Not Fit to be Attorney General
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January 28, 2005
Alberto Gonzales
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his professional career demonstrates that this man isn’t even fit for being a member of society. it is an insult to humanity that his nomination is still actually being considered and reflective of the out-of-control contempt for the concepts of justice, liberty & human rights that the sickos in bushCo have consistently taken pleasure in.
Posted by: b real | Jan 28 2005 17:42 utc | 1
Alberto G may be the perfect AG (hmm, hadn’t noticed that acronymical coincidence before) for a country like this one.
you can pump several rounds into an innocent stranger for making a remark you don’t like, and if you’re an ex-Marine and claim you did it because your patriotic feelings were outraged then the state prosecutor — the effin’ state prosecutor folks, the guy who is supposed to be defending the interests of the victim and his family — will snivel and wipe a tear even as he presents his case against you.
sometimes all of Amurka feels like one of those terrifying “small southern towns” that people made scary movies about back in the Sixties (sometimes starring Sidney Poitier, sometimes a photogenic young whiteboy or two with longish hair and pseudo-hippie fashion accessories). the shooter goes to jail, OK, the machinery of the law moves on, that’s a step ahead of where we were in the 60’s. but for a state prosecutor to be snivelling over the poor, poor murderer he’s supposed to be prosecuting?
and consider the language of the same prosecutor to the press — “he loved his country like a man who loved his wife” — an attempt to redefine ideological terrorism (shooting someone because their opinion of the Iraq war angers you) as a crime passionel? presenting the murderer as a decent Joe really, who was provoked past the point of no return by a dirty Furriner who insulted His Woman? oh, hell, the semiotic layers here are worse than any onion.
A.G. to represent the US as AG – like Cheney at Auschwitz
The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower.
or the U.S. of A. at the world economic gathering in Davos Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley:
While it’s understandably a Euro-centric crowd, all the various constituencies of globalization are well represented. The US is a notable outlier in 2005. The Bush Administration — whose delegations in the last two years were headed by Secretary of State Colin Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney — is almost nowhere to be seen. That didn’t sit too well with this crowd of internationalists, especially those attending the numerous sessions on American leadership.
Point is – how does the US want to be seen in the world? Do they care about it at all? If they care, and there are serious moral and economic reasons why they should, there is no way they should allow Gonzales to keep any official role.
People in the US might not know whats happening in the world, but the world does see what is happening and not happening in the US and it will react.
Point is – how does the US want to be seen in the world? Do they care about it at all?
No, they don’t care about it at all.
Posted by: SusanG | Jan 28 2005 20:43 utc | 6
Well B, you aren’t exactly the Lone Ranger here:
Stars and Stripes
Posted by: FlashHarry | Jan 28 2005 20:44 utc | 7
If more Democrats vote for confirmation than against, I’m changing to independent.
Posted by: bcf | Jan 28 2005 21:22 utc | 9
It was Ted Olson who defined – re-defined – the “enemy combatant”, and the alternative, or parallel system under which they were to be treated. They could be detained indefinetly, because of war conditions. They were not subject to the Geneva Conventions.
As far as I understand it, the arguments were based in a large part on the fact that Gitmo (and other overseas places, though they were not mentioned) were legal no-mans lands.
Posted by: Blackie | Jan 28 2005 22:02 utc | 10
Kind of off-topic, but …
My hunch and fear is that Ted Olson is going to be nominated to the Supreme Court.
Posted by: SusanG | Jan 29 2005 0:15 utc | 11
Hello everyone, the old Moon is slow today and this is off the serious topic above mentioned. Let us lighten things up a little today. I am imbibing some Irish Creme tonight. While many likely don’t want to hear about by forays into alcohol, I must say I need to lift the weight of all the Bushie bullshit off my shoulders if only for a bottles worth.
While this may show a sign of weakness, I have to say so what! My pychological well being must divert soemtime from the realities of the neo-con world in which we live. Tomorrow, I will go to my cabin on Lake Huron and isolate myself from the world and subject myself to the cold that brings me to love this state so much.
Always remember, the state of Michigan has more state controled land than any state in the lower 48. Also, Michigan has more fresh water shoreline than any state of the union and more actual shoreline than any state but Alaska. Sometimes you must say you love something in this world. Have a nice night.
Posted by: jdp | Jan 29 2005 2:52 utc | 13
well jdp you know the old saying: I’d rather have a bottle in front of me …
used to live in Michigan long ago. fond memories of the great lakes, cider mills (probably long since succumbed to Big Ag), ice skating on the flooded baseball diamond in winter…
jdp,
There’s probably a little bit of michigan in a lot of us, we’d vacation/camp many a time Higgins lake, Travers City, Mac a nak — and always my best memory, Johnny and the Hurricanes at Devils Lake Pavilion, on a hot summer night, and I musta been 16 and shit , I think I even danced.
Posted by: anna missed | Jan 29 2005 5:44 utc | 15
And still have a little of Michigan here in this room now, Michigan white oak, cut into some of the finest design ever made in america. Limberts Arts&Crafts from Holland (Michigan) 1901-18.
Posted by: anna missed | Jan 29 2005 6:00 utc | 16
Don’t forget that Michigan had Mormon pirates up near Bear and Beaver Islands. A hoary bunch if there ever was one, arrrgh.
Posted by: biklett | Jan 29 2005 9:11 utc | 17
check this flash video
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/etn/video/index.htm
Posted by: name | Jan 29 2005 10:05 utc | 18