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Adios Alberto - Hola Autocracy

Alberto Gonzales resigned today as United State Attorney General. After nearly a year of growing criticism over his AG, Mr. Bush continued to defend his long time friend saying: “It’s sad that we live in a time that a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeding [sic] from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political purpose.” Many have hailed this resignation as a victory, or good news. They are wrong.

Alberto Gonzales led the most politicized and corrupt Justice Department seen in our times. His selective enforement of the law, his shielding of his political friends, and his contempt for congressional oversight made a mockery of the ideals of American justice. As Mr. Gonzales leaves on September 17th, he will leave unfettered by the notion that he has done anything wrong. No court, no committee, no prosecutor will have stepped up to hold him accountable. The legislature by their lack of legal action has sanctioned his. And the next Attorney General who decides that she/he will not pursue illegality in the White House or will use his/her powers the enrich their party may look back to the record of Alberto Gonzales and be assured that as long as you assert that your president is king, and that you are simply his vassal, you are inviolate. You need not be concerned that you will be judged against those same laws your swore to uphold. For as we now know, laws are for the common people and political opponents.

This entry was posted by steve on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 12:30 am and is filed under Injustices, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.