Ashcroft Gone, Justice Statues Disrobe
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (Washington, DC, 2002), then-Attorney General John Ashcroft spent $8000 in taxpayer money to protect his fragile morality. In covering the “Spirit of Justice”, Ashcroft unwittingly made a loud-and-clear statement on the value of Justice to the Bush Administration. With Shi’ite Republicans ruling the roost, no longer would the values of compassion, diversity, justice, and open-mindedness rule the day. No, in post-9.11 America, it was all about Republicans seizing the opportunity to force their narrow political, moral, and idelogical worldview on the rest of us. Sadly, we have, very sheep-like, acquiesced to the hijacking of our country (Nuremberg rallies, anyone??).
Remember the good old days, when Reaganaut Edwin Meese could stand in front of “Spirit of Justice” holding up a copy of the Meese Commission report on pornography- and not have a clue as to the delicious irony of the moment? Man, what I wouldn’t do to be able to locate a picture of that…but, I digress. BushCo is a decidedly humor-deficient and joyless lot, and John Ashcroft was this Administration’s chief buzzkill. Now he has taken his joyless self off to parlay his time as AG into a personal fortune in the private sector, I just want an answer to one simple question. When is John Ashcroft going to repay the $8000 of our money he spent to protect his virtue by covering a pair of metallic breasts??
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