Alberto Gonzales

[Tsiangkun]

WASHINGTON -- November 15 -- The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) announced that it opposes the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for the position of Attorney General.

The NLG condemned Gonzales for his approval of the torture of prisoners in memos he adopted as White House Counsel. The memos explained how American officials could escape legal liability for torture. Gonzales rejected the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to prisoners taken during the “war against terrorism,” terming some of the Geneva provisions “quaint.” The Guild said that Gonzales’s contempt for accepted international law principles rendered him unfit to serve as the head of the Justice Department.

NLG President Michael Avery declared that, “The Constitution requires that the United States treat international treaties that it has signed as the supreme law of the land in the United States. It is the solemn obligation of the Attorney General to make sure that the United States complies with international law. It would be outrageous for the nation’s top law enforcement officer to be contriving theories for American officials to avoid accountability for actions such as the torture of prisoners.”

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The Christian Church organized to put Bush in office and informed members a vote for any other candidate would be a sin against God.

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It is yet another of Bush's moves to make the US appear as the world leader. Basically he's saying that we answer to no one, but everyone else had better do as he says or we'll bomb their country into a 3rd world shithole.

A tad more information on Gonzales: While he was Bush's Texas State Attorney General he intentionally withheld crutial evidence that would have exonerated death row inmates or at least have given them an opportunity to receive a new trial.
That's murder in my book.