Defending the rights of all, um, well, oh never mind
Posted on:: November 11th, 2004
Dan Gillmor puts it well:
As noted, the Bush administration’s anti-liberty record isn’t the responsibility of outgoing Attorney General John Ashcroft, despite the zeal with which Ashcroft has torn into Americans’ civil liberties. Now Bush has nominated for attorney general the man who so infamously endorsed torture as a tactic in the war on terrorism, and has defended the administration’s claim that the president can lock up anyone indefinitely without even providing access to a lawyer. It’s going to be a long four years.
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And for a minute there I was so happy that Ashcroft was leaving. I thought perhaps a natural regression toward the mean would bring us someone significantly less awful. But once again I have underestimated the Bush administration. Misunderestimated, I mean.
Exemplars of the American dream, the Ivy League scion of established family, newly chosen as first citizen of his nation, picks an example of the vigor and new perspectives brought to its shores by immigration. And they work in tandem to reverse the Enlightenment, if not the Renaissance.
No wonder most of the world has become anti-American. It’s getting to the point that any decent person should be.