Politics: Disturbing
Attorney General John Ashcroft will go on a multi-city tour to promote the USA PATRIOT Act. This follows on the heels of Ashcroft's tour to promote the VICTORY act, which essentially makes drug crimes...more criminal, and ensures that any immigrants ensnared in any drug related activity immediately lose all their rights.
Obviously it is important that people show up wherever Ashcroft appears to sneer, rebuke and mock him. However, they probably won't, because they would be understandably concerned about having their rights removed indefinitely and ending up in a brig in South Carolina.
Normally, attorneys general travel the country to take credit for things, smiling with state AGs and state troopers and whatnot. I don't believe there is a long history of an attorney general going on the road to promote a law that has already been passed by the legislature and is in force. I can't imagine what misguided PR effort this represents. Does anyone in the Justice Department believe this is going to work? People aren't going to see John Ashcroft on television visiting their hometown, telling people that the Patriot Act is for their own good, and then say, "well, I used to be concerned about the Justice Department abusing my rights and destroying civil liberties in the name of the war on terror, but now I think that the patriotic thing to do is abandon those liberties for the good of the war on terror."
Idiots.
Attorney General John Ashcroft will go on a multi-city tour to promote the USA PATRIOT Act. This follows on the heels of Ashcroft's tour to promote the VICTORY act, which essentially makes drug crimes...more criminal, and ensures that any immigrants ensnared in any drug related activity immediately lose all their rights.
Obviously it is important that people show up wherever Ashcroft appears to sneer, rebuke and mock him. However, they probably won't, because they would be understandably concerned about having their rights removed indefinitely and ending up in a brig in South Carolina.
Normally, attorneys general travel the country to take credit for things, smiling with state AGs and state troopers and whatnot. I don't believe there is a long history of an attorney general going on the road to promote a law that has already been passed by the legislature and is in force. I can't imagine what misguided PR effort this represents. Does anyone in the Justice Department believe this is going to work? People aren't going to see John Ashcroft on television visiting their hometown, telling people that the Patriot Act is for their own good, and then say, "well, I used to be concerned about the Justice Department abusing my rights and destroying civil liberties in the name of the war on terror, but now I think that the patriotic thing to do is abandon those liberties for the good of the war on terror."
Idiots.
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