Sorry guys, I know it's hard to believe but I can't find any of the other Ashcroft threads. This is good: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...030605/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/ashcroft_congress_10 --- Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) asked Congress Thursday for expanded powers to hold suspected terrorists indefinitely before trials and to let him seek the death penalty or life imprisonment for any terrorist act. --- What would constitute a capital terrorist act?
Re: Re: Ashcoft...again! And suddenly the thread goes quiet... Anyway, from the article: "The law has several weaknesses which terrorists could exploit, undermining our defenses," Ashcroft said. Like due process and freedom of speech. Let's do away with those little inconveniences poste haste.
Someone should really ask him which weaknesses he does have in mind. Because right now he can pick me off my couch and put me in Gitmo on his own say-so. He's also allowed to torture me, provided what I say while screaming in agony isn't directly used at my trial - thanks, Clarence Thomas. I'm pretty sure all my assets would be gone, since they can already do that for suspected drug dealers. And I doubt I could sue the guvmint for false arrest, on the off chance I am vindicated - I think that loophole was also closed a few years ago, for instances where the military bungles. I probably have some details wrong, but Ashcroft can already screw up my life in any of a hundred different ways before breakfast. What does he think he's missing, on a practical level?
Dear Dan; What trial? Salam Alekhum - Alleged dirtybomber/definite US citizen on a permanent deep-sea fishing expedition off Norfolk