Blogging the Mukasey Hearings

3 thoughts on “Blogging the Mukasey Hearings”

1. If, as I fully expect, this man is confirmed after having been unable to identify waterboarding as torture, yet another step will have been taken into the abyss, not that the MCA wasn’t enough to carry us over the edge. In this instance, the Democrats won’t have the excuse of claiming that a national policy endorsing torture was sprung on them.

   There is only one historical parallel that seems to fit this pattern: The behavior of Germany’s Centre Party immediately after Hitler’s accession to power in 1933. In that case, no effective opposition was ever voiced by the Centre Party leadership as first the Communists and Social Democrats were suppressed and later their own party apparatus was emasculated. They simply went along at every opportunity caving-in to each intimidation, much as have the Democrats in our case, until there was one and only one voice for every aspect of social and political life in Germany: The National Socialist German Workers Party.

   Mukasey is every bit as dangerous a man as was Gonzalez, and Gonzalez in his turn, not a bad imitation of Hans Frank. Old enough to have grandchildren, one wonders if he offers the same explanations to them as he did to Senator Whitehouse when asked if waterboarding amounts to torture. I would consider it an outrage to be “served” by anyone of Mukasey’s sentiments. Anyone capable effectively of enabling the treatment of another human being in this way has little right to claim human status for themselves. Must we tolerate the appointment of monsters at every turn with this Regime? Sadly, it would seem so.

   John Lowell

2. Congress better say no to Mukasey, if ever the Justice Department is to stand for American Justice for the American people.

3. Here again is the neo-con, zionist connection that we have
   seen in the folks that brought us the war in Iraq.Please I am
   Jewish so no rude comments . Everyone who is Jewish doesn’t believe that Israel is divinely given.

   Mus is also a liar –though far less smooth — than Alito and
   Roberts who assured the American people that they would make
   judgements based upon the law. Their behavior as Supremes has
   been well documented. When Muk said he didn’t know what
   waterboarding was,I laughed. He’s full of it.

   Now for a new definition of conservatism– a total
   misnomer for people like Muk. A conservative should be known
   as an upholder of our constitution rather than a destroyer
   such as Muk whose viewes is that of the Unitary president —
   a concoction of those who want to grab more out of the government by making it easier to have a strongman in place.

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