As reported in the water cooler comment thread, Alberto Gonzales is due in Boise tomorrow (Tuesday, June 26). If that makes you sick to your stomach, you are in good company. A protest is planned outside the Fort Boise Community Center, where the disgraced attorney general is set to arrive shortly before 2 p.m. As Jim Hansen writes at the United Action for Idaho blog:
It appears this visit is designed to show that people in communities like Boise, Idaho support Gonzales and Bush's policies. They have kept the visit quiet as long as they could to ensure a bare minimum of publicity. They need to take pretty pictures back to DC to show that America really does support Gonzales, even though millions of people are calling for his resignation or impeachment and for a repudiation of the Bush administration's torture and domestic surveillance policies.
It is interesting to note that Gonzales is not even meeting with our Governor. That is probably because when he was a Congressman, (Butch) Otter was one of the strongest opponents of the deceptively-named "USA PATRIOT ACT", an act that President Bush and his AG are using to undermine over 100 years of protected civil rights in this country.
There's more here.
Update, Tuesday afternoon: Former Democratic congressional candidates gathered in Boise today to say Gonzales should resign.
By simply posting someting on my blog and sending out a few e-mails, I guess we've created a bit of a stir. I hope folks will come with their flags waving to show them we take the words "Liberty and Justice for ALL" quite seriously here in Idaho and expect our Justice Department to do so as well.
Posted by: Jim Hansen | June 26, 2007 at 09:29 AM
Jim, this is definitely getting buzz. You just made the midday thread at Daily Kos.
I will be there by 2:30 and plan to post a diary here and at Kos this evening.
Posted by: Julie in Boise | June 26, 2007 at 02:05 PM
I've been keeping Americablog and firedoglake updated.
Be looking out for the updates.
Posted by: Kitt | June 26, 2007 at 04:42 PM
Julie, good job you and Jim in getting the rally together. Of course, mcjoan would have disowned us if we didn't show!
Posted by: merdie mccarter | June 26, 2007 at 06:12 PM
Posted by: merdie mccarter | June 26, 2007 at 06:12 PM
Whoops! Sorry to send that comment twice. I have been "pimping" your diary on some Dkos diaries, and so far have avoided a troll rating.
;-)
Posted by: merdie mccarter | June 26, 2007 at 06:17 PM
Thanks, Merdie!
Posted by: Julie in Boise | June 27, 2007 at 07:49 AM
Kitt, you, too, for spreading the word!
Posted by: Julie in Boise | June 27, 2007 at 07:49 AM
Hey,Jules, check out the War Room over at Salon. We got a mention, w/ a quote from Gonzo.
Posted by: merdie mccarter | June 28, 2007 at 11:31 AM