Ashcroft Saves Us From Dangerous Radical

Here’s an infuriating story that I hope will get picked up and blogged into the American media’s myopic attention. I got it from Lisa English, who apparently picked it up from Jimmy Breslin. Of course, you could say that Breslin is part of the mainstream media, but Lisa points out that his story has gone nowhere.

It should. It’s an outrage—the latest manifestation of the erosion of freedom under Bush/Ashcroft.

Seems that the Irish revolutionary hero, Bernadette Devlin, (remember her?) now a grandmother, wants to visit an aging friend who lives in the U.S. Ashcroft’s thugs won’t let her (more)