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Byron ol friend, AG Ashcroft isn't after you. Doubt there are very many Aussies on his "short list." perhaps that one psycho that was in the news-but he was on everyone's list. Padilla has a "history." We don't know all of it. We may never. But we do know he is a convicted murderer, drug-dealer and gang-banger and we know where he came from and who his friends are (were). Many anyway. Not exactly a stand-up guy. Perhaps Ashcroft is keeping him and others for their own protection?

..Byron ol friend, AG Ashcroft isn't after you. Doubt there are very many Aussies on his "short list"...

Oh yes he is, amigo. Our Aussie AG, Daryl Williams, has lifted most of Ashcroft's programs and tried to present them here as essential protections in the War On Terror. Or, as I'm increasingly coming to view it, the War of Terror. There's been a firestorm of protest and thank Heavens our AG hasn't been able to get much of his State vs the Citizen legislation enacted. Williams and other US allies look to the US for leadership on these issues, and Ashcroft is enabling foreign authoritarians in that way. What I still cannot get my head around is how Bush and Ashcroft, who started out with so much promise, and such great goodwill and gratitude from conservatives generally, have now turned on us like this. I thought I was cynical about the presidency during the Clinton era but the way these two are raping the hopes and dreams of those who voted them into office just takes the cake.

Byron ol friend, AG Ashcroft isn't after you. Doubt there are very many Aussies on his "short list." perhaps that one psycho that was in the news-but he was on everyone's list. Padilla has a "history." We don't know all of it. We may never. But we do know he is a convicted murderer, drug-dealer and gang-banger and we know where he came from and who his friends are (were). Many anyway. Not exactly a stand-up guy. Perhaps Ashcroft is keeping him and others for their own protection?

Do you even have a clue what due process and the Bill of Rights and Constitutional Protections mean? It's obvious you don't. Hope you never have to find out what it's like to live without it....though you seem to be quite happy to rid yourself of them.