Thank you, everyone. It's nice to see a thread that reminds of the old FR, where people would have screamed bloody murder if someone had tried to modify the Constitution without an Amendment the way Ashcroft has done/wants to do. Hopefully, the "my President, right or wrong" crowd will come around.
It's very disappointing to see lemmings on Free Republic who swallow these lies without any thinking or research.
Thankfully there are so few represented on this thread.
These are not suggestions from Ashcroft, these are suggestions TO Ashcroft from Justice Department staff.
"the government would have enough power to declare a person aided a terrorist organization, strip them of their American citizenship, and deport them without a trial, and without judicial review. "
What a stupid bald lie.
As stupid and crude as some of the suggestions in the staff's memo are, this is not in it.