Bloggers coming together to take a stand against Gonzales!

[sarahlee]

Check this out - Posted at the PDA blog:

From Daily Kos, signed by all past and present Kos management, and a growing host of other blogs, including this one. Excerpts follow, read the whole thing. Kos gets millions of hits and is probably the foremost liberal/leftie blog and will take serious hits and attacks because of this. Let’s support him.

Quote:
No on Gonzales. 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.

With this nomination, we have arrived at a crossroads as a nation. Now is the time for all citizens of conscience to stand up and take responsibility for what the world saw, and, truly, much that we have not seen, at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. We oppose the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States, and we urge the Senate to reject him.

http://blog.progressivevote.org/index.php?p=190

[sarahlee]

1. This is the Grassroots coming together to . . .

help foil Bush and just say NO to torture. Come on folks - lets help out by spreading the word to other progressive websites and blogs!

Lets BE THE MEDIA!

Add your support with a post here or a comment on the Kos or PDA blogs.

[Goldeneye]

2. You should post it at velvetrevolution...they've got a good list of blogs

working together. It would help get the word out.

[Vincardog]

7. I signed it what did you comment?

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[sarahlee]

12. I've posted it at a dozen sites . . .

Sent email to other blog owners and my friends. If you could help by posting at velvetrevolution that would be great!

[Jo March]

3. kick nt

[Acryliccalico]

5. kick n/t

[stepnw1f]

4. Sign The Petition

Pass the link around. Jeez I'm exhuasted....
http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings/forward/d5esnd4hjmx336


Kudos to my fellow DUers for actually changing the political landscape for GOOD!

[sarahlee]

6. Thanks

I signed the petition as soon as it was up. And posted it at the Kucinich forum and passed it around to just about everyone I know. (and some I did not know that well)

[KissMeKate]

8. a vote for Gonzales is a vote for torture.

plain and simple.

This will be the IWR for the next democratic primary.

"He voted for Gonzales- I opposed." - said in the primary.

"Why are you criticising Bush's policy? you approved Bush's attorney general!"- said in the presidential debate.

[peacetalksforall]

9. A vote for Gonzales is a declaration that we are torturers.

He manipulated the law to win one for torture.

Remember the crap we went through for years when Clinton said - it depends on what is is - in relation to a sex lie cover-up. He didn't even manipulate the law and the constitution or world treaties and you would have thought the world ended because the White House was 'disgraced', they said.

Well, torture is a desgrace. We are disgraced.

Brought by Gonzales in a little gift to Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the cabal.

[hangloose]

10. signed, commented, kicked

[theresistance]

11. Human Rights Watch is also against Gonzales

see at: http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2005/01/24/usdom10064.htm

[sarahlee]

13. Good reminder

I sent emails to their CA offices with the link so they would know what is going on.

Thanks for making me think of it. The Shalom Center has written 3 articles in opposition, so I sent them the link as well.

[theresistance]

16. I tried to send an email to that address

but I got an error message. Not sure what happened.

[sarahlee]

14. Update

Update III: Chelsea Green Publishing is giving away free copies of the book "Guantanamo: What the World Should Know" to all blogs who join the call to vote "no" on Gonzales.

Email Margo Baldwin at [e-mail] with your blog name, URL of post urging the "no" vote, and address.

[w4rma]

15. This guy should be stopped. Filibustered. Whatever it takes to keep him

out of power. The heck with the precedent that idjot Repukes will say they take this as for when there is a Democratic President. They'll make up something anyways, so it doesn't really matter what they think is being set as a precedent.

Our international allies need to know that even if Republicans support torture, Democrats do NOT support torture. This will be very important when/if Dems are able to take back power over our government. We don't have control over what the Repukes do or their integrety, but we have FULL control over our own.

[sarahlee]

17. The world needs to know that AMERICANS

do not accept torture as the norm. Which gives me an idea. I am going to send that link to some international reporters.

[w4rma]

18. Yeah, well Repugs are in the majority and it appears they support torture.

Even if most Americans don't know that Repugs support torture. The way to show that Americans don't support torture is by showing that WE Democrats don't support torture and then taking back control of the government. That's the only credible way I know of.

[sarahlee]

19. The Grassroots taking a stand

regardless of party will help.

We can't wait for the Party to take back the White House or the Congress or the Senate.

[sarahlee]

20. Calling all Furl and Delicious uses!

Here is a concept to tie all of these together.

We need to get everyone to Furl (http://www.furl.net/index.jsp ) and Delicious (http://del.icio.us /) all of these blogs together.

Use the same description: “Vote No on Gonzales. Vote No to Torture”

I hope all the bloggers are tagging the blogs for Technorati