AG Gonzales takes questions re: Military Commissions Act at 4 p.m. Wed.

[Efilroft Sul]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/question.html

What would you like the AG to put on the record?

My question: In 2001, the president said the terrorists hate us for our freedoms. So why did the Bush administration gut the Magna Carta, the United States Constitution, and the Geneva Conventions to establish a dictatorship here in America?

Come on, people. We should have a jillion questions to mock them.

[sakabatou]

1. Why would you stop almost 800 years of law?

[MoonRiver]

2. "Everything changed after 9/11."

Didn't you get the memo? :shrug:

[acmavm]

3. I'd ask why, when he was 'inagurated', did bush** even bother

to swear to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the laws of this land. He's done neither.

[katinmn]

4. Gonzo mocks the framers of the Constitution

He worships Bush.

He isn't worth the time.

BTW, I have participated in some of these ask the WH staff "interactive" forums.
They choose which questions to answer so they can make their case in the best light possible.

Also, I'd rather make slimeball Gonzo work for my IP number.

[Ninja Jordan]

5. does the 'Act' apply to US citizens?

Sec. 948c. Persons subject to military commissions

Any alien unlawful enemy combatant is subject to trial by military commission under this chapter.

...

Sec. 948a. Definitions

(5) ALIEN- The term 'alien' means an individual who is not a citizen of the United States.

[hlthe2b]

6. We ( & our allies) prosecuted Japanese for water boarding in WWII...

Now you and the administration have approved and fought to do the same. What do you say to the rest of the world, horrified by these moves?

[Supersedeas]

7. Are all interrogation techniques that fail to cause major organ failure

consistent with the 'quaint' terms of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions??