Freedom-hating, uber-prude, buffoon John Ashcroft's beaurocratic neo-facist regime makes news again. Great article. If this guy gets any worse, Reagan-era punk rock is going to come back.
With increasing speed, the Justice Department of Attorney General John Ashcroft is starting to resemble the "always vengeful bureaucracy" that crushed Josef K. Recently, in two federal cases, the Justice Department argued that it is within the president's inherent power to indefinitely detain, without any charges, any person, including any United States citizen, whom the president (through the Justice Department) designates an "enemy combatant."