Will Pitt on the Treason of Alberto Gonzales, et al.

[puebloknot]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082707R.shtml

The departure of Alberto Gonzales from the Attorney General's Office brings America to a place of definitions, and hanging in the balance is the very idea of the nation itself. The basic concepts and fundamental principles of our republic now stand as the only legitimate considerations going forward, for they have been tested almost to annihilation already, and will not endure much longer if we continue on this path.

It is the mythology within the Declaration of Independence we speak of, the fiction that tells us we are endowed with rights, and that those rights are unalienable. This falsehood has been vividly exposed in the last several years, and it has been a harsh lesson indeed. All the rights we hold dear and believe to be our greatest strength are, in fact, only words on old paper with neither force nor power. The next line - "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" - is the muscle behind the myth, the core that has endured a withering assault.

Matters are so much worse than our national political dialogue lets on. The resignation of Gonzales has unleashed a torrent of hard words and harsh criticisms aimed at the deplorable nature of his tenure, but the truth of it continues to elude mention. They call Gonzales an incompetent, a crony, a loyalist, a disgrace, leaving off the one word necessary to fully explain who he is, and what he was engaged in before he stepped down.

Alberto Gonzales is a traitor. That is the only word to explain it.

William Rivers Pitt is right: "Matters are so much worse than our national political dialogue lets on."

[Totally Committed]

1. Kick because Alberto IS a traitor!

TC

[calimary]

12. K&R because gonzo IS a traitor.

Let's not mince words here. Let's call it/him what it/he is. Thanks, Will, wherever you are! Yet again, for the umpteenth time, you've nailed it.

[Trajan]

2. Kick for Will and the truth .....

We miss you William ..... Take Care, and thanks ....

[H2O Man]

3. Nominated.

Very good. Thank you for posting it.

[Cha]

4. Yeah, because the corporatemediawhores

are not reporting like Truthout, commondreams, buzzflash, et al.

"William Rivers Pitt is right: "Matters are so much worse than our national political dialogue lets on."

[bleever]

5. He's right.

Things won't be made right, until things can be called by their real names.

Recommended with gratitude.

[puebloknot]

7. Vincent Bugliosi said, in 2001: None Dare Call It Treason.

And treachery upon treachery has been added to the brew since then.

[bleever]

9. Will we settle for winning the next election cycle,

and let the truth be conveniently buried?

Are we too polite to call it treason, for fear of offending the Hannities and Limbaughs, the Roves and DeLays, and provoking a backlash against overreaching?

Or will we tell the truth, knowing truth to be the strongest weapon when wielded with conviction and vigor?

It's a serious question of conscience, coming around yet again. Notwithstanding the Warren Commission, the Iran-Contra investigation, and the 9/11 Commission, I hope (as I know you do) that political expediency doesn't intervene to weaken our republic at a critical point in history.

[puebloknot]

15. Yes! The Big Question: Truth or Political Expediency

The irony, in my mind, is that our best hope for winning the next election cycle (assuming we actually have a fair and honest election), is for a candidate with integrity to just flat stand up and tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. It's naive, I suppose, to think that, given all the corporate money that poisons the well.

Edwards seems to be trying; Kucinich has always, in my view, told it like it is. It will be a bitter pill to swallow if we see yet another charade of an election, and the country going down the road to its end, as we have known it.

I want my country back, even though there was always an element of fantasy for us all about America being the land of the free. It was certainly truer a few years back than it is now.

[puebloknot]

6. Thanks, all. Will Pitt is one of our brightest lights, an important writer!

[Hissyspit]

8. Gonzales is a conspirator.

All the incompetence, corruption, political tomfoolery is the result of the continued conspiracy to undermine the Constitution and create a totalitarian one-party rule based on radical anti-democracy Neo-Con ideology. That's what it's all about. And the MSM misses this.

[yodermon]

10. A choice quote

"Gonzales and his Bush administration collaborators have committed their treason against the rule of law itself, a crime so absolute that it is technically not illegal."

[NoFederales]

11. Liar, Enabler, Conspirator, Traitor! And as the little bastard walks into the west,

setting sun and all, his deeds go unreported, ignored, and uncorrected by a fucking Congress of elected Politicians. What a joke this Republic has become.

Turn'em all out and start over, eh?

NoFederales

[puebloknot]

16. Second the motion. How do we turn them all out?

My forebears helped to found this country, fought in the Revolutionary War with distinction. My father fought this kind of sheist in Europe in WWII. I'm glad he's not alive to see this joke of a Republic!

[onewholaughsatfools]

13. it's nice to see will kicking it again

Will is one of the best writers I have ever read. Keep up the good work

[puebloknot]

17. Yes, indeed. Several of us posted this same piece.

Reading William Rivers Pitt's work at Truthout has lessened my political/philosophical loneliness for a long time, before I even found DU. I don't agree with his every utterance, but I greatly respect his work.

[wiggs]

14. Matter and so much worse. True. What we know is the tip of the iceberg. nt

[Time for change]

18. Great article, thank you

There is one sentence that I really don't get:

"There is no code, ordinance or law specifically forbidding the total ruination of all our rights and protections."

No, not one law, but a great many laws. And that doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the article. And in any event, treason itself is also against the law, and certainly warrants much more than impeachment.