Are you now, or have you ever been, a terrorist?

[khaosworks]

U.S. Anti-Terror Bid Dangles Carrot for Foreigners

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, who has come under a barrage of criticism by civil rights groups in recent months, announced the "Responsible Cooperators Program," promising foreigners that for the right information they would get help with visas and other immigration issues. "It is designed to say to people that if you would like to have an improved visa status for your own presence in the United States and a pathway to citizenship, one of the ways you can do that is by providing reliable and useful information about terrorism," said Ashcroft.

Whoever said McCarthyism was dead?

And hey, guys, it's only Year One of this Republican administration. Looking forward to the next three?

Comments

[kungfoogirl.livejournal.com]

This scares me.

Want a ninja? Have nunchucks, will travel.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

You realize that most of the US didn't vote for him?

I certainly didn't

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Well, somebody did, because he's in the White House. Isn't the electoral college system wonderful?

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Or a Supreme Court that decides elections because they're being less-than-nonobviously partisan?

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

The recent inquiry pretty much showed that even if the recount came through, Bush would've won. I think it's time people start re-evaluating how much they want to give up, scared or not, "war" or not.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

I had several lengthy discussions with people at my office after 9-11 (using the US-style dates of month, then day for anyone not in the US). The impression I got was that they were willing to give up an awful lot for the illusion of security. I keep reminding them that most of this is all feelgood legislation and doesn't accomplish much.

you're braver than I

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

It's always been evident to me that my coworkers would gladly trade freedom for security. I can't convince them that one can't buy security, only repression, with that coin, so I've gradually been giving up. I know that's craven and cowardly of me, but I'm exhausted.

[gingicat]

Not in the slightest. I wish that the Democrats had actually run a candidate worth voting for.

And Ashcroft... isn't he the same idiot who decided that the US had to drive the Communists out of Vietnam, and fouled that up thoroughly?

[sydneygb.livejournal.com]

"Everyone go to your front doors, look, and listen. Look for a man running through the streets ... he is wanted for murder..." - Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

[lapislaz.livejournal.com]

Shades of Nightwatch ... if JMS was dead, he'd be rolling in his grave. And Harlan must be about to have apoplexy.

Dunno about Ashcroft and Vietnam, but this is the man who was judged by the citizens of the state of Missouri to be so dumb that a dead man was preferable as Senator. That ought to tell us *something*.