While it does soften the blow, I refuse to allow him to accuse anyone who isn't directly funding and supporting terrorism as "one who aide terrorism." That is pure unadulterated propoganda. I am pro-immigration, and even though he takes a swipe at my opponents on that issue, he is wrong. I am pro-civil liberties. He is painting me with that brush. It is a scary statement as a snippet and just as much so in the entire statement. I will not be called someone who aids terrorism. I refuse to and ashcroft can "stop" the UN from getting our guns all he wants, all it tells me that he read one right in a bill of many.
That's OK, the communist/socialist left counts on it to keep the 'moderates' from seeing them as they really are.
It is also why they are pursuing Enron rather than Global Crossing. The 'Global Crossing' bankruptcy(the biggest in California history) involves a 'politically correct' Board of Directors, and the media doesn't defend the poor stockholders of 'Global Crossing' who were 'raped and pillaged' by the 'BIG BAD GLOBAL CROSSING CORPORATION' and Pacific Capital Group.