The Ashcroft Libertarians - You

The Ashcroft Libertarians - You know the type.

Before January of 2001, the only civil liberty they really cared about was abortion. The Second Amendment bothered them. They shrugged their shoulders at the Clinton-era erosions of civil liberties, like the property forfeiture laws, which allowed cops unprecedented authority to seize property of anyone accused of drug violations. They though the 1994 Crime Bill was good - for the children, probably.

They thought Libertarians were fevered backwoods yahoos who needed to adjust the tinfoil under their grain-company caps.

But since John Ashcroft became Attorney General, we suddenly have a new generation of Jeffersonians. Suddenly civil liberties are sacrosanct.