| Topic: |
Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
10 Jan 2005 08:47:55 AM |
| Object: |
Alberto Gonzalez, torture fetishist, is a modest, good-natured fellow. |
Alberto Gonzalez is widely regarded as a modest, good-natured fellow.
He struggled up from a childhood in poverty to become White House
counsel under George W. Bush.
And as attorney general he would probably be a step up from John
Ashcroft... if it weren't for one small problem.
The problem?
An incurable torture fetish.
At the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on his nomination last
week, Gonzalez for some reason refused to reject the legal advice he
gave Our Great Leader in 2002: that it's just fine and dandy to order
torture, and that torturers should be protected from punishment.
According to the Washington Post, the "2002 ruling made under his
direction [said] that the infliction of pain short of serious physical
injury, organ failure or death did not constitute torture."
So as long as you don't cripple them or kill them, you're good to go.
Naked pyramid anyone?
Instead of repudiating his former advice as disgusting and un-American
- which it is - Gonzalez said, "I don't have a disagreement with the
conclusions then reached."
Okay... well, what else?
Bush's AG-to-be also repeated his criticisms of the Geneva
Conventions, saying they "limit our ability to solicit information
from detainees," which is, according to the Post, "an interpretation
at odds with that of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the military's legal
corps, the Red Cross, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and decades
of U.S. experience in war."
So nothing to worry about there then.
In fact, even the current attorney general John "Yes, I Can See Into
Your Bedroom Window From Here" Ashcroft has said that he doesn't
believe in torture because it produces nothing of value.
Let me spell this out for those of you having a hard time following
this:
The Bush administration wants our next attorney general to be a guy
who spent several hours last week sitting in front of Senators doing
his very, very best to defend the practice of torturing prisoners.
Any alarm bells going off yet?
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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