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Ashcroft Justice Department Protects Terrorist "Gun Rights" While Putting Americans at Risk


As many as 35 shot at Indiana factory 12/7 A BuzzFlash Editorial Commentary: TO APPEASE THE GUN LOBBY, ASHCROFT BETRAYS THE WAR ON TERRORISM ASHCROFT'S BETRAYAL OF AMERICA: TO APPEASE NRA, HE WON'T LET FBI CHECK ON WHETHER ALLEGED TERRORISTS AND DETAINEES PURCHASED GUNS IN U.S. HE WANTS TO PROTECT "THEIR GUN RIGHTS." OUR ATTORNEY GENERAL NEEDS TO RESIGN IN SHAME! 12/6 Attorney general accuses critics of controversial anti-terror measures of aiding the terrorists. 12/7 Is Mullah Omar About to Surrender? 12/6 Slow Down Fast Track! 12/6 Message to John Ashcroft: Why are You Protecting the Gun Lobby When We Need to Know if Alleged Terrorists Purchased Guns? You're Under Oath Now, Sir. 12/6 Enron Execs Got $55 Million Just Before Bankruptcy! Congress Must "Support and Defend the Constitution" 12/6 Polaroid, in Chap 11, Seeks Exec Bonuses 12/7 Civil Rights Chairman Rebuffs Bush Bid; Bush is Trying to Unseat Her Because She Doesn't Say Nice Things About Him or His Brother in Florida. We Think She's Right. 12/7 The BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Get News Fast! Sign up for BuzzFlash Alerts, the fastest and easiest way to keep abreast of breaking news and commentary (see bottom of the right column). Click here for the latest alert. U.S. Won't Protect Taliban's Omar 12/7 An Anti-Taliban Commander Says bin Laden's Top Aide Is Dead 12/7 The Taliban Reportedly Agree to Surrender Kandahar 12/7 Ashcroft on His High Horse. Just Call It Arrogance 12/7 As Refugees Suffer, Supplies Sit Unused Near Afghan Border 12/6 Holiday Gifts For You -- Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! Send Us an E-mail With Delivery Gift Information to BuzzFlash@BuzzFlash.com. Perfect Holiday Gifts! "The sudden seizure of power by the executive branch, bypassing all constitutional checks and balances, is beginning to be recognized by cooler heads in the White House, Defense Department and C.I.A. as more than a bit excessive." 12/6 ANTI-FAMILY PLANNING CLINIC TERRORIST ARRESTED IN OHIO 12/6 Bush Incorporated Lets Ari Fleischer Viciously Attack the Head of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Heck, the Bush Crew Doesn't Hold Civil Rights in High Regard. We Know That. 12/7 Names of Deportees to Enter Database 12/6 Bush Skipping Pearl Harbor Anniversary. Bet He Goes to a BaseBall Game or Camp David. 12/6 From Slate: Is it in Bush's political interest to prolong the war? 12/7 Government Agencies Limit Information Access 12/7 Anti-Terrorism Laws: Too Much of a Good Thing 12/6 Getting Burned by Bush's Economic "Stimulus for the Rich" Plan 12/7 "The gap between rich and poor is the foundation of religious, ethnic, cultural and ideological conflicts." 12/7 U.S. Brakes NATO-Russia Embrace 12/7 Whatever You Do, Don't Link to KPMG! 12/7 Wash. Times: "Senate Democrats call Scalia nomination dead." Rep. Santorium Thinks It Was Retribution For the "Perceived Sins of [Scalia's] Father." Did It Cross Anyone's Mind That He Just Wasn't Qualified? Oh, AND the Perceived Sins of Scalia. 12/6 "As part of efforts to improve the clarity of information given to investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned this week that it will crack down on companies that use creative accounting methods to pump up poor earnings results." 12/7 Treat the Army of God as a Terrorist Organization 12/7 Unless You're A Big Contributor to Bush, The Only White House Decorations You'll See Are Online. 12/7 CDC Sets 'Tips' on Handling Mail 12/7 Russian Police Arrest Seven Over Uranium Sale Bid 12/7 So, FBI, What About Bob? 12/6 The church acts to seal a record $5.2-million settlement deal in alleged sexual molestation by a priest at Santa Margarita High in California 12/7 Phillip Morris Tries to Hide Behind a New Name, ALTRIA, And Screws a Small Healthcare Company in the Process 12/6 Some Arab Leaders Privately Pressure Arafat 12/6	Senator Says Enron Violated 401law, Should Pay 12/6 Bork Wants American "Terrorists" Tried Before Military Tribunals Too. This is a Guy Who Wished Ill Upon Clinton. 12/7 Message to LA Schools: It's the Real Guns You Should be Worried About... 12/7 The Transparent Double Standard of a Conservative Website 12/7 "Some important stories are getting buried by war news." BuzzFlash Fills the Void. 12/6 Rooting Out Terrorists Just Became Harder 12/6 GET THIS: BUSH PROMISES TO VETO DEFENSE BILL BECAUSE OF FUNDS TO FIGHT TERRORISM WANTED BY DEMOCRATS! 12/6 The One and Only Gene Lyon. Anything He Write is Great. 12/6 Hamas "Rescues" Leader from Arafat's Efforts at Detention 12/6 The Selling of the President 12/6 Linda Tripp May Lose Her Home. What Goes Round, Comes Round. 12/6 The December 5th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia "Censorship and partisan coverage of events in Afghanistan are not causing concern to a US public unused to complicated stories about the world beyond America's shores." 12/6 Anyone Heard of the War Powers Act? 12/6 The White House Endorseth Too Much 12/6 Clinton Breaks Ground for Presidential Library 12/6 What's the Purpose of Insurance if You Pay More if You're Sick? 12/6 Pat Robertson Resigns from Christian Coalition. Could He Have Been Forced Out Because Of The Less-Than-Christian Comments He's Made and His Ties to Liberia? 12/6 You Saw It Here First! "Florida Never Forgets" 12/6 Burglars with Badges 12/6 Young Leaders Ready to Take Afghan Helm 12/6 "I have found myself thinking often lately about the world of George Orwell’s 1984...." 12/6 "But the most fitting final comment on Election 2000 may be the silence of major news outlets in the face of evidence that they misreported the results of their own recount." 12/6 "It's time to recognize that we are, indeed, at war -- to protect the Bill of Rights" 12/6 85 New Jersey Teachers Now Behind Bars. What a Waste! 12/6 Scientists Begin to Open Leahy Anthrax Letter 12/6 Flight 77 Pilot Denied Own Grave at Arlington 12/6 Strom Thurmond is One Year Short of a Century, and the Republicans Won't Let the Poor Guy Retire 12/6 Analysis disputes Florida GOP claims on gains in student spending 12/6 Osama bin Laden Aides Reportedly Killed in Raids 12/6 Dow Ends at 10,114; Nasdaq Rises 84 12/6 For the Bush Administration, Some Countries Can Support Terrorist Groups and Some Can't 12/6 "President George Bush added a new and bizarre twist last night to the folklore surrounding September 11 when he revealed his initial reaction to the first plane hitting the World Trade Centre." 12/6 Make Warnings Clearer or Don't Make Them 12/6 IMF Blocks Loan to Argentina 12/6 Who Will the European Union Brand a Terrorist? 12/6 Crashing Hard Into Adulthood 12/6 "Bush administration hypocritical on terror groups; CNN remains silent" 12/6 "The agency that investigates fraud and abuse inside the Pentagon is getting a poor grade after it was caught cheating on a review of its own performance." 12/6 Waxman Wants Cheney to Provide Details of Any Enron Meetings 12/5 The All-Boy Network: Public Affairs Shows Reflect Shortage of Women in Power 12/6	The Environment in Texas. Let It be a Lesson to the Nation. 12/6 Alleged Faith-Based Child Molesting 12/6 Judge Orders the Release of Three Illinois Men Who Spent 14 Years in Prison for Murder and Rape 12/6 Yes, There Was a Miss Afghanistan and She's Living in Malibu, California 12/6 Lady Bird Johnson at 88 12/6 Will domestic partners of 9/11 victims receive federal benefits? 12/6 Hard Time in Buffalo During the Reign of the "Education" President 12/6 U.S. Holds Off on Peacekeepers 12/6 Canada Has Only One Handgun "Factory"? Boy, are They Lucky. 12/6 Kangaroo Courts Can't Give Justice 12/6 Ex-Chief of Sotheby's Is Convicted of Price Fixing 12/6 If Bush Appointee Gets Seated, Don't Bother Calling It the Civil Rights Commission 12/6 "More children were somehow gaining access to handguns without supervision, allowing them to turn what might have been small acts of aggression into massacres." 12/6 Site of First Anthrax Florida Letter Filled with the Bacteria 12/6 Governors Want More Federal Funds for Security in Their States 12/6 Powell Tells Turks Iraq Will Not be Attacked for the Time Being 12/6 GOP HOLDS UP HOMELESS VETS BILL! 12/5 UNACCEPTABLE: BUSH'S FIRST REACTION TO SEPTEMBER 11th ATTACK: "I used to fly myself, and I said, 'Well, there's one terrible pilot.'" 12/5 Attend "Rising from the Ashes" in New York on December 12th, Organized by Democrats.com 12/4 News Alert: BuzzFlash Adds Content, Thanks Readers! Contribute to BuzzFlash.com and receive the #1 Bestseller: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War: Germs. Bone Up on Anthrax. "But if more people intended to vote for Gore than for Bush in Florida -- as they surely did -- then it is a crime against democracy that he did not win the state and thus the presidency." FOR $35.00, RECEIVE JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL." MUST READ: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW WITH GENE LYONS, A Media Hero 11/26 RECEIVE "TALIBAN: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia" With a $30 Voluntary Subscription to BuzzFlash.com. Yale University Press, #1 on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List (Paperback Nonfiction) A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: THE ORWELLIAN WORLD OF JOHN ASHCROFT 11/27 CONTRIBUTE HERE: HELP KEEP BUZZFLASH A VOICE OF REASON AMIDST A CLAMOR OF RIGHT WING MEDIA SHILLS AND WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARIES TELLING AMERICA TO "SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP" -- AND GET A FREE BUZZFLASH T-SHIRT Want Your Voice Heard? 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Ashcroft Justice Department Protects Terrorist "Gun Rights" While Putting Americans at Risk