[Deb]

Sorry, I'm afraid you'll have to link us to anything backing up your Ashcroft claim. And if it was before 19 Arabs used our open society and civil liberties to murder 3000 fellow Americans, you lose.

[jmc813]

And if it was before 19 Arabs used our open society and civil liberties to murder 3000 fellow Americans, you lose.

Ashcroft left the Senate l;ong before 9-11. I suppose that if Arabs somehow used guns to kill 3,000 folks, you'd be clamoring for disarmament?

[viaveritasvita]

Law of unintended consequences, we'd-be-up-in-arms-if-clinton-passed-this-act, bump to read the danged thing for myself (UGH -- all that dry reading).

[jmc813]

Sorry, I'm afraid you'll have to link us to anything backing up your Ashcroft claim.

Ellery - I seem to recall you quoting Ashcroft speaking out against legislation similar to parts of the PATRIOT Act in his Senate days. Or am I thinking of another FReeper?

[steve-b]

if it was before 19 Arabs used our open society and civil liberties to murder 3000 fellow Americans

When you learn enough English to distinguish between "airplanes" and "open society", get back to us.