Wired Is Running A Piece in which Viet Dinh is interviewed. They say he has been called a “political pit bull” and “a foot soldier” for Attorney General John Ashcroft. But the 36-year-old author of the Patriot Act prefers to be called an “attendant of freedom.”
“I have the utmost respect for those who engage in this (national conversation), even when I am unfairly maligned because those persons are willing to engage in order to advance the national conversation and contribute meaningfully to our process of governance. Somebody once said that democracy is not a spectator sport. We should all applaud each other for getting into the game and risking injury because of it, because at the end of the day we all win if we do engage.“
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Blake, Zetter’s hit piece on Viet Dinh was posted to LISNews over a month ago.
Hey, have you heard that John Ashcroft is in surgery?
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Maybe all of us just wanted to make sure YOU read it, conservator…You always seem like such a busy guy…AND it’s fair and balanced. The intrepid Viet Dinh gets a forum where he can explain he’s our friend, not like the others…
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Aw nuts. Well, I bet someone else missed it as well.
Ashcroft is in surgery? For what? Now that sounds like news!
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We believe it really is the gall-stone removal this time. That was delayed due to the heart transplant done instead, as witness his action to defend the right of a young woman in Kansas to wear her headscarf as an observant Muslim. Yes, a change of heart: religious tolerance now abounds at the D.O.J. – perhaps some of those detainments will be looked into…