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AG Gonzales Tells Courts to Look the Other Way while Bush Tramples Constitution in Speech to Neocons

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 01/17/2007 - 4:00pm.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Anytime Attorney General Alberto Gonzales speaks to the ultra-neocon American Enterprise Institute (the same bunch that helped Bush craft his Iraq "surge"), you can bet he will say some pretty outlandish things, especially if the event is closed to the public. Sure enough, his speech today was a doozie.

Gonzales said that courts should defer to the will of the president in national security cases. "A judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country," he said. As always, he also lambasted the evil "activist judges."

Last year was certainly a bad year for the Bush Administration in court. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled their warrantless surveillance program illegal, and the Supreme Court struck down their treatment of detainees in Guantanamo. Why? Because those Bush programs - among others - are totally unconstitutional.

Yes, the courts have actually had the audacity to uphold the law. Where Gonzales gets it wrong is that these judges are not "apply(ing) an activist philosophy that stretches the law to suit policy preferences," and they are certainly not trying to make policy judgements. They are simply making sure any policies made follow the law.

The courts are not telling us what we have to do, or even what we should do. They simply prevent what we can't do according to the Constitution. That's their job, and in a nation run by Gonzales and the rest of the Bush Administration we should be darn glad the founding fathers decided to create a third, independent branch.

If only Justice Stevens would point out that, though "a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country" like Gonzales said, the executive branch is hardly in the best position to fairly proclaim its own constitutional powers. Bush and Gonzales are the real activists.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

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Bush and Gonzales

Submitted by GlennG on Fri, 01/19/2007 - 11:21pm.

I just read your piece on Gonzales and I think he should step down for the good of the country and Bush is in dire need of professinal help.

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IT IS TIME TO IMPEACH

Submitted by rovinggrover on Wed, 01/17/2007 - 7:11pm.

WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS. This is what we are told from the first remembrances of CIVIC COOPERATION. WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS. We are conditioned to follow the laws of our communities, respectively. We are taught that hard working, honest, people that FOLLOW THE LAW are rewarded, and people that BREAK THE LAWS suffer consequences.
This band of TREASONOUS CRIMINALS have lied to get AMERICA into an ILLEGAL INVASION of A SOVERIEGN NATION, that had absolutely nothing to do with TERRORISM, PERIOD. They have set it up so that AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONIES are distributed amongst SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS by way of awarding NO BID CONTRACTS to the very companies that those EXECUTIVES were in charge of just prior to them taking their respective positions in this current administration.
This administration has TOTALLY DISCARDED OUR CONSTITUTION, and attempted to implement laws that will undoubtedly be found to be UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
This administration has constantly INTRUDED into the personal lives of ordinary citizens, breaking so many of our laws that one would have to consult an attorney just to know where to begin.
All of this and I haven't even gotten to THE OATH that these CRIMINALS all took to hold their respective positions in this current administration, which actually charges each and every one of those TRAITORS with the task of PROTECTING AND DEFENDING THE CONSTITUTION, not the PEOPLE, or THE CORPORATIONS.
Now I will add to the CULMINATION of CRIMES. That which is the most DISPICABLE.
The amount of AMERICAN BLOOD, which at last count stood at 3000 soldiers killed in action, not to mention the IRAQI BLOOD, which depending on whatever poll you choose to believe, ranges from approximately 45,000 INNOCENT CIVILIANS to over 600,000(IRAQI) people killed, pouring over the hands of those EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS of this CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.
This BAND of TREASONOUS CRIMINALS cannot be allowed to ESCAPE from OUR LAWS without being held ACCOUNTABLE for the crimes they have committed against the AMERICAN PEOPLE. They must also be made to stand for the HORRIFIC ATROCITIES committed against the country of IRAQ. IT IS TIME FOR IMPEACHMENT. AFTER ALL WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS.

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step by step

Submitted by roooth on Wed, 01/17/2007 - 6:59pm.

When will we get it through our heads that the election didn't change these people. No matter what, they will continue to do whatever the hell they want, until our White House is pried from their cold, dead fingers.

Courts won't stop them - they're packing the courts.

Congress won't stop them - they've changed the laws.

The military won't stop them - they've fired anyone who doesn't toe the line.

These are not people like you and me, they have no respect for the law or the Constitution and they will not give up their power willingly.

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