Freedoms Curtailed In Defense Of Liberty

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 10:24:19PM -0500, measl at mfn.org (measl at mfn.org) wrote:
> >       "We live in a land governed by plurality of opinion in an open
> > electorate, but we are now under siege by adherents of a
> > fundamentalist, totalitarian belief system that tolerates no dissent,"
> > Attorney General John Ashcroft said. 
> 
> Yeah, the fascist government of the united states...
> 
> > "Our most basic
> > American values are threatened by an enemy opposed to everything for
> > which our flag stands. That is why I call upon all
> > Americans to submit to wiretaps, e-mail monitoring, and racial
> > profiling. Now is not the time to allow simplistic, romantic
> > notions of 'civil liberties' and 'equal protection under the law' to get
> > in the way of our battle with the enemies of freedom."
> 
> Jesus christ!!!  What was that about watering the tree???

With the juice of onions, no less.

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