ASHCROFT DIGS UP ANCIENT LAW
TO PROSECUTE GREENPEACE

From AlterNet:

Last year, two Greenpeace activists climbed aboard a ship carrying Amazon mahogany wood. They held a banner that said "President Bush: Stop Illegal Logging."

Instead of halting the shipment, the government is prosecuting Greenpeace in federal court in Miami. It has charged Greenpeace under an obscure 19th-century law never intended for this purpose. A trial is now set for December.

Leading legal experts, quoted in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and publications around the world, agree that this prosecution is disturbing and poses a threat to free speech.

Needless to say, instead of relentlessly pursuing terrorists, US Attorney General John Ashcroft has a better idea: squander tax dollars in a crusade against bong sellers and hippy environmentalists. I feel safer already.

Damed evil hippies. Click here for more.

Take that, Maynard G. Krebs!

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