[gcruse]

A. You do not know Ashcroft.
      I didn't know Janet Reno, either.  That didn't stop me criticizing Waco.

B. Some prosecutors are over-zealous, and this one may be one.
     Ashcroft's raping and pillaging of the Tenth Amendment give over-zelocity a new benchmark.
C. If Ashcroft ordered this, why would he have an investigation of the prosecutor?
     For the same reason OJ is still looking for the killer.

[Miss Marple]

John Ashcroft was an honorable conservative senator. There is no reason to think that he suddenly became an Orwellian dictator, except in the misinterpretations of the paranoid.

Ashcroft hasn't burned up a group of Americans on nationwide television. If he had done something so reprehensible, I would expect you to attack him.

Instead, you are taking the Patriot Act to the extreme interpretation, and attacking him based on your suspicions.

[MEG33]

Gee,gcruse,why have you been so hard on Ashcroft?