http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090414/demjanjuk/

Son: Immigration agents arrive to deport Demanjanjuk

M.R. KROPKO | April 14, 2009 02:55 PM EST | AP

CLEVELAND — U.S. immigration agents arrived Tuesday at John Demjanjuk's suburban Cleveland home to deport him to Germany, where an arrest warrant alleges the frail 89-year-old was a Nazi death camp guard, his son said. John Demjanjuk Jr. was returning to the Cleveland area from Cincinnati, where he had filed motions asking the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay of deportation and to reopen the U.S. case that ordered his father deported. He was in contact with people at his father's home.

"He can't stand up and walk out of the house," Demjanjuk Jr. said. "We weren't anticipating anything like this. I was told that a family member could accompany him. We also were told that we would have 3-5 days notice before anything happened."

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The U.S. attorney general's office filed a response to Demjanjuk's 6th Circuit motions, saying the court does not have the authority to rule on a previous denial for a stay by the U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals.

"Because there is no reviewable final order of removal, this court lacks jurisdiction," the government said. "Simply put, this court does not have the statutory authority to entertain his request and related motion."

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Demjanjuk, a native Ukrainian, has denied being a Nazi guard, long claiming he was a prisoner of war of the Germans. He came to the United States after the war as a refugee.

Demjanjuk had been tried in Israel after accusations surfaced that he was the notorious Nazi guard "Ivan the Terrible" in Poland at the Treblinka death camp. He was found guilty in 1988 of war crimes and crimes against humanity, a conviction later overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.

A U.S. judge revoked his citizenship in 2002, based on Justice Department evidence showing he concealed his service at Sobibor and other Nazi-run death and forced labor camps. An immigration judge ruled in 2005 he could be deported to Germany, Poland or Ukraine.

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The Immigration Appeals board in Falls Church, Va., had denied a motion for an emergency stay on Friday.

The U.S. Justice Department has opposed his previous appeals.

Of course, he's not a former, high-level official from a previous administration.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/03/28/catching-up-with-our-blue-america-victorious-candidates/

If I recall correctly, it was Darcy Burner, an ActBlue candidate who coined the expression "more and better Democrats," and it wasn't very long ago, either.

@ adnoto

...given that new, "better" Democrats will be expected to toe the Democratic party line which is determined by the Feinstein's, Rockefeller's, Pelosi's, Reid's, Hoyer's and Schumer's etc.,

That "given" is exactly what "new, better Democrats" will be expected to go AGAINST. Or they're not "new, better" Dems.

wouldn't it be logical to assume that those few new and better candidates you are able to elect are going to be compromised and or marginalized if they refuse to play along?

You mistake the symptom for the disease. So no, it's not logical to assume that.

-- liberalrob

...on important progressive and/or liberal issues than those chosen by the high and mighty in the Democratic party.

I'm not sure what "more and better Democrats" you're referring to, Adnoto, since it's only in the last two elections that there has been a real campaign to elect them.

I do not and will not donate money to the DNC. However, I have and will (assuming I have anything leftover) donate to ActBlue candidates, who are not chosen by the DNC or the DLC, but are instead vetted by the likes of Howie Klein, et al.

...on the profound irony of our being held accountable for war crimes by the country that centuries ago implemented the Inquisition.

I do hope that either the Spanish effort, or the case in Poland that ondelette discussed will bring enough pressure to bear on the administration that Obama will have to re-member his campaign promises about transparency and restoration of the Constitution, as well as respect for civil liberties.

But perhaps even more efforts will be required for that to come to pass...

Dianne Feinstein and Jay Rockefeller... in any other reality besides this (still on-going) bizarro-world, they would be called Republicans.

Kevin:

Please check this out: http://language-grammar.blogspot.com/

Some of us take our language issues, grammar concerns, (and other OT stuff) etc. there to hash them out, rather than doing it here in the threads.

Kitt:

That clip of Stewart mocking Lieberman was hilarious. Thanks for the link.

Like the product of some unknown, natural algorithm, it seems that the human mind and spirit can only handle a certain degree of organizational scale before it encounters inexorable system failure.

There is a tradition in gardening (especially in UK) that you must have some wild, untamed areas as well cultivated ones.

Thanks very much for those summarizing links!

I've bookmarked them for when I am fresher and more alert.

I agree that the tricky part is not to have any leftover parts...

My observation is that oftentimes a piece of machinery simply wants to be taken apart (so it can breathe, I guess) and be put back together again. Perhaps there's something cleansing in that process.

;~)

I always appreciate your subtlety of mind... only partly because that quality is so rare... especially online...

and never more so than in your recent posts (in conjunction with pow wow) on the idea of the Obama administration and its efforts to "triage" the myriad crises facing us.

I have a bit of familiarity with injury scaling and trauma scores, and "progressive injury" seems like a very apt metaphor.