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U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft Resigns
andyring writes "In a move that will undoubtedly make many /. readers jump for joy (although perhaps not myself), Attorney General John Ashcroft announced he will resign, according to multiple news sources. While many here dislike him, others have more favorable opinions of him. He became the point man on the USA Patriot Act, which typically ignites harsh opinions on both sides of the aisle."
Reader cnsc1rtr , referring to the AP's version of the story, writes "He gave Bush a five-page, handwritten letter in which he stated, 'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.'"
FUCK YOU ASHCROFT! GET THE FUCK OUTTA THERE, YOU NAZI PIG FUCKER!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(lameness filter encountered. post aborted! reason: don't uses so many caps, it's like yelling)
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
W. can read? wow respect
The only question now is whether Giuliani will take the job as Bush Enforcer, or wait to be installed as a Supreme Court Justice. He'll probably go for Enforcer, because he's used to running a "Chief Prosecutor for Emperor" race, setting him up comfortably for 2008. Unless Sir Giuliani runs afoul of the Constitution:
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
" No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."
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make install -not war
The Bush tax cuts HELP the middle class, or are you so dumb you can't even read the IRS stats? To wish gloom and doom on your own country is just totally sick. You also take a VERY short-sighted view of things. A stable Iraq will be very helpful in the long run in the Middle East. What if we had just left Germany and France all alone after WWII like we did after WWI, we might be fighting THERE right now. Kids these days playing on the parents PC's and posting to /...Sheesh..
Revengefully lighting a place on fire and watching its inhabitants burn isn't enforcing the law--it's setting an example for those who would consider resisting (regardless of the validity of the reason) in the future.
I would have no problem with the Waco incident if the police had killed only the men resisting, but they didn't. Their actions killed EVERYBODY. If John Ashcroft had done the same, liberals would be screaming Nazi analogies and for impeachment of Bush himself. And for the first time, they would be right in doing so.
-Grym
your first two points are not counter points as to the reasons for the patriot act, in fact, they are reasons FOR the patriot act.
so, what was your point in responding to them?
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
to *drafting*, using USDOJ resources the USA-PATRIOT Act,
Oh please. If he wrote it, how come John Kerry spent years trying to get Title IV of it passed as various different bills? Was he a puppet of John Ashcroft the entire time?
Yeah, sure, right, whatever, and Bush's jet landing and the world wide broadcast of same in front of the banner was obviously not meant to refer to the Iraq war.
Take a hike, you fascist.
'The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.'
No doubt inspired by his evil master's stunt when he said 'Mission accomplished', and about as true.
I have rarely seen a more unsavoury character than John Ashcroft - the kind of person that combines powerlust and unlimited ambition with narrowminded intolerance and smallishness. He will not be missed.
But the big - and frightening - question is: who have they been able to find that is worse? I can't imagine the Bush administration replacing this icon of hate-driven hypocrisy with a better (as in more open-minded) person.
Gonzalez to replace Ashcroft. This guy is a madman. He "fought with Congress to keep the details of Vice President Dick Cheney's energy commission meetings secret and defended the administration's right to detain terrorism suspects indefinitely without formal charges and to deny them access to counsel or to protection from the court system".
Do not celebrate just yet. You may soon wish Ashcraft back.
Every time I think the world cannot get any more fucked, it does.