The 14th Amendment is not the Bill of Rights. I would think that a professional writer/political observer would know this. He compares the Bush Admin to Stalin on the basis of one man's court case. Making a mountain out of a molehill comes to mind. That aside, Ashcroft is one scary bastard w/ a warped agenda, and he needs to be removed from the AG post.
Bassque, today is Thursday. Self-Portrait day is on Friday. Geez, first you couldn't clicky and now you have your days mixed up. 
[Comment was edited by MmmmHmmm on June 05, 2003 at 11:08:09 AM]
at least he writes to the people he is responding to. 
[Comment was edited by verbal on June 05, 2003 at 10:45:46 AM]
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
Turtles all the way down
I was thinking of the correct person ... just wrote the wrong name ... 
I meant you , just typed his name.
Anyways, I completely ruined that joke ... 
The things sleepiness can do to you ... lol.
MmmmHmmm
I usually find people's comparisons to Hitler and Stalin, well, a stretch.
However, the ideas in this article about the stripping of citizenship and rights is right on target. It is a very real and very scary power that the government now has. Many people bypass it and go "oh, it's just for 'those' terrorists". Speaking of 'those' people like they have some land called terrori and they are civillians of it.
Personally, I think this terrorism (not the actual terrorism, but the laws trying to stop it) is scary. There is no real defintion of what a terrorists organization is, what they believe, what they stand for, etc, etc. It is basically just people that the US don't like or feel a slight threat by. Makes me wonder if file-swappers will be the new economic terrorists once the US gets bored with bombing middle eastern individuals.