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Subject: If Justice Dept Officials Refuse to Testify, TORTURE Them
TORTURE HER!
by David Michael Green
March 27, 2007 at 15:26:58
http://www.opednews.com/articles/
opedne_david_mi_070327_torture_her_21.htm
So Monica Goodling doesn’t want to answer questions on Capitol
Hill, eh?
This top official in the Justice Department, who serves as its
liaison to the White House, is now refusing to answer any
congressional questions about the US attorneys scandal. You know,
the one in which George and Dick and Karl and Alberto have been
hiring and firing federal prosecutors based on their willingness to
politicize the legal system. That scandal (it’s so hard to keep
track of them these days).
Her lawyer says that Goodling doesn’t actually have anything to
hide, but rather that – just like the judicial travesty that
recently took down Scooter Libby – a "hostile and questionable
environment" has surrounded the case. As opposed to the good kind
of investigations, you see, where the White House doesn’t bother to
answer the friendly questions that Congress and the press don’t
bother to ask. You know, like the last six years or so.
So Goodling’s lawyer has just announced that his client will be
invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination –
even though, mind you, she didn’t do anything wrong! – rather than
testifying to Congress.
Fifth Amendment? Fifth Amendment? You mean like, the Bill of
Rights? That Fifth Amendment?
Doesn’t she know that the Fifth Amendment has been suspended?
Doesn’t she know that all those amendments have been suspended?
Doesn’t she know that the president considers that whole document
that these amendments amend to be "just a goddamed piece of paper"?
She’s joking here, right? I thought she worked for the Justice
Department in the Bush administration? Hasn’t she heard?
Or maybe she’s still waiting for her interoffice mail from the last
five years to clear NSA.
Boy, is she gonna be surprised. We all know how committed the Bush
people are to protecting the country from evildoers.
Next thing you know, little Miss Monica Goodling is going to find
herself bound and gagged, and on a short but very uncomfortable
flight to Guantánamo.
And that’s if she’s lucky. If not, she’ll be getting a wee taste of
extraordinary rendition to some place like Egypt or Syria. Those
fellas know how to make a gal sing! Lemme tell ya, brother, there
aren’t any pesky amendments in Syria, and there never were.
I hope Ms. Goodling doesn’t think that her attorney will get the
charges dropped for her. In fact, she won’t be having an attorney.
I hope she doesn’t think that the evidence she presents will
exonerate her. In fact, she won’t be presenting any.
I hope she doesn’t think there will be a fair trial before a jury
of her peers. In fact, she’s gonna be rotting away in a dank cell
somewhere, never even charged with any actual offense.
And she can forget about making a habeas corpus appeal, too. Even
though it was considered for centuries to be one of the great
traditions of Western jurisprudence, Dear Leader knew better than
that and had the foresight to eliminate it, so that evildoers
couldn’t get away on some minor legal technicality like unlawful
imprisonment.
Habeas corpus? Ancient history. Just like all the rest of that
Latin mumbo-jumbo. Bag ‘em and tag ‘em are the legal lyrics we sing
these days. This president’s a (nearly real) Texan! Don’t mess with
Texas!
Squeamish lily-livered liberals and their bleeding-heart fellow
travelers might not like it, but I’m sure the president wants to
get to the bottom of this just as much as he’s wanted to solve the
puzzle of who outed Valerie Plame (which he will, I assure you, as
soon as he can locate that scrap of paper with Dick Cheney’s phone
number on it).
That’s bad news for Ms. Goodling, because that whole annoying
Geneva Protocol thing has now been determined to be both "quaint"
and "obsolete" (didn’t Alberto tell you?).
Uh-Oh. That means the t-word, I’m afraid. But, look, you gotta do
what you gotta do to win the war on evildoers.
So I say, torture her! Hell yes.
If I know anything about this president, I know he won’t be afraid
to attach electrodes to her genitals and make her scream a little.
I know that he’ll waterboard her until she gives up the guilty
parties (though certain names may have to be redacted, of course,
but we have people for that).
I know that nothing so quaint and obsolete as mere international
treaties or constitutional provisions will stop our unfaltering
crusader for justice from getting to the bottom of this obvious
threat to our way of life.
And I know that once he has everything he needs from her forced
confession, he’ll have just the people in place as US attorneys to
prosecute this evildoer. (But, of course, why bother at that point?)
Fifth Amendment rights. That’s rich. We haven’t had that around
these parts since nigh about the twentieth century. Next I suppose
she’ll be claiming that her preordained death sentence is cruel and
unusual punishment! Talk about quaint and obsolete.
Fifth Amendment rights. Hah! What does she think this is, the old
United States of America?
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David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra
University in New York. He is delighted to receive readers'
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