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Continuing to earn my respect...
Aug. 19th, 2003 12:19 am...is Howard Dean.
Mr. Ashcroft is preparing a sequel to the PATRIOT Act, one which will reportedly have the cutsey moniker of the VICTORY Act. This was originally going to be known as PATRIOT II, but as Joel Spolsky points out, when your brand has become a liability, it's time to change the name (just ask the bastard child of Bell Atlantic, GTE, and Airtouch Cellular).
Howard Dean, bless him, has started up an online petition against Ashcroft's doodlings. You can find it here:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/stopashcroft
After filling it out, it asks for comments. This is what I wrote:
Mr. Ashcroft, you swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. And yet, it seems as if hardly a month goes by without some new proposal from you to strip American citizens of their most basic rights that We The People tried to guarantee to each other through that document.
Sir, have you no shame?
I have yet to see a single proposal from you that, if enacted, would've prevented the attacks of 11 Sept 2001 that you use so frequently to justify violating your oath of office. Rather, you seem to always be trying to advance new ways to enhance your own personal power, to no end practical for the republic.
From one citizen to another, equal before the law, I suggest you focus your efforts on enforcing the laws we have in a competent fashion, rather than dreaming up new ways to figuratively spit on duty, honor, country, and God.
Lincoln once said, "...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. "
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
I may or may not end up voting for Mr. Dean in 2004. But I am very thankful to him for his efforts in hindering and, let us hope, stopping such "authors of our destruction" of these United States and its freedoms such as yourself and the former Governor of Texas.
Mr. Ashcroft is preparing a sequel to the PATRIOT Act, one which will reportedly have the cutsey moniker of the VICTORY Act. This was originally going to be known as PATRIOT II, but as Joel Spolsky points out, when your brand has become a liability, it's time to change the name (just ask the bastard child of Bell Atlantic, GTE, and Airtouch Cellular).
Howard Dean, bless him, has started up an online petition against Ashcroft's doodlings. You can find it here:
http://www.deanforamerica.com/stopashcroft
After filling it out, it asks for comments. This is what I wrote:
Mr. Ashcroft, you swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. And yet, it seems as if hardly a month goes by without some new proposal from you to strip American citizens of their most basic rights that We The People tried to guarantee to each other through that document.
Sir, have you no shame?
I have yet to see a single proposal from you that, if enacted, would've prevented the attacks of 11 Sept 2001 that you use so frequently to justify violating your oath of office. Rather, you seem to always be trying to advance new ways to enhance your own personal power, to no end practical for the republic.
From one citizen to another, equal before the law, I suggest you focus your efforts on enforcing the laws we have in a competent fashion, rather than dreaming up new ways to figuratively spit on duty, honor, country, and God.
Lincoln once said, "...Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. "
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
I may or may not end up voting for Mr. Dean in 2004. But I am very thankful to him for his efforts in hindering and, let us hope, stopping such "authors of our destruction" of these United States and its freedoms such as yourself and the former Governor of Texas.
