The conscience of Ashcroft
Posted on:: January 23rd, 2004
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, according to the AP, “Attorney General John D. Ashcroft yesterday urged nations…to fight corruption, which is costing the world economy more than $2 trillion every year.”
“Follow our moral lead,” Ashcroft said. “Surely in your own country you have a highly visible woman who is resented for her success. I urge you to go after her with the full power of the law. And God bless America.”
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I can’t find any such quote online, though Ashcroft did speak there.
Did you make up the quote to be funny? Did you fall for somebody else’s fake quote? Are you a big fan of Martha Stewart who feels she’s being unfairly persecuted by John Ashcroft only because she’s a big donor to the Democrats? Do you think corruption is a laughing matter? Aren’t you happy that Ashcroft is out of the country lecturing foreigners and not in the White House dungeon turning the thumb screws on the poor and islamic?
Joe: I made up the second paragraph to be funny. The first quote came from an article in the Boston Globe today that they picked up from the AP. Yes, Ashcroft spoke in Davos.
Kevin: I think Stewart is being over-prosecuted not because she’s a big donor to the Democrats – is she? I hadn’t heard that – but because she’s unpopular because she’s a successful, aggressive woman and to distract us from the systemic issues of corruption.
Serious enough for you?
And I thought they only used the scapegoat at the temple on the Day of Atonement.
David, it looks like you’ve been influenced by too much Opinions You Should Have.
I’d like to see Martha go down. I’m one of those ordinary Americans who are sick of the rich and privilaged playing by a different set of rules. Color me resentful of the wealthy and powerful. Not because of their material posessions, but for their uncanny ability to sidestep the rules while middle-class and poor people are held to stricter legal standards.
Did you see that guy, Janklow, the (ex-)congressman of South Dakota, who just got convicted on “man 2”? Habitually reckless with his car and killed a guy on a motorcycle. Could be up for 10 years, $10,000. But he gets, as I recall, 60 days in the slammer, 3 years of probation and then his felony record even gets expunged. Sweet deal!
Note: No love lost for John Ashcroft, who is one of the most frightening people occupying a high level government post. He’s religious fanatic and shows absolutely no regard for the basic civil liberties which Americans like myself hold so dear.
fwiw, I thought you were poking at Hillary.
My recollection is that Martha claimed she was being prosecuted because she is a big donor to the Democratic Party. My own feeling is that she is being prosecuted as a way for the prosecutor to make a name for himself. I have no idea as to her innocence or guilt.
I think she is unpopular with some people for the reason you state, and for other people because they feel she sets the bar too high (always a way to piss people off). I happen to like her professional persona (I have no idea what she’s “really” like – and don’t care) in part because I don’t think she’s trying to tell you you have to do 101 things to be any good, but she gives you 101 things you can do, please pick one or more that interest you.
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