{"id":174,"date":"2002-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:53:32","slug":"the-mans-name-is-john-ashcroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/01\/the-mans-name-is-john-ashcroft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man’s Name is John Ashcroft"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things that make me smile: The John Ashcroft Snow
\nGlobe<\/a>, brought to us by an irreverent artist. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

\nRemember America before Homeland Security? Before racial profiling
\nbecame
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\nthe norm? When our streets, homes and offices were safe and our civil
\nliberties still free?<\/p>\n

\nAttorney General John Ashcroft is the symbol of a new patriotism, an
\nAmerica where civil liberties are now personal liabilities; a land of
\nhollow security and mounting intolerance.<\/p>\n

\nEach snow globe, hand-sculpted and hand-assembled by artists, comes with a
\nwindup music movement of “White Christmas,” a bust of the Attorney General
\nin ivory resin and, of course, white snow.
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