[Raymond Hendrix]

After all is said and done I must say that we are heading down a path that is not good. It can be great fun picking on the liberals but we should clean up our own house first. I wish that those who are all for this new era of security and safety would answer these questions:

1. When is this war going to end?

2. When will our liberties return?

3. Who decides when we get them back or when the war ends?

4. When Germany rose to power under Hitler some did not complain because they were not "Jews" "unionists" etc. Then they were taken to the camps. What prevents YOU from being charged and held without trial and without access to an attorney?

5. Who decides who and who does not deserve the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights? And who will decide when Bush and Ashcroft are out of office?

6. What precedent are we setting and how can we argue against it when someone else is in power that we do not trust?

[ninenot]

Thanks for the intelligent questions.

The beauty of the Constitution is that it distills solid policy.

I, too, am concerned not so much about Ashcroft (because he is at the core a good man) but about succeeding Administrations. It is entirely possible that Ashcroft is in error about this policy/law; it is PROBABLE that Congress passed this without much thought.

The question is, then, how to FIX it?