http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6364Time to Deport Alberto Gonzales?
by Bill Gallagher | Mar 27 2007
— from Niagara Falls Reporter (posted with permission)
DETROIT -- The fear-mongers are always warning us: Immigrants and their children bring crime to our nation. They have no respect for our basic institutions. They tear apart the social fabric that has held us together and made America a beacon of liberty. They must be stopped or sent back to wherever they came from. The greatest threat to our freedom and security comes from Mexico.
Right-wing politicos and the shout chorus in broadcasting have been warning us about the decadence immigration brings to all we value. Now is the time to listen. Alberto Gonzales is a criminal.
The attorney general of the United States is the poster child for lawlessness. This child of Mexican immigrants is a serial felon. He has approved of torture and secret prisons, asserted that the president has the authority to do anything in the name of national security, rejected the Geneva Conventions and international law, created rogue military tribunals, denied habeas corpus and legal counsel for detainees not charged with specific crimes, and authorized illegal wiretaps and eavesdropping on millions of Americans.
His lesser felonies include repeated acts of perjury, destroying evidence and obstruction of justice. Richard Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell -- who approved the Watergate break-in, helped cover up the crime and did a prison stretch for his vile deeds -- was a model of probity compared to Gonzales.
What Nixon, Mitchell and their co-conspirators and fellow felons did brought great harm to our republic. But our national resilience overcame the nightmare. What President George W. Bush and Gonzales have done requires nothing short of a political exorcism. In a nation built on the rule of law, they are the bedmates of Beelzebub.
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