John Adolf Ashcroft
This man is bad news, especially as Attorney General, and
especially after September 11 last year. Good grief! It's incredible
that a stinky relic from glory days of the Ku Klux Klan can become
Police Chief Number One in the most powerful country on earth.
Absolutely unbelievable.
Here is a little info about the guy - just a little. In
the first place, he has been singing his praises to the white
supremacist magazine "Southern Partisan". This guy
is still fighting the Civil War for the South!
The following text is copied from the website FAIR, Fairness
& Accuracy In Reporting, 130 W. 25th Street New York, NY
10001 (http://www.fair.org/press-releases/southern-partisan.html
)
Ashcroft on the white supremacist magazine
"Southern Partisan":
"Your magazine also helps set
the record straight. You've got a heritage of doing that, of
defending Southern patriots like [Robert E.] Lee, [Stonewall]
Jackson and [Confederate President Jefferson] Davis. Traditionalists
must do more. I've got to do more. We've all got to stand up
and speak in this respect, or else we'll be taught that these
people were giving their lives, subscribing their sacred fortunes
and their honor to some perverted agenda."
--John Ashcroft, Southern Partisan magazine interview
(Second Quarter/1998)
When Attorney General nominee John Ashcroft praised the neo-Confederate
magazine Southern Partisan, he was endorsing a publication that
defends slavery, white separatism, apartheid and David Duke;
a publication that celebrates the assassination of Abraham Lincoln,
while delivering a "mixed review" of Lincoln's assassin
(Southern Partisan, Second Quarter/1990).
Though Southern Partisan is the leading magazine of the neo-Confederate
movement, it really is much more than a "gumbo of racist
apologias," as the New Republic put it last year (1/31/00).
Southern Partisan's bigotry targets virtually anyone who isn't
a straight white male neo-Confederate. Southern Partisan practices
equal-opportunity bigotry. Here's a sample of opinion from the
magazine John Ashcroft says "helps set the record straight":
"Southern Partisan" on Slavery:
"Neither Jesus nor the apostles
nor the early church condemned slavery, despite countless opportunities
to do so, and there is no indication that slavery is contrary
to Christian ethics or that any serious theologian before modern
times ever thought it was."
--Samuel Francis, Southern Partisan, Third Quarter/1995
"Slave owners . . . did not
have a practice of breaking up slave families. If anything, they
encouraged strong slave families to further the slaves' peace
and happiness."
--First Quarter/1996
"Southern Partisan" on Lincoln:
Abraham Lincoln is a "consummate
conniver, manipulator and a liar."
--Southern Partisan cited in Legal Times, 2/26/1996
The Spring 1984 issue refers to "the
sinister Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln--an invitation
to the slaves to rise against their masters."
"Southern Partisan" on John Wilkes Booth:
"His behavior was not only sane,
but sensible. His background, loyalties, beliefs, and experiences
had led him to that end."
--Mark Brewer, Second Quarter/1990
For years Southern Partisan has celebrated the murder of
Abraham Lincoln by selling T-shirts with Lincoln's image over
the words "sic semper tyrannis" ("thus always
to tyrants")-- John Wilkes Booth's cry just after shooting
Lincoln. Timothy McVeigh was wearing this T-shirt when he was
arrested for the Oklahoma City bombing.
New York Times, 6/3/1997
"Southern Partisan" on the Klan:
The Ku Klux Klan's first Grand Wizard, Civil War Gen. Nathan
Bedford Forrest, cited as evidence that "the
Confederacy was full of super heroes."
--Fourth Quarter/1996
Praised former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke as "a
candidate concerned about 'affirmative' discrimination, welfare
profligacy, the taxation holocaust ... a Populist spokesperson
for a recapturing of the American ideal."
--Fourth Quarter/1990
"Southern Partisan" on Feminism:
Feminism is a "revolt against
god."
--First Quarter/2000
"Feminists, ethnic minorities,
sodomites and other 'victims' of majority culture are demanding
special recognition and privileged status."
--Second Quarter/1992
"Southern Partisan" on Homosexuality:
The University of Georgia "promotes
perversion" by sponsoring programs for Gay men and
Lesbians. Same-sex marriage is a "vile
act of blasphemy."
--First Quarter/1997
"The acts of sodomy are probably
the most repulsive desecrations in the sexual order.... The terrible
swift sword of the dread AIDS disease is surely what in other
ages would be acknowledged a sign of God's wrath. It is only
the least subtle notice of divine displeasure with the swinishness
of our age."
--Reid Buckley, Winter/1986
"Southern Partisan" on Everyone but "Us":
"Newly arrived in New York City,
I puzzled, 'Where are the Americans?' for I met only Italians,
Jews, Puerto Ricans."
--Patrick Brophy, Second Quarter/1991
"What Southerner feels at home
in Miami these days, a city 56 percent Spanish-speaking that
includes not only Cubans but numbers of cocaine-pushing trigger-happy
Colombians?"
--Allan Charles, Summer/1982
"Melting Pot: An instrument
by which distinct forms of distinct material are melted into
a common sludge."
--"The Partisan Dictionary," Spring/Summer 1981
"The tides of immigration turned
negative: were characterized by the losers of political history...the
Italians and the Irish... the dull-spirited and pagan, such as
the Scandinavians... and by peoples to whom the tenets of our
republic were altogether alien, such as the hieratic Jews....
"Negroes, Asians and Orientals
(is Japan the exception?); Hispanics, Latins and Eastern Europeans;
have no temperament for democracy, never had, and probably never
will...
"As the genetic racial pool
in the United States from which the democratic government originally
derived is dissipated in successive tides of immigration, our
country is being overwhelmed."
--Reid Buckley, Summer/1984
A Summer 1983 article denounced the "deliberate lies"
of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, including "We hold
these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
Until the late 1990s, Boyd Cathey was listed alongside
Pat Buchanan as a senior advisor to Southern Partisan. As late
as1992, Cathey was an editorial advisor to The Journal of Historical
Review, the leading journal of Holocaust denial.
--Legal Times, 2/26/1996
"Southern Partisan" on Secession:
"The best hope, perhaps the
only hope, for the South lies in an independent Southern nation,
where we can at last be free to pursue the life we desire."
--Third Quarter/1997
****
The public relies on media to expose cabinet
nominees to tough scrutiny, but so far most of the mainstream
media haven't seriously taken up the question of whether Americans
will be well-served by an attorney general who sees Southern
Partisan's bigotry and revisionist history as patriotic "straight"
talk.
Some results of Adolf Ashcroft's
policy:
America's
Thought Police
See also:
Talkin'
John Ashcroft Paranoid Blues
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