Democracy is not a “core value:” [super annoying auto-play video at Daily Caller link]
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft threw a core principle of Bush-era foreign policy under the bus Tuesday night, when he said that democracy is not the core American value, liberty is.
Speaking to a packed house at the first night of the inaugural In Defense of Christians summit in Washington, D.C., Ashcroft said that “I sometimes think that in the U.S. we have misplaced our core values,” particularly when it comes to foreign policy. “We seem to think democracy is the ultimate value… It’s not the ultimate value. Liberty is, the value with which God endowed us at creation.”
Yeah. All those wars we fought to bring democracy to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan? Fuck ’em.
I can’t believe this fucknut was our chief law enforcement officer for, like, the actual United States.
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Liberty…provided you’re a fundie Xtian anti-choice ‘merikun male. And you’ve gotta love the “Defense of Christians” title. They think their present state is one of oppression.
Un-effing-believable.
Wingnuts that I know (some pose as Libertarians) say that America is not a democracy, it’s a republic. So there, silly demonrats! This has been one of the tropes for a couple of years now, Ashcroft is behind the times.
“We seem to think democracy is the ultimate value… It’s not the ultimate value. Liberty is, the value with which God endowed us at creation.”
Yo, Johnny, I have your sneering testimony about “phantoms of lost liberty” from way back when you were helping stampede the Patriot Act through. Feel free to cram the transcript up your authoritarian ass.