Bob's Links and Rants   Thursday, December 02, 2004  Your
Fascist Government at Work  Ashcroft may be going, but his
spirit will live on. Your "Justice" Department believes that
your "government" has the right to arrest anyone, anywhere in
the world on suspicion of whatever, and whisk them off to
Guantanamo Bay and hold them forever without rights of any kind.
From AP: Under detailed questioning by a federal judge,
government lawyers asserted Wednesday that the U.S. military
could hold foreigners indefinitely as enemy combatants at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, even if they aided terrorists
unintentionally and never fought the United States.  Could a
"little old lady in Switzerland" who sent a check to an
orphanage in Afghanistan be taken into custody if, unbeknownst
to her, some of her donation was passed to Al Qaeda terrorists?
asked U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green.  "She could,"
replied Deputy Associate Atty. Gen. Brian Boyle. "Someone's
intention is clearly not a factor that would disable detention."
It woul