American Injustice

This is why I do not trust the Mexican Government, or Mexican Technocrats for that matter, especially those who have attended or work at Ivy League Universities, (get the hint, Nerdedillo... Salinas... Fox?!) Check this guy out, who ran an economic thinktank at Yale and doublebilled for his travel expenses.

Anyways... whats new in my life... not much. All is good with the love life. Took my chiquita home for New Year's which we enjoyed, we hung out with Celia too, went to Bubba Gump's last weekend. I was hanging out with Arnold last weekend and he sliced his finger really badly while washing dishes, trying to help him find some insurance so he can have surgery to repair a damaged tendon.

Not much else is going on in the world of politics... Iraq seems to be getting worse by the minute. The funniest or saddest thing to look at from the past week, was the display put on at the confirmation hearings for Alberto Gonzales who met with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Gonzales as we all know, penned a memo in 2002 that countered policy protecting prisoners from torture in the Geneva Convention. This man, who wrote arguments supporting torture as just is on the fast track to being confirmed as the leading Law Enforcement Officer in this nation.

What kind of bullshit is this? If we hadn't already had a wonderful time watching John Ashcroft and his deputies stomp on the Bill of Rights, we will have an even better time watching Gonzales circumvent the quaint and obsolete Geneva Convention.

The hearing was a farce, with Lindsay Graham, (R-South Carolina) putting up a more reliable attack on Gonzales then most Democrats on the panel. I mean how can we conceivably be viewed as perveyors of Democracy when we ourselves use the tactics of our "despotic enemies." Graham put it in the most stark light when he said America was getting "cute" with its enemies.

The truth is, Gonzales is more then qualified to be Attorney General, however, he should be fundamentally rejected because his stance on these previous issues create not only a terrible image of America abroad and at home, but also could pose even greater threats to American Civil Rights then perhaps even the feared Ashcroft. But more then likely, Gonzales will be confirmed, and quite easily I am sure.

The sad truth is, Americans don't even register a bit of interest into these subjects, which have such fundamental effects on our lives.