Gonzales Goes Missing

American Spectator ^ | 03/28/05 | The Prowler

[ninenot]

If you really think that the locals would choose to shoot it out with the USMarshal, or the Marines, you need your Prozac.

[hispanichoosier]

If you really think that the locals would choose to shoot it out with the USMarshal, or the Marines, you need your Prozac.

Not choose, but who knows what happens when tempers are high and all parties are operating on little sleep?

[edsheppa]

Please spare me the hysteria. You expect me to believe that local law enforcement officers would fight to prevent execution of a summons?

[B Knotts]

OK...show of hands. Who didn't see this coming?

[international american]

Nothing would have happened. Cops have an IQ too. And they don't shoot at one another.

[hispanichoosier]

So, allowing the rule of the gun--whether a shootout occurred or local law enforcement backed down--is okay in America now?

[SausageDog]

"Most of us recall that Gonzales was no hero on the life issues during his term as a Texas judge."

What an understatement. He was a screeching, screaming, howling pro-abort.

[edsheppa]

Don't put words in my mouth. What's OK in America is the rule of law. Local law enforcement would not oppose federal officials executing a legal summons to appear before congress.

[Poohbah]

And before I forget, to tie this back to the article, why didn't AG Gonzales send a top team to make arguments in the case?

First, I didn't realize that the US government's role was to act as an advocate for specific private plaintiffs in civil cases. Where in the Constitution do you find that?

Second, a top team volunteered to help the Schindlers. They turned them down flat.

[mountaineer]

There's probably a Christian Identity website where they'd love your comment.

[Mark in the Old South]

Excuse me but I seem to remember a few of you Freepers complaining about the prolife Freepers complaints about the new AG. We can see what your opinions were worth.

[ninenot]

Excuse me, but I never endorsed Gonzales. NEVER.

I was well aware of his shortcomings (I do subscribe to Human Events...)

[hchutch]

They just have to be typed up by someone... :)

[1rudeboy]

Yet law-abiding scholars write:
Law is neither wrong nor right,
Law is only crimes
Punished by places and by times,
Law is the clothes men wear
Anytime, anywhere,
Law is Good morning and Good night.

Others say, Law is our Fate;
Others say, Law is our State;
Others say, others say
Law is no more,
Law has gone away.

And always the loud angry crowd,
Very angry and very loud,
Law is We,
And always the soft idiot softly Me.

W.H. Auden (excerpt)

[Mark in the Old South]

I was not referring to you. I was addressing the general Free Republic community. You were the one who posted so I figured you did not approve of him, but the "you" I was referring was a plural you not singular.

[edsheppa]

Second, a top team volunteered to help the Schindlers. They turned them down flat.

Didn't know that. Who?

As for the other, it is certainly not uncommon for the federal government (state governments too) to enter briefs in cases to which they are not a party. In fact, I'd say they have a duty to if there are public interests at stake as in this case.

[mountaineer]

That really is the lamest comeback since George Costanza said, "Oh yeah? Well the jerk store called and they're out of you!"

[econ_grad]

Yours was pretty lame yourself.

[azhenfud]

"You actually had Arlen Specter and his Judiciary Committee out there trying to save this woman's life, and then you have Alberto Gonzales and his crew over at Justice basically putting up roadblocks," says a White House staffer. "This was not a good way for Gonzales to start his tenure there."

Gonzales was actually putting roadblocks in front of those trying to save Terri.