No to Gonzalez
Armando at Daily Kos has launched a petition opposing the confirmation of Alberto Gonzalez as Attorney General. It is hard to believe that the Bush Administration could come up with someone worse than John Ashcroft, but it is nonetheless true. If Mr Ashcroft was thickheadedly silly, Mr Gonzalez has shown himself to be mercurially sinister. Having accommodated his boss with SCOTUS-disapproved waffling about the meaning of the Geneva Convention, Mr Gonzalez, more than any other individual aside from the President himself, made the horrors of Abu Ghraib possible and perhaps inevitable.
With this nomination, we have arrived at a crossroads as a nation. Now is the time for all citizens of conscience to stand up and take responsibility for what the world saw, and, truly, much that we have not seen, at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. We oppose the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States, and we urge the Senate to reject him.
In addition to rejection by the Senate, Mr Gonzalez ought to suffer disbarment.
