Good Riddance to John Ashcroft
Good riddance to one of the worst Attorneys General in US history. The man is so creepily paranoid that he handwrote his resignation letter, lest his secretary might turn out to be a terrorist and leak the news to Osama, thereby giving him a one week jump on plotting his next attack.
In his missal Ashcroft trumpeted that he has achieved for America a great deliverance from evil, "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved...." Really? No crime and no terror? In just four years. Of course, the previous span of American homeland freedom from Osama terror was eight years, from 1993, one month after George the 1st left and Clinton took office to 9/11/2004, eight months after George the 2nd arrived.
Ashcroft’s litigation score card as AG has been abysmal. For all the excesses of the Patriot Act and all the illegal tactics pursued by Ashcroft, he has only the convictions of the Lackawana students who went to Afghanistan to see the camps and then came back disillusioned and did nothing. No successful prosecutions, just lots of illegal detentions. He has made more law by being sued - and by losing suits. Just yesterday a right of center US Supreme Court rejected, 9-0, the Ashcroft attempted illegal application of a deportation statute designed to target violent perpetrators of intentional crimes.
With his health cited as the reason for leaving, Ashcroft should stay out of governmental affairs and spend his time performing before Evangelical groups the beloved - by him anyway - hymns he writes.
In his missal Ashcroft trumpeted that he has achieved for America a great deliverance from evil, "The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved...." Really? No crime and no terror? In just four years. Of course, the previous span of American homeland freedom from Osama terror was eight years, from 1993, one month after George the 1st left and Clinton took office to 9/11/2004, eight months after George the 2nd arrived.
Ashcroft’s litigation score card as AG has been abysmal. For all the excesses of the Patriot Act and all the illegal tactics pursued by Ashcroft, he has only the convictions of the Lackawana students who went to Afghanistan to see the camps and then came back disillusioned and did nothing. No successful prosecutions, just lots of illegal detentions. He has made more law by being sued - and by losing suits. Just yesterday a right of center US Supreme Court rejected, 9-0, the Ashcroft attempted illegal application of a deportation statute designed to target violent perpetrators of intentional crimes.
With his health cited as the reason for leaving, Ashcroft should stay out of governmental affairs and spend his time performing before Evangelical groups the beloved - by him anyway - hymns he writes.
posted by Tom Blake | 10:12 AM
5 Comments:
John Ashcroft is a symbol of everything that is wrong with America. I can't think of a scarier individual from the last four years.
Rumsfeld? A nut, but he sure does know how to make a press conference intersting.
Cheney? A master of puppetry, but even he is more reasoned.
Rove? Scary how much power an non-elected, non-confirmed civilian has over the White House, but even he seems more human than Johnny boy.
No, I think John takes the cake.
Let's hope he flies his ass like an eagle right back to Missouri never to be heard from again. Good riddance indeed.
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Lest I be accused of censorship, posts were removed because of a dupliction problem. The blog program keeps the indication that there had been posts made, just in case later posts might have referred to them.
Tom
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