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12.09.09 - 11:45 AM
Al Gonzales Lived, He Left a Mark
A jaw-dropping interview with Alberto Gonzales in Esquire. Among the nuggets:
All the internal investigations are over with, no finding of wrongdoing, no finding that I misled Congress.
I think 90 percent of what happened to me is politics, pure and simple.
The notion that what happened at Abu Ghraib was a result of the policies of the Bush administration I just think is totally ridiculous.
The notion that we'd have to get legalistic about torture, yeah, can be offensive to me. It's inconsistent with American values.
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Show AllWow...he puts the Al in Alzheimers...
" I have no recollection of the period between 2000 and 2008"
Thank our NAPPY (No Account President and Party of Yoo) for this. Smells like the Bushists'. They need change for certain.
Below is my comment for yesterdays Yoo article. The same applies for this prick.
I'm for renditioning this George Wanker Bush wanna be to a third world country where he can receive some of that good old fashioned torture he believes in. No trial, no habeas corpus, no rights, no time limits on how long he is held and tortured. Just like the kind of law this little fuck believes in.
replyreport this commentHounddog4 December 8th, 2009 11:53 am
Oh. I forgot. Fuck Yoo. And may I add fuck Alberto.
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"The notion that we'd have to get legalistic about torture, yeah, can be offensive to me. It's inconsistent with American values. "
I can't believe he would be offended by "getting legalistic about torture," but he's dead-on about American values. Torture/terror have been part of the armory of America's impressive rise-to-Empire ever since the very first smallpox-blanket was given as a Thanksgiving present.
Democracy that keeps you warm.
Is this someone actually this dumb or simply playing
dumb and being arrogant?
Whichever it is, Gonzales has aided fascism's return to
the stage --
Easy to see that how someone like Gonzales becomes a handy tool for the Bush/Cheney criminals --
"According to all myth, the female - not the male -- gives life"
He knows what to deny.
More human garbage...
Why is this little creep, along with a host of others, still alive?
I dont care WHERE he was born...they should ship him off to some South American hellhole for the rest of his life.
We might ship him back.
What a petty little man.
"Mr. Gonzales, is self-flagellation torture?"
"Beats me."
What Latrine of a College gives law degrees to absolute morons like this tragic clown?
"All the internal investigations are over with, no finding of wrongdoing, no finding that I misled Congress."
He seems shocked that he got away with it. Funny how that works, when you investigate yourself. Today, the Mafia has investigated itself and found no Gambling or wrongdoing of any kind.......
Speedy Gonzales, Traitor to the Constitution, may you soon RIP (rest in pain).
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
One of the problems is that they make up a euphemism, "water boarding." Sounds nice, like boogie boarding. Let's hit the beach and go water boarding this weekend!
It should be called "controlled suffocation." That's what it is. They saturate a pile of towels with water and smother the victim, who is immobilized on a table. He can't breathe. He passes out, they start again. They monitor his vital signs to keep him alive, but in the most horrible torment imaginable. The major media says, "simulated drowning." No, it's real drowning, but calibrated.
Words matter. They can get away with this kind of madness due to complicity of media to even USE such euphemisms. Call it what it is, controlled suffocation.
Next year, I'm leaving America forever. Unlike many of you on CD, I see us (US) going down, hard. Not redeemable. The major villain of the world stage. Like MLK said, the largest purveyor of violence in the world. And, this includes environmental violence. The whole world knows it, but most Americans remain blissfully unaware.
Let's give Obama some more peace prizes ... not for actual peace ... but for peace "branding."
"They saturate a pile of towels with water and smother the victim, who is immobilized on a table."
And, I would add, they stuff the mouth full with a fully drenched towel or wascloth. Then they "tickle" the epiglottis. All else you mentioned is completely and totally accurate.
Some people have earned being drawn and quartered.
Gonzales is a puppet and expendable, "when the time comes". For now, he evidently is still a strategically convenient idiot, and worse, but nowhere as bad as his powerful masters. He like playing at the ends of the strings, but these strings aren't provided with any guarantees in terms of longevity. Fools don't care about such details, and he's clearly a fool.
Al Gonzo as Mary Poppins. Perfect.
By failing "to protect and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic", President Obama has violated his oath of office and aided and abetted war crimes. This is not a slippery slope; it's a cliff.
I have known people like Alberto, we all have. Morality and legality mean nothing as long as they get to be an important person, and they can feel important directly porportionally to the number of people they can shit on and the degree to which they can fuck over others.
He didn't want to hurt other people necessarily, but he was in a position to do so and had to do it to emphasize his position.
This a picture of a man who became important in his own eyes, and nothing, absolutely nothing else mattered. He said it himself in giving advice to young people: "Your chance to be important may come along anytime. Be ready for it."
Power in the hands of such people is like a loaded gun in the hands of a kid playing cowboy.