ESSAY
"John Ashcroft"
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Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"In one of my attempted letters to the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle
in March 2001 I, interestingly enough, found a reference to current attorney
general John Ashcroft: “Mr. Ashcroft is a man without conviction or
purpose. He lacks the tenacity and fire of former attorney general Janet Reno.
He only seems concerned about two issues: denying women the right to choose, and
making sure every American can own assault weapons.”
Now in 2003, I can
only wish that my assessment were true....
...This ideological shift in the Justice department from transparent and
bureaucratic to secret and efficient is very alarming. In my opinion this shift
is much more significant and scary than the Mr. Ashcroft’s pension for guns, her
prosecution of “medical marijuana” users in California, his push to have every
capital crime punished by the death penalty, and his attack on Roe v. Wade."