Best argument for rejection of Gonzales yet

From WiseAss:

Gonzales's advice led directly to the abandonment of longstanding federal laws, the Geneva Convention, and the United States Constitution itself. Our country, in following Gonzales's legal opinions, has forsaken its commitment to human rights and the rule of law and shamed itself before the world with our conduct at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. The United States, a nation founded on respect for law and human rights, should not have as its Attorney General the architect of the law's undoing.

In January 2002, Gonzales advised the President that the United States Constitution does not apply to his actions as Commander in Chief, and thus the President could declare the Geneva Conventions inoperative. Gonzales's endorsement of the August 2002 Bybee/Yoo Memorandum approved a definition of torture so vague and evasive as to declare it nonexistent. Most shockingly, he has embraced the unacceptable view that the President has the power to ignore the Constitution, laws duly enacted by Congress and International treaties duly ratified by the United States. He has called the Geneva Conventions "quaint."

Note the use of the Benjamin Franklin quote in the paragraph below, which pretty much sums up the importance of civil liberties.

As Benjamin Franklin, one of our wisest and most revered founding fathers, once astutely opined:

"people willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."

That quote is not only timely (and timeless) but is a truism. Perhaps we should help Bush and Ashcroft by downloading and printing a wall poster of that phrase with the various wordings of it used by Thomas Jefferson, so that they can look at it everyday and undue the damage they have wrought, while pondering the wisdom of it before they subvert the very principles we stand for and are worth defending again. It might also help you when you are confronted with doublethink Right-Wingers (Fright-Wingers™). Or when you meet with people who consider themselves to be "conservatives" and hold liberty and freedom as vital principles by having them read it. If they still think Bush and Ashcroft are defending our Constitution, our nation, and our most cherished principles, you will have a handy safe non-harmful tool to roll up and smack them up side the head, much like one does to potty train dogs.