Gonzales resigns, but torture, spying, and round-ups continue
By Sunsara Taylor Online Journal Contributing Writer
What’s up with a country where a torturer — and let’s call a spade a spade — an architect of a police state and fascist laws can be forced to resign and no one in a position of power calls for the reversal of everything he’s done and for his and his boss’s indictment for war crimes?
What’s up is a system that is so hell-bent on extending and preserving its empire that a police state that tortures is the program of the whole lot of them? That’s why the Democrats grandstand and garner political advantage over Gonzales’s resignation but have not and will not oppose the essence of his program.
And it is why the people must.
We do not have to — nor should we want to — live under a system that enforces its rule through waterboarding (near-drowning) and locking people away without charge or trial. A system that sets this as its norms is one that cries out for revolutionary change!
And right now, while the regime is in disarray — with first Rove and now Gonzales resigning — is the time for an “orange uprising,” an outpouring of resistance across this country by everyone who doesn’t want to condemn future generations to a fascist police state. Orange, because this is the color forced on the Guantanamo detainees and torture victims. And this “orange uprising” must not stop until the Bush regime and its program is driven from power. Whether you’re a revolutionary or not, you have to confront the fact that if the Bush regime is not driven from power, then everything Gonzales was part of will remain — the legalization and institutionalization of wire-tapping, torture, indefinite detentions and so much more — no matter who becomes the next president.
Far from being defanged, George Bush is still commander in chief and he is still pushing forward new horrors by the day. The Democrats — the majority in Congress and the line up of viable presidential contenders: Hillary, Barack and Edwards — are not challenging his fascist program in any of its essential features. [more]