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November 14, 2004

Ashcroft reveals his inner fascist

Herr Ashcroft expressed his displeasure with the Founding Fathers by lashing out at federal judges on Friday.

"The danger I see here is that intrusive judicial oversight and second-guessing of presidential determinations in these critical areas can put at risk the very security of our nation in a time of war."

What Ashcroft is venting about here is the courts not passively acquiescing to the Bush administrations attempted end-run around the Constitution by keeping prisoners in Gitmo Bay, Cuba instead of holding them here on American soil, so as to avoid having to comply with the Constitution.

As anyone who didn't sleep thru civics class in high school knows, the Founding Fathers quite deliberately divided power between the President, the legislature, and the courts. And they also deliberately gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights which it enshrines.

Herr Ashcroft went on to vent, "Courts are not equipped to execute the law. They are not accountable to the people."

Again, as anyone who didn't sleep thru civics class knows, the Founding Fathers deliberately didn't make the courts accountable to the people. That the Attorney General of the United States would so openly argue against the very principles upon which this country was founded, and clearly with the presumption that "we the people" are too stupid to grasp any of it... is truly disturbing and bodes ill for the future of this nation if it isn't forcefully rebutted.

(cross-posted at Indie Castle)

Posted by Kevin at November 14, 2004 10:24 AM