"We need honest, reasoned debate, not fear-mongering," Ashcroft said. "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. They give ammunition to to America's enemies and pause to America's friends."
I see.
So people who exercise their constitutional right to protest attacks on the Constitution are now considered Enemies of the State by the man whose primary job is to defend the Constitution.
Right.
No, I don't worry at all about this man being granted the power to investigate religious and political groups for exercising their free speech rights. Why do you ask? After all, by his very definition, if they protest government policy, they are Enemies of the State, right?
By the way, it turns out that Ashcroft's and George II Fraudulency's beloved military tribunals and plans to listen in on the Detained's conversations with their lawyers are direct violations of the Geneva Convention, to which we are a signatory. They really are, by definition, war crimes in and of themselves.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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