Capitol Hill Blue -- John Ashcroft's Amerika

Sadly, the fate of America, along with a little document called the Constitution of the United States, now seems to lie in the hands of a incompetent politician who was so inept as an incumbent Senator he couldn’t even beat a dead man at election time.

Attorney General John Ashcroft is getting what he wants – a totalitarian government free to spy on its citizens, destroy the first and fourth amendments of the Constitution and undermine the very foundations of the Republic.

Armed with ominous tools like the USA Patriot Act and the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness System, Ashcroft and his legions are turning this country into a police state where every American is a file number, every citizen is a suspect and every action a reason for suspicion.

“This brings back the old days of Hoover and his personal hit lists,” says retired FBI agent Alan Matthews. “Most of us had hoped those days were long gone.”

Terrorism succeeds when the victims of terrorists change their way of life, when fear dictates policy and hatred replaces reason. Terrorism wins when freedom becomes secondary to the cause.

The terrorists have won.