OTOH – Gonzo, Cheney, et al may be proof that someone may have decreased culpability due to invicible ignorance.

Screw that. I used to spend hours trying to figure out if Bush and his various cronies were really, really stupid or really, really evil. I finally decided it doesn’t matter at all: their crimes must be treated as the heinous acts of treason that they are. Incompetence is no more of a moral defense than is malevolence.

You can’t figure it out ?

You must be one really , really great lawyer – than fine tuned ability for an****lytic thinking and all.

OTOH – Gonzo, Cheney, et al may be proof that someone may have decreased culpability due to invicible ignorance.

I know that President Bush has many extremely competent speech writers, but I would like to volunteer for the job myself. I propose the following short address, which he can make on television to the nation. I see him grave, hair carefully combed, serious, winning, sincere, often beguiling, sometimes employing a wry smile, curiously attractive, a man’s man.

“God is good. God is great. God is good. My god is good. Bin Laden’s god is bad. His is a bad god. Saddam’s god was bad, except he didn’t have one. He was a barbarian. We are not barbarians. We don’t chop people’s heads off. We believe in freedom. So does God. I am not a barbarian. I am the democratically elected leader of a freedom-loving democracy. We are a compassionate society. We give compassionate electrocution and compassionate lethal injection. We are a great nation. I am not a dictator. He is. I am not a barbarian. He is. They all are. I possess moral authority. You see this fist? This is my moral authority. And don’t you forget it.”

Harold Pinter, 1930-2008
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/31/harold_pinter_1930_2008_part_2

December 31st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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Torture is the job of nobody in a civilized and democratic society. Torture is only a legitimate profession in a fascist dictatorship.

There is absolutely no reason to torture anyone. Period. “Islamo-crazy” or “Jewo-crazy” or “Nazi-crazy” or anyone. Torture is pure evil.

I’ve got a job for Alberto. Cleaning toilets at Guantanamo.

No, no, How about being the person who REPAIRS the Qurans that are violated and defaced in the toilets in Gitmo.

Yes, spend your days fixing the things you made.

I wonder why none of the GOP stink tanks have hired him. Maybe they think he’s an illegal terrist brown person?

Hmmm,
Maybe the stink tanks are having a hard time finding his legitimacy of citizenship, since his parents were illegal immigrants. Hmmm, I wonder.

Dear Drew,
Are you calling George W. Bush a LIAR?
He claims the USA does NOT torture, yet you celebrate the use of torture as admitted by the Administration. Shame on you for calling Bush a LIAR… NO?

Look Drew, Americans used to be, I repeat, USED TO BE proud it’s country stood for high principles and morals that protected and fought for humane treatment of people, captured or free. But now that America prides itself on undermining these long standing principles and traditions, you’re all for that?

Drew, how do you sleep at night knowing you support unethical behavior? What God do you pray to that commends your support for such acts against your fellow man? How should the “GOLDEN RULE” be applied to people like you who cheer on evil?

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You can talk to your patron George W. Bush or Dick Cheney to give you a job starting January 20th. I’m sure they would oblige.

Personally, I think you are fortunate to have retained your law license this long.

If a guy like this can become a state Supreme Court Justice, we need to clean out the American judicial barn ASAP.

As Governor Bush’s counsel in Texas, Gonzales also reviewed all clemency requests. A 2003 article in The Atlantic Monthly asserts that Gonzales gave insufficient counsel, and failed to second-guess convictions and failed appeals. Only one death sentence was over-turned by Governor Bush, and the state of Texas executed more prisoners during Gonzales’ term than any other state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Gonzales

We can’t have creeps like this involved in legal life and death decisions about American citizens.

- Tom