Elaine Cassel doesn't like John Ashcroft

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I wish we did not have a religious zealot, a wolf in wolf’s clothing, who holds himself out as a "Christian," as the chief law enforcement officer in the United States. I wish we had someone who believed in justice, and in justice tempered with mercy. I wish we had a man who lived by the word of Jehovah, as written in the Old Testament, a man who believed in the God who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay."

But then, I recall that Ashcroft thinks he is God, or at least was put here by God to be Attorney General when 9/11 took place. God was preparing him for 9/11/, the Patriot Act, and all the prosecutions he has overseen since 9/11. That is why God had him lose his Senate race to a dead man. That’s what Ashcroft says.

I shudder to think of all the lives, and even more important, the principles of justice, the foundations of the American judicial system, that have been ruined by his religious and political zealotry, which run rampant, seemingly unchecked by the courts or the Congress.

The Lynne Stewart case is the tip of the iceberg. Ashcroft and company have only just begun with their paybacks for losses in the courtroom. Whoever beats Ashcroft better leave the country. Vengeance is his name, vengeance is his game, and the American criminal justice system is the ultimate loser.

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