Ashcroft + tar + feathers.
You want to know why I passed a leisure hour with Eisenhower’s apocryphal bags of rice?
Because I’ve been trying not to think about this for the past six hours, that’s why. —Bill Moyers has been, though.
“In Georgia, New Jersey, and Connecticut,” notes this history of tarring and feathering in revolutionary America, “villagers were quick to feather any perceived ‘enemy to the rights of America.’”
Ladies and gentlemen Georgian, Jerseyite, Connecticutian, or otherwise, start your pots a-bubblin’. There’s a number of people in the Justice Department deserve the brush.
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If it comes down to a tar brush, I'm not so sure it's us critics of the Justice department who will be on the handle end, alas.
Not once in that article did the journalist say what the "Patriot" in "Patriot Act" stands for. It's doesn't mean patriotism. It's an acronym. It stands for "United and Strengthening America by *Providing *Appropriate *Tools *Required to *Intercept and *Obstruct *Terrorism Act." This is about an (unconstitutional?) invasion of the privacy of everyday American citizens, all in the name of Bush's vague and scary "terra."
I can't read Patriot II yet. I just ate. I'd like to keep my food down. Later...
When I was an archaeologist working for the CT State Archy, we came upon a 19th century skeleton which was severely mangled, post-mortum. Since the coffin was intact, it wasn't rodents or other pests. After some research, we found documentation which attested to a mob exhuming the coffin in order to rip out the dead woman's heart (it was believed that she was a vampire, feeding upon her husband's new wife - in actuality, both women had consumption.)
So I guess some people in the Justice department should hope that irate American's only follow Connecticut's tar and feather tradition, and not......