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Preznit CrashTest Dummy celebrates Human Rights Day the way we've pretty much come to expect: by awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to a former Nixon henchman who wanted to firebomb the Brookings Institute:

The Presidential Citizens Medal was established in November 13, 1969, to recognize U.S. citizens who have performed exemplary deeds of service for the nation. It is one of the highest honors the President can confer upon a civilian, second only to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Then there's this guy, the TurdBlossom of his time. Except he went to prison.

As special counsel to the president, [Chuck Colson] was Richard Nixon's hard man, the 'evil genius' of an evil administration. According to Watergate historian Stanley Kutler, Colson sought to hire Teamsters thugs to beat up anti-war demonstrators, and he plotted to raid or firebomb the Brookings Institution. He eventually pleaded guilty to scheming to defame Daniel Ellsberg and interfering with his trial. In 1974, Colson served seven months in federal prison.

Colson took on the tough jobs for the President. He leaked damaging or misleading information to the press about people who criticized the President, had young men hired to pose as homosexuals supporting McGovern at the Democratic National Convention, and engineered mail campaigns in favor of Nixon's policies.

He also wrote the Enemies' List, said that he would walk over his own grandmother if it would help get Nixon re-elected, and hired the 'plumbers' who carried out the Watergate break-in.

Somewhere, Bill Ayers is asking "what am I, chopped liver?"