream media, using Politico.com as a foil. He told them to “get serious” with their reporting instead of wasting his time with questions about the John Birch Society plus the 9/11 truthers, Birthers, and “militia-types.” They do not represent conservatives and the MSM’s idiotic questions will not deter us:

In addition, the Politico reported:

The courthouse in Shanksville, Pa., is emerging as the most likely alternative to New York because it is the only one outside a densely populated urban area. The city of Alexandria, Va., in the Washington metropolitan area, doesn’t have the underground tunnels between its jail and its courthouse that New York City’s complex has. Suspects have to be driven back and forth to each day’s proceedings, snarling traffic and increasing costs.

Here is my comment (#18) that I posted in reply:

You meant Johnstown lest the fire chief in Shanksville (pop. 243) conduct Holder’s show trial, ala Judge Roy Bean, in the only public building there, a 4-bay volunteer fire house. Having lost family on 9/11, I would happily serve as both bailiff and noontime hangman after that VERY speedy trial.

I’ll help you out with Johnstown. They have a two-story, brick [actually, it is four stories] federal courthouse that is primarily to adjudicate bankruptcy [cases] and accept filings. There is a trial courtroom and a small lockup yet we are talking tiny and nowhere near adequate for the “trial of the century.” For grins, let’s consider it anyway.

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Update, February 26, 2010: The federal courthouse in Johnstown occupies only the ground floor of this building and shares that floor with a small federal lockup, the regional IRS office, and a Social Security office. The National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) occupies the second through fifth floors.

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The Feb 1, 2010 Johnstown Tribune-Democrat has the local reaction. Here is a taste:

* “I vote for Virginia,” Johnstown police Chief Craig Foust said, laughing. …

* “I will strongly oppose any decision that will have the mastermind of the September 11th attacks housed in our backyard in Johnstown or anywhere else in western Pennsylvania,” [PA-9 US Congressman] Shuster said in a statement. …

* The challenges will be overwhelming, warned [Ms] Tokar-Ickes, recalling the demands thrust on Somerset County’s resources after the crash of Flight 93 near Shanksville. … “If New York City can’t handle the realities of that trial, how could a small rural county?” she said.

* “It is unlikely that an area of western Pennsylvania would be able to handle that kind of responsibility.”Johnstown Mayor Tom Trigona said he has not been approached about the trial. “I am probably thinking it would not be a great idea,” Trigona said.

Me: In addition, the federal courthouse there sits across the street from both Johnstown’s leading attraction, the National Flood Museum, and the parking area for its second leading attraction, the Incline. It is right up against Washington Street, a major thoroughfare. It is a block from the leading hospital, UPMC, within a few blocks of towers for senior citizens and residential area, and inside the heart of the business district.

The trial ain’t happening in Johnstown. (I vote for Shanksville!)

Former Attorney General and Heritage Foundation Distinguished Fellow Ed Meese joined Mark Levin this evening to discuss The Mount Vernon Statement (full text and signature form below) and more:

The Mount Vernon Statement
Constitutional Conservatism: A Statement for the 21st Century

We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding.Through the Constitution, the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law. They sought to secure national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government.
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