Here's a thought for senators with a spine and a brain: tell Abu Gonzales to go fuck himself in the most tactful beltway-speak you know. Why? Well, he wants to ratchet up the police state Patriot Act more than the Senate wants to. And let's face it, Gonzales claim to fame besides endangering the lives of future (and present) soldiers with his reading of the Geneva Convention should automatically disqualify him from having input on legislation concerning any Civil Liberties. He's a hack lawyer, who's where he is because of his uncanny ability to lick Preznit Bonesman's Boner clean as a whistle on command.
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales yesterday criticized a Senate bill that would place new restrictions on law enforcement in the USA Patriot Act, saying the legislation would hamper the government's ability to prevent terrorist attacks.
Gonzales, during a meeting with editors and reporters at The Washington Post, said he favors a competing House version of the antiterrorism law that includes fewer restrictions on the government.
Because we all know from back in the bad old days of Nixon how circumspect the Federal Government is when granted unsupervised power to snoop on Americans it doesn't like.
Sixteen provisions of the controversial Patriot Act, which Congress voted overwhelmingly to enact weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, are due to expire at the end of this year unless Congress acts. Although most of the law would become permanent under either bill, the Senate legislation includes tighter restrictions on the FBI's power to seize business records and would place a four-year time limit on two of the law's most controversial provisions.
Gonzales said yesterday that the Senate bill's tighter provisions would make it too difficult for investigators to conduct secret searches or obtain "roving wiretaps" in terrorism investigations. He also said the threshold for obtaining business records, including those held by libraries, would be set too high by the Senate bill.
You know, it's really the height of hubris to suggest that the government needs more powers because he says so. The Patriot Act is already an affront to the Fourth Amendment, and 200-plus years of the republic. The "terrorism" shit he talks about are already provided for in law, they just require more work than lazy frat boys like Abu Gonzales and his boss want to do to use them...like actually funding proper investigative resources, which would mean, oh I don't know, raising taxes?
In years to come Gonzales will be judged for the hack he is. When kids of the future learn about the people who tried to ruin the republic whole chapters will be written on Abu Gonzales, the man who hates soldiers and Beloved Leader, the man who sends them off to die, to prove he has a bigger dick than his daddy.
