Gonzo Humble Like St. Peter

The Cross of St. Peter is an inverted Latin cross. The origin of this symbol comes from the Catholic tradition that St. Peter was crucified upside down, as he felt he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner that Christ died (upright). It is often used with two keys, symbolizing the keys of heaven.

The Alexandrian scholar Origen is the first to report that St. Peter was crucified head downward, for he had asked that he might suffer in this way'. Some Catholics use this cross as a symbol of humility and unworthiness in comparison to Christ.

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All of this begs the question, WTF does Gonzales mean by this. It's one thing to wear the flag on your lapel, but Alberto Gonzales is just 2 kewl for skewl.

Consider.

St. Peter's Cross now adorns memos authorizing torture, domestic surveillance, assasination attempts, denials of habeus corpus and outrageous claims to Executive Privilege & Power. Had Gonzales adopted this quaint habit when he was regularly advising Bush to deny clemency to Texas inmates on deathrow under sympathetic circumstances?

It's as if Presentdent Bush substituted a little christian fish for the W. in his name.

The artist formerly known as Prince caused a splash when he changed his name to a symbol, but it is unlikely he was Abu's inspiration. Admittedly, it is hard to swallow St. Peter as an inspiration either given Mr. Gonzales track record of perfidy.

If Abu wanted to add a little truth in advertising, I suggest he replace Gonzales with;