reminds us the real reasons Kerik withdrew his name.
He made a LOT of enemies during his tenure as NYC's Police Commissioner.
This is notable:
There is little precedent in America for taking a former chauffeur and bodyguard and placing at the head of one of the most powerful agencies in the country. Such appointments are more common under a different type of regime. It was Adolf Hitler, it should be recalled, who placed his chief bodyguard, a former chicken farmer, Heinrich Himmler, at the head of Germany's most powerful apparatus, the Gestapo, and ultimately in command of much of the German army.
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Bush may not be a Hitler, nor is Kerik a Himmler. But the elevation of certain social types--with distinctly criminal features--to the highest positions in government is symptomatic of a profound decay of democratic norms and a movement toward authoritarian and violent methods of rule. The attempt to install such a figure at the head of a law enforcement agency with immense powers over the lives and democratic rights of the American people constitutes a serious warning.
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