Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
> John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
>
>> KGII:
>>> 83-year-old Belgian grandmothers and 8-year-old Chinese kids are
>>> not the ones trying to blow us up.
>>
>>
>> That kind of thinking worries me. By all means, the authorities
>> should be targetting very specifically the people behind the
>> attacks. But they have to be *very* careful not to attack whole
>> communities or ethnic groups. That path leads to large scale
>> alienation and escalation of the problem.
>
> It should worry you for the opposite reason. The logical reaction of
> terrorists is to brainwash 83 year-old Belgian grandmothers and 8
> year-old Chinese kids into carrying bombs.

Huh?

> The logical reaction of
> Ashcroft's henchmen

Ooh, henchman! Who are is henchman? I mean, it's not like upon his
appointment he fired all the U.S. Attorneys in the country and brought in
his own people, unlike a recent Attorney General with a predilection for
armed sieges.

> is to step up the security another notch, and gain
> the power to throw anyone into jail at anytime for any reason without
> scrutiny.
>
> Or wait ... didn't they already do that?

No, they didn't.

> Ashcroft was one of my inspirations to enter law school.

A man worthy of emulation.

> Antonin
> Scalia
> was another.

A man even more worthy of emulation. Wow, I am really impressed! If you are
1/10 the jurist of Ashcroft or Scalia, you will be a star. I wish you the
best of luck.

> How does that old quote go? "All that is necessary for
> evil
> to prevail is for good men to do nothing" or something like that?

I never heard that one, although I believe we must fear the indifference of
good men more than we fear evil.

> The
> only way to undo the perversions that are being committed in the name
> of security is to fight them in court.

What perversions are those?

> It'll take a while, but sooner
> or
> later, Ashcroft will go down in history with McCarthy and similar
> pinheads,

If you think McCarthy was a pinhead, your understanding of history is
severely impaired. Besides, you should be happy. He gave liberals his name
so they could use it to shout down debate.

I read this column by a young man less than half your age, and I don't know
if he is exceptionally brilliant or if you are exceptionally dull. Maybe
both.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/bs20030227.shtml

> and genuine law and order will be restored in the USA.

Ooh! *Genuine* law and order! Is that anything like how the Supreme Court
isn't doing its job unless you agree with the opinion? I just *love* ad hoc
definitions.

-- 
Kevin Gowen