[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@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. [...] ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************