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Ralph Miller: Let's stop Gonzales.
Submitted by Howard2 on Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 13:32
President Bush has nominated White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales (a "relatively moderate" Latino/Hispanic son of migrant farm workers) to succeed John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General. In spite the fact that Gonzales would be the first hispanic U.S. Attorney General, he is bad for this country and we should encourage Progressive members of the Judiciary committee to oppose his nomination. Gonzales is a Bush confidante who helped craft some of the administration's most controversial anti-terrorism strategies. As reported today in the Washington Post, Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, pointed out that Gonzales is "right in the middle of where this administration went off the page of the law and into chaos. They're promoting someone who was one of the legal architects of the abuse." According to the Post, in a draft memo in January 2002, Gonzales argued that the war on terrorism made the Geneva Convention's limitations on the treatment of enemy prisoners "obsolete" and "renders quaint some of its provisions." His office is also remembered for its role in drafting an August 2002 memo on behalf of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel advising that torture of alleged Al-Qaeda terrorists in captivity abroad "may be justified" and that international laws against torture "may be unconstitutional if applied to interrogations" conducted in the U.S. was on terrorism. Gonzales has publicly defended the administration's policy of detaining alleged "enemy combatants" without access to lawyers or courts, a position rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. Please take action to stop Gonzales. ¡Juntos, Sí Podemos! Ralph Miller National Director Latinos for America Kentfield CA
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