Apologist for the Police State: Goldberg On Ashcroft
Matthew Gaylor
freematt at coil.com
Tue Dec 18 22:34:18 PST 2001
[Note from Matthew Gaylor: US Attorney General John Ashcroft said
"to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost
liberty; my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists - for
they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give
ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends. They
encourage people of good will to remain silent in the face of evil.".
Lost liberty is exactly the term a rational patriotic American would
use to describe the intrusive power grab that is occurring in
America. National Review Online Editor Jonah Goldberg asks liberals
to stop comparing Ashcroft to McCarthy. A better exercise would be
to start comparing police state apologist Jonah Goldberg and John
Ashcroft to totalitarians
<http://www.libertyartworx.com/heimatsicherung.html>. For the full
text of Ashcroft's statement go to
<http://www.justice.gov/ag/speeches/2001/1206transcriptsenatejudiciary
committee.htm>.]
Jonah Goldberg can be reached at (JonahEmail at aol.com).
<http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20011219.shtml>
townhall.com
Jonah Goldberg
December 19, 2001
Liberals: Stop comparing Ashcroft to McCarthy
Like everyone else, I'd moved on from the public debates over
military tribunals, racial profiling, detentions, etc. But,
unfortunately, like crabgrass that feeds on inattention, a liberal
canard has been growing wildly in the absence of public debate.
That's the trouble with liberal canards. You have to pull them out by
the roots when they're young, otherwise they spread all over,
crowding out everything else until they become accepted as actual
facts.
The canard I'm talking about is this idea that Attorney General John
Ashcroft is some sort of McCarthyite. Recall, if you will, a few
weeks ago the Senate Judiciary Committee invited the attorney general
to explain himself.
[...]
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