Don't let the door hit ya

Departing Attorney General John Ashcroft on Friday lashed out at federal judges who have dealt setbacks to President George W. Bush's anti-terrorism and wartime policies, accusing them of "invasive oversight and micromanagement."

"The danger I see here is that intrusive judicial oversight and second-guessing of presidential determinations in these critical areas can put at risk the very security of our nation in a time of war," Ashcroft said in his first speech since his resignation became public Tuesday.

Newsday article

Do not question the King. Lord knows he's not made a bad decision yet. It seems to me, and I'm just looking at it from my own warped view here, that declaring war - going to war - puts a nation's security at risk. Telling the inflamed "enemy" to "bring 'em on" may tend to put a nation's security at risk. Avoiding pursuance of terrorists who attacked the country and instead picking a fight with a global population of Allah's faithful may tend to put that country at risk.

"These encroachments include some of the most fundamental aspects of the president's conduct of the war on terrorism," he told the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers group with close ties to the Bush administration.

Like dodging international law in favor of rounding up and torturing tens of thousands of racially profiled people, for instance.

And, by the way, before leaving, AssKKKroft has filed an appeal to a federal judge's decision that Guantanamo prisoners cannot be denied due legal process.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson of Washington ruled in the case of Osama bin Laden's driver that only a military court, not the president, could deem the captives "enemy combatants" and deprive them of Geneva Conventions protections.

That decision followed other judicial setbacks, including a divided Supreme Court ruling in June that the president does not have the authority to hold terror suspects indefinitely without access to attorneys or courts to challenge their detention.

In his speech, Ashcroft said unelected judges should show deference to the president, particularly on matters of national defense and security...

And here I was under the mistaken impression that "liberal activist" Judge Robertson had virtually freed a terrorist by reinterpreting our just laws. All he did was say that the Brat King couldn't make that decision? But a military court could? WTF? I'm sure the military courts would be happy to do so.

So, it really is a matter of challenging the King's right to decree who shall live and who shall die. Well, after all, the king is God's representative here on earth.

Man, every time I think I have found the bottom, and every time I think I may have gone a little too tin-foil-hat, I am proven wrong.