(Shamelessly snagging this post from Bob Harris at This Modern World, as nothing more needs to be said.)

Our Attorney General wants to make terrorist attacks against military bases or nuclear plants a capital offense.

Obviously. Nothing deters a suicide bomber quite like the death penalty.

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p>The full article is even scarier, though. Ashcroft is calling for a widening of the Patriot Act.

[See also: Death penalty unconstitutional | Ashcroft sings? | You Ashcroft! | Bush’s plans to expand the Patriot Act | Justice isn’t always black and white ]

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