Embattled Attorney General Gonzales Uses Children As A "Human Shield" In Pathetic Attempt To Keep Job

As tacky and awful as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is, he found a new offensive way to attempt to keep his job as he began using children as a form of "human shield" as a justification to keep his job. While the U.S. Senate wants answers on the highly suspect firings of 8 prosecutors, Gonzales attempted to stonewall the entire matter by a phony pandering effort to appear as some great new found advocate for children on Thursday. Some of the very worst politicians have been known to appear to be the "best friend" that children have ever known to justify some of their sleazy images. This is nothing new.

Congress wants answers from the Attorney and others in this case. Yet Gonzales believes that if he acts busy right now with a new crusade for kids, then he can avoid his responsibility to answer Congress.

Gonzales is under fire for "cherry picking" 8 federal prosecutors to fire who were conducting active investigations of Republicans in Congress who may have been involved with defense contractor scandals such as the one that landed Congressman "Duke" Cunningham in a federal prison for taking bribes in exchange for lucrative defense contracts, and who did not find enough good evidence to prosecute some Democrats in claimed "voter fraud" cases. Gonzales also fired some prosecutors who refused to seek political moltivated prosecutions of obscenity cases. The fact of the matter is that many juries believe in the First Amendment and will not put someone in prison for marketing an offensive CD, book, movie or magazine. But the far right Gonzales, sought a national crusade against freedom of expression in the last year, with few prosecutors really interested in his personal moraity and politics crusade against offensive speech.

Gonzales wants Congress to believe that he is suddenly important and irreplaceable by suddenly appearing as a champion for children on Thursday with a cardboard backdrop claiming child protection. But just like Saddam Hussein who once made an offensive attempt to use tourist children as human shields to avoid an attack by the U.S. or world community after the 1990 Kuwait invasion, Gonzales has pulled a page from this same book of cowardice by launching a fake crusade to appear important. This is cynical trash of the worst variety from someone who should comply with the Congressional investigation and be forthright for a change.