Commentary from WorldNetDaily
By Jack Cashill
Posted: November 26, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
I had the occasion this past week to meet with former Attorney General John Ashcroft. I asked him how he felt when Democrats express outrage about accusations of fascism against the Obama administration.
Ashcroft smiled. He knows a little something about such accusations. Five years ago I wrote about the subject on these pages, and I thought it worth a revisit.
Back then, one progressive friend after another alerted me to a rather scary development: U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft had become a Nazi – "another Hitler" as one fretfully described our former Missouri governor and senator.
This all came as news to me. I had met Ashcroft a few times, and he had exhibited no signs of latent Nazism: no heel-clicking or arm-thrusting, no anti-Semitic slurs or "sieg heils," no quiet yearnings for the Fatherland.
I wondered, too, how a man of such presumed extremes could manage to win five statewide races in America's most politically indicative state.
Still, I could not just dismiss those alarums. At least three of my friendly Cassandras were prominent Missourians. Perhaps they knew something I did not.
To test their suspicions, I did a quick online search and got a jolt of confirmation. Some 18,400 Web postings linked "Ashcroft" and "Nazi," at least two-thirds of which accused Ashcroft of being a Nazi.
One site served as an unofficial Ashcroft songbook. It posted the lyrics of more than 70 songs, all of which alerted the innocent to the suspected reign of terror at Justice.
Indeed, it must have taken an act of deep courage to pen a song like "The Obnoxious Right Wing Nazi Pig Dog From Missouri" (sung to tune of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy") knowing that the aforementioned "pig dog" was creating "Dachaus" for his political opponents.
I could not write off these suspicions as mere Internet blather. On one even more damning site, America's erstwhile "most trusted man," the late Walter Cronkite, denounced Ashcroft as the "Torquemada of American law."
Torquemada was the proto-fascist responsible, according to Cronkite, for the unholy methods of the Spanish Inquisition, "including torture and the burning of heretics – Muslims in particular."
Egads! No wonder my friends were upset.
As I learned in my investigation, progressives do not upset easily. During World War I, the Espionage and Sedition Acts allowed Woodrow Wilson's progressive administration to prosecute those reckless enough to voice anti-war sentiments.
Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs spent 10 years in prison as a result. He was one of 2,000 so prosecuted. During World War II, the always progressive FDR interned – by executive order – 120,000 ethnic Japanese with the full-throated support of the Supreme Court.
The Clinton years witnessed a renewal of the left's selective affection for civil rights. When, for instance, Ashcroft's predecessor as attorney general, Janet Reno, launched a tank assault on a religious community outside of Waco, killing 80 people, more than half of them minorities, 20 of them children, my friends kept silent. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]
From WorldNetDaily
By Ellis Washington
Posted: November 14, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern
© 2009
Although you understand the debilitating impact of the [Gorelick] wall, I cannot imagine that the commission knew about this [1995] memorandum, so I have declassified it for you and the public to review.
~ John Ashcroft, attorney general, before the 9/11 commission, April 13, 2004
The tragic murder of 14 people (I include the preborn baby) at Fort Hood last week by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was the first terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. This terrible act has brought to the fore all the usual suspects, recriminations and rationalizations. Each day brings new revelations or "red flags" concerning this Muslim fanatic that military officials, the FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security and even Hasan's medical colleagues knew about for years, but did nothing.
Two things shielded America's enemies from swift justice: 1) Political correctness, which I call "perversity correctness," or what conservative intellectual Michael Savage calls "political cowardice"; and 2) the Gorelick Wall.
Let's take the first shield Maj. Hasan (and technically untold millions of Muslims) have protecting him – PC, political cowardice. Our military brass and Congress are so cowed by even the appearance of singling out Muslims to prevent terrorists attacks in America that they literally looked at every other thing in the room but the 800-pound gorilla sitting in the corner shouting Allahu akbar! – until it was too late.
This insane PC policy of American cowardice toward Muslims is evidenced by the Obama administration refusing to use the phrases "war on terror," "Islamic terrorism," "terrorists" or "Muslim," preferring the less judgmental term, "manmade disaster."
The second policy America has launched against itself is the infamous "Gorelick Wall." What is the Gorelick Wall? It is a policy developed by Clinton appointee and former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, who after the first terrorist bombings of the World Trade Center of Feb. 26, 1993, was placed as the head of a blue ribbon commission to find the causes in our internal security that allowed these bombings to occur.
In March 1995, Gorelick co-wrote a radical and treasonous memo that, in the words of Attorney General John Ashcroft, "go beyond what is legally required ... [to] prevent any risk of creating an unwarranted appearance that FISA [the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] is being used to avoid procedural safeguards which would apply in a criminal investigation."
What does this mean? It means that the FBI cannot share intelligence with the CIA, the NSA, the DEA, ATF, the military or any other security agency in America. It is a unilateral, self-binding policy reminiscent of the proverbial saying, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]
By Erik Rush
© 2009
Some people don't seem to be getting what they expected in President Obama and the new administration.
A week prior to the anti-spending tea parties (as opposed to anti-government or anti-Obama, as characterized in the press) that took place on April 15, Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security released a report addressing (among other things, as it turned out) the involvement of "right-wing extremists." No doubt this was a pre-emptive move made in concert with the press and intended to sour the taste of the tea parties on America's palate prior to their even occurring. These dangerous people were said (by the DHS) to include pro-life advocates, proponents of immigration law enforcement and military veterans, among others.
Napolitano, an apparent incarnation of Bill Clinton's Attorney General Janet "Waco" Reno, somehow couldn't keep her foot out of her mouth on this subject. There was, of course, lots of talk at the tea parties regarding the DHS report and Napolitano's comments on it. This seems to have – at least initially – added fuel to the "far-right boogeyman" fire. [Continue reading]
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