A Founding Father put it like this: "Those who give up liberty for security will end up with neither." I'd say Ben Franklin tops the former Attorney General. Wouldn't you?
Evidently the US has a new category of useful idiots.
Many of them have evidently taken up residence right here on FR.
Many of them have evidently taken up residence right here on FR.
Few American liberal have this capacity, I know, but one must hope that most Freepers have the critical thinking skills that can cut through the folly of granting the President the supreme powers of a king.
WRT Ashcroft and Franklin, all I can say is "no contest". In his own time, and for history, Franklin was recognized as a genius of the highest order. I have no doubt that he would be appalled at the current state of affairs.