John in this piece the authors final paragraph struck a chord;
As for "encouraging people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil," there's only one prominent person trying to intimidate legitimate critics into shutting up about actions they feel to be both wrong and deeply un-American at present. He is, unfortunately, the attorney general of the United States.
As a resident in proximity to John Ashcrofts home state (MO.) some might feel the same way, angry with Mr Ashcroft due to his performance after his defeat in the last election. You see Mr Ashcrofts opponents supposedly had thousands of dead people voting. Enough, according to some published editorials, to suggest that a major investigation;
1, Could have exposed voter fraud
2 Could have turned the election to the real winner John Ashcroft.
The funny thing is, within 12 hours of the election, Mr Ashcroft publicly accepted the/his defeat suggesting that he did not wish to overturn the election results, and that perhaps bygones should be bygones. This is against a back drop where MO Senator Kit Bond was squealing over radio and TV about the certainty of Ashcroft prevailing in a recount.
Ashcroft was subsequently called by Bush and accepted his appointment as Attorney General.
For many of us left here with the artificial winner of that fated election, now in power, our confidence is shaken. Shaken not just by the casual way the political parties might treat voter fraud, but how a loser could actualy benefit from it.
Perhaps the Attorney General in waiting, sensed Bush would win and was all to eager, to assume that mantle; leaving the citizens back home with a broken political apparatus.
Your guy can be mad at Ashy, but compared to the home folk, his complaints, are just politics as usual. |
