As for Ashcroft, tyranny is as tyranny does. It doesn't matter whether he, you and the Republican Party believe he is not if his behavior indicates otherwise. If he is doing things that tyrants do, such as secretly gathering information about people's information-gathering habits because he can, for uses that he keeps equally secret, using police power as a force for intimidation, well then...
As I see it. Isn't that part of his job? So, we should do away with security for the sake of total freedom. Something tells me we won't have freedom for long. I think that preventing a catastrophe from happening is a good thing... investigative work has to be done in order to do that. Ashcroft is there to do a job, representing the people of this country. Ashcroft is under the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court (checks and balances!). Cuba is the antithesis, a totally different animal that is run with a totally different set of rules and laws.
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