Saturday, September 20, 2003 Readers' Forum The Patriot Act
 JOHN
Ashcroft (US
Attorney-General,
right) and his pep rallies on the Patriot
Act miss the point. Basically, the Attorney General
is saying: We are from the government; trust us
when we say the Patriot Act does not threaten civil
liberties. But in a free society the assurances of
government fall woefully short.
Ashcroft forgets that he is an administrator and
not a legislator. His job is not to write laws or
determine what the law should be. His job
description is to execute the laws passed by
Congress. How dare he admonish Congress or the
American people for not supporting his viewpoint.
It is a misuse of our tax dollars for him to travel
throughout the country and lobby for his political
positions. The Patriot Act contains over 500 pages of
complicated legalese, and the full text of the bill
was not made available to Congress before the vote
was taken. It was passed in the hysteria of the
moment, and it clearly expands the government's
ability to monitor the American people. The Patriot
Act eases federal rules for search warrants, allows
secret "sneak and peek" searches, expanded wiretaps
and Internet monitoring and permits federal agents
to examine library and bookstore records. It is no
wonder that bumper stickers reading "I love my
country but fear my government" are growing in
popularity. Bernard
J Kunkel
Walton, Kentucky. 41094  
FBI warned
Attorney General Ashcroft not to fly by
commercial airlines not long before September
11, 2001-
Paul Wolfowitz is the king of spades, Rumsfeld
the ace: Bush
Regime "playing cards", the full deck on the
Voltaire website
(see picture right)
-
Thousands died
The
hunt for Weapons of Mass Destruction yields -
nothing
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