The statewide elections in California aren't until 2006. But Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown (the former Calfornia governor) is already running for the office of state attorney general.
In a fundraising letter dated June 22, he included this:
At the outset, I have to underline the unprecedented character of the times in which we are living. Never before have government lawyers dared to offer legal justifications for ignoring the Geneva Conventions. The attorney general himself [John Ashcroft] has gone so far as to categorize whole classes of people - even American citizens - as outside the protection of law. Such actions go way beyond even the notorious Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. As California's top legal officer, I will fight - with vigor and imagaination - such an assault on our liberty and the quality of our democracy.
I wonder if a state attorney general can have a war criminal arrested and sent directly to the International Criminal Court?
Imagine the possibilities...
And when Jerry Brown says he will be imaginative, his whole career shows that he ain't kidding.
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