{"id":3289,"date":"2007-08-28T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:07:10","slug":"burning-the-law-in-a-riot-of-treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/burning-the-law-in-a-riot-of-treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning the Law in a Riot of Treason"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>By William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Alberto Gonzales is a traitor. That is the only word to explain it.<\/p>\n

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