John Ashcroft on the PATRIOT Act

[eridani]

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/06/inv.ashcroft.hearing/

"To those who pit Americans against immigrants, citizens against non-citizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve," Ashcroft told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends. They encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.

Think about it. The man who said this was utterly repelled by the Bush NSA program--what in fucking hell was it actually doing?

[bluestateguy]

1. Scary when John Ashcroft seems like the reasonable one

nt

[ixion]

2. my thoughts exactly

:crazy:

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Right, if it was too crazy for crazy Jon how crazy was it?

Or, maybe Jon was just afraid that if things went south on that deal, there was no way saving his own flabby ass?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. stalin is proud of Abu Gonzales and Andy Card.

As well he should be.

[malaise]

5. So why didn't he act like a patriot and

condemn them publicly. He crawled off just like Colin Powell - one more traitor.

Sp.

[snappyturtle]

6. I've asked myself the same question: Why didn't they condemn

them publicly? What have these latter day patriots been afraid of? I don't think it's fear of losing their jobs. So what is it? The ONLY thing I can come up with is their lives were threatened....but if that was the case, wouldn't they still be afraid?