Wednesday, December 01, 2004

 

Be DoublePlus Afraid: Ahorita Viene Gonzales



Nat Hentoff makes the case to reject Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, in a Village Voice piece entitled Worse Than Ashcroft:

On November 10, [NPR's Nina] Totenberg quoted retired general Jim Cullen of the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals, who says Gonzales directly contradicted established military and international law. He added that Gonzales realized that "the Judge Advocate Generals' Corps would never sanction departures from the Geneva Conventions or engaging in practices that the common man would regard as torture."

Hentoff argues that those of us who value constitutional rights must always reject fascism -- even when it comes with a brown face.

posted by Michael 9:56 PM