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January 31, 2005
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Action
Alert: from Evan Augustine Peterson
III, J.D., Januaury 26, 2005
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote
on US Attorney General appointee Alberto
Gonzales sometime TODAY, January 26. If the SJC confirms Mr. Gonzales,
the full Senate will vote on his appointment
early next week. Therefore, this morning
is your last chance to flood the SJC members with phone calls urging them
to vote against Mr. Gonzales! If you have to make your calls so
early in the morning that no Senators'
staffs will be in yet, you can always leave your
message on their voicemail.
I want these important calls to be easy
for you, so please see the "Notes" underneath
my signature line, which list: (A) the SJC's 18 members and their phone
numbers; and (B) 25 articles that present compelling reasons to oppose
the
Gonzales appointment.
Finally, it's worth noting that the Mexican
American Political Association now
publicly opposes Alberto Gonzales' USAG appointment (e.g., see http://www.mapa.org)!
With Heartfelt Thanks To Everyone Who Calls
The SJC This Morning,
Evan Augustine Peterson III, J.D.
Executive Director
American Center for International Law ("ACIL")
NOTES
A. Members Of The Senate Judiciary Committee
With Phone Numbers
Democrats
1. Minority Leader Sen. Patrick Leahy
(D-VT) at 202-224-4242.
2. Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) at 202-224-5042.
3. Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) at
202-224-2152.
4. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) at 202-224-5323.
5. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) at
202-224-3841.
6. Sen. Herbert Kohl (D-WI) at 202-224-5653.
7. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) at 202--224-4543.
8. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) at
202-224-6542.
Republicans
1. SJC Chairman Sen. Arlen Specter
(D-PA) at 202-224-4254.
2. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) at
202-224-3521.
3. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at 202-224-2934
(a waste of time).
4. Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) at 202-224-2752.
5. Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) at 202-224-2315.
6. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at
202-224-5972.
7. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) at
202-224-3744.
8. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) at 202-224-5251.
9. Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) at 202-224-4521
(a waste of time).
10. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) at 202-224-4124.
B. 25 Articles In Opposition To USAG Appointee
Gonzales
1. Madison Capitol Times' 1-25-05 CD editorial,
"Feingold should Rethink":
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0124-24.htm 2. Jonathan Schell's 1-20-05 CD essay, "What Is Wrong With Torture": 3. Eric Mink's 1-12-05 St. Louis Post-Dispatch
essay, "War On Terror: Grabbing Power, Losing Respect": http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/ericmink/story/2DC297C42BB554FB86256F8700380EC8? 4. Thom Hartmann's 1-11-05 CD essay, "First
They Came For The Terrorists": 5. Ted Rall's 1-12-05 CD/TR essay, "The Normalization Of Horror: American Gulags Become Permanent": http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0112-35.htm 6. Marie Cocco's 1-12-05 CD/Newsday essay, "Democrats' Fury And Values Go AWOL": 7. D. Lindley Young's 1-10-05 TMT essay, "Above The Law or Outside It: The Legal Limits Of Torture": http://www.themoderntribune.com/gonzalez_bush_u_s_policy_on_torture.htm 8. Andrew Sullivan's 1-9-05 TO essay, "Bush's
New Sheriff Reveals A Double Standard for Torture":
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1431300_1,00.html 9. Dick Meyer's 1-8-05 CD essay, "Senate
Democrats: Advise & Rubber Stamp": 10. Minneapolis Star-Tribune's 1-7-05 CD editorial, "Alberto Gonzales Has Blood On His Hands": http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0106-22.htm 11. New York Times' 1-7-05 editorial, "Mr.
Gonzales Speaks": 12. Bob Herbert's 1-7-05 NYT essay, "Promoting
Torture's Promoter":
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/opinion/07herbert.html?th 13. FP Law School Dean & Admiral John Hutton's (USN-Ret.) 1-6-05 Jurist essay, "Against Gonzales": http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2005/01/against-gonzales.php Also see Yale Law Dean Harold Koh's 1-6-05
"Testimony To The SJC" (download it at this URL): http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Public_Affairs/551/yls_article.htm
14. Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern's 1-6-05
CD essay, "It's Not Only Illegal, It's Wrong": 15. FC Law Professor Brian Foley's 1-6-05
CP essay, "Supporting Torture Is Not Gonzales' Worst Sin: A Contempt for
Civil Rights": http://www.counterpunch.com/foley01062005.html
16. Jim Lobe's 1-5-05 CD article, "50 Civil Rights Groups Express Concerns About Alberto Gonzales' Civil Rights Record": http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0106-03.htm 17. Evan Augustine Peterson III's 1-5-05
VH essay, "Unfinished Business: Confirming Bush's USAG Appointee Is Unthinkable": http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=24173
18. The Nation's 1-5-05 essay, "Oppose
The Gonzales Nomination": 19. Robert Scheer's 1-5-05 CD/LAT essay, "Backing Gonzales is Backing Torture": 20. Maria Blanco's 1-2-05 SFC Essay, "Not
In My Name: Latino Appointee Does Not Appeal": 21. Daily Kos' 12-28-04 essay, "Why We
Must Oppose Alberto Gonzales For AG":
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/30/1346/1697 22. Nat Hentoff's 12-3-04 TO/VV essay, "Alberto Gonzales, Torture & Death": 23. Evan Augustine Peterson III's 11-30-04
NFNZ essay, "Why The USA Must Reject Bush's 'Marquis De Sade' Nominee
For Attorney General": http://nuclearfree.lynx.co.nz/gonzales.htm
24. UIUC Law Professor Francis Boyle's 11-18-04 CP essay, "War Criminal For Attorney General?": http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle11182004.html Also see the related "Nüremberg Principles"
-- and especially Principle VII:
http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-nurem.htm 25. Bernard Weiner's 6-15-04 CP essay, "No Other Way To Say This: Torture Memos Reveal Fascist Mentality": http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/fascist.htm
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