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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (2373)	2/13/2004 12:19:32 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 173976

<font color=red>John Kerry voted for the Patriot Act,and now opposes it</font> >Today's Kerry excoriates Attorney General John Ashcroft for violating >American civil liberties with his evil tool, the Patriot Act. "We are a >nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night," Kerry huffs. >"So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing >the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties >at the same time." Maybe Kerry should have thought about that before >voting for the Patriot Act in 2001 — since laws and liberties are pretty >important and all. > >Back before he had to worry about competing with one Howard Brush Dean, >Kerry was positively delighted by the Patriot Act. "It reflects," he said >on the Senate floor, "an enormous amount of hard work by the members of >the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. I >congratulate them and thank them for that work." While supportive of >"sunset" provisions in the bill, Kerry pronounced himself "pleased at the >compromise we have reached on the anti-terrorism legislation." These are >not the words of a man about to help inaugurate an era of brown-shirt law >enforcement. legalminds.lp.findlaw.com Good thing he's moved ahead. His past sure is embarrassing.