The Senate vote to approve Michael Mukasey as torturer in chief – Attorney General – of the Bush regime is set to happen November 6. This is a landmark moment; stark choices confront everyone in this country.
Torture has been brazenly legitimized and institutionalized by the political leadership of this country. A man who has all but announced his intention to continue to find legal justification for torture – though perhaps he will rename and redefine it – is poised to maintain and develop the policies of torture, “out sourced torture” (a.k.a. “rendition”), preventative detention, secret trials, and the other police state measures put in place by Bush and his previous Attorneys General. Leading and influential Senate Democrats have announced their intention to approve Mukasey, thus declaring their support for continuing the policies of torture.
Mukasey is intended to be the latest butcher in expensive suits and
with well polished legal jargon to join the Bush administration. But no
amount of evasive talk can conceal the reality of what these people are
– they are torturers, they have organized mass destruction and murder
on a staggering scale, they are soaking a huge swath of the world in
blood and are threatening to do more. All this is being done in the
name of the “safety and security of the American people”.
Resistance and repudiation to everything Bush and his regime represent
is urgently needed throughout all society. DECLARE IT NOW, WEAR ORANGE,
DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME.