No on Gonzales

There is a statement currently posted on the big liberal Democratic blog site, The Daily Kos. I am joining the many bloggers calling on U.S. Senators to do the right thing: speak out and vote against Alberto Gonzales, president Bush's nominee for Attorney General. He is largely resonsible for the Bush administration's torture policy, and arguing that the president has the authority to ignore the Constitution, U.S. laws and international treaties. Some people are saying, "where is the outrage?" Here it is:

"Unprecedented times call for unprecedented actions. In this case, we, the undersigned bloggers, have decided to speak as one and collectively author a document of opposition. We oppose the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to the position of Attorney General of the United States, and we urge every United States Senator to vote against him."

"As the prime legal architect for the policy of torture adopted by the Bush Administration, Gonzales's advice led directly to the abandonment of longstanding federal laws, the Geneva Convention, and the United States Constitution itself. Our country, in following Gonzales's legal opinions, has forsaken its commitment to human rights and the rule of law and shamed itself before the world with our conduct at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. The United States, a nation founded on respect for law and human rights, should not have as its Attorney General the architect of the law's undoing..."

Read the rest of this important statement here:

And act now.