Attorney General John Ashcroft, you are my
man, but you are wrong.
According to the 1st Amendment, there can be
no interference with the Freedom of Speech. By edict, you have muzzled the
voice of Timothy McVeigh. There is no doubt that McVeigh deserves to die and
soon for the Oklahoma City bombing deaths, but you have overstepped your
bounds by limiting him to one 15 minute call per day to reporters. If a
reporter without a national reputation wants to get McVeigh's story, he is
out of luck, even though McVeigh would like to talk to him. McVeigh is
allowed to call a reporter once per day for 15 minutes, but if he does not
recognize the name of the strange reporter, he is not about to call him.
Shame, Mr. Ashcroft!! If you are doing this to save the rest of us from
McVeigh's poisoned and faulty logic, think again! If we as a nation are not
mature enough to reject a flawed theory when we hear it, then we are not
worthy of living in a representative democracy. The authors of our
Constitution and the Bill of Rights had this sort of scenario in mind when
they toiled over those documents. No government can tell its subjects what
to think. To deny their subjects exposure to a different logic, or in this
case, illogic, is essentially telling us what to think, You are wrong, Mr.
Ashcroft, and if Mr. Bush (who is also my man) suggested this action, then
he also is wrong. Let the man spew his venom. We are not children.
There are those who still have questions about Ruby Ridge. Questions about
the government’s stand at Waco. Indeed, there are still questions about
the Kennedy assassination. If you can muzzle one man no matter how guilty he
is, can you muzzle others? Where would this power end? Execute McVeigh, of
course, but do not gag him. If you continue, then it follows that I am next.