[Politech] John Kerry voted for the Patriot Act, and now opposes it [priv]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 21:21:08 PST

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    http://nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200401260838.asp
    >Today's Kerry excoriates Attorney General John Ashcroft for violating 
    >American civil liberties with his evil tool, the Patriot Act. "We are a 
    >nation of laws and liberties, not of a knock in the night," Kerry huffs. 
    >"So it is time to end the era of John Ashcroft. That starts with replacing 
    >the Patriot Act with a new law that protects our people and our liberties 
    >at the same time." Maybe Kerry should have thought about that before 
    >voting for the Patriot Act in 2001 — since laws and liberties are pretty 
    >important and all.
    >
    >Back before he had to worry about competing with one Howard Brush Dean, 
    >Kerry was positively delighted by the Patriot Act. "It reflects," he said 
    >on the Senate floor, "an enormous amount of hard work by the members of 
    >the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. I 
    >congratulate them and thank them for that work." While supportive of 
    >"sunset" provisions in the bill, Kerry pronounced himself "pleased at the 
    >compromise we have reached on the anti-terrorism legislation." These are 
    >not the words of a man about to help inaugurate an era of brown-shirt law 
    >enforcement.
    
    
    
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