Punkvoter.com Calls on Attorney General Ashcroft to Testify about the Real Abuses of the PATRIOT ACT

U.S. Newswire, July, 2004

PITTSBURGH, July 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Drummer Pat Thetic of the band Anti-Flag issued an open letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft today citing his concerns about the use of the PATRIOT ACT and the lack of information that the Justice Department seems to be willing to share -- even with members of Congress. As an example, he specifically mentions a Justice Department investigation into the participants in a Nov. 15, 2003 anti-war protest on the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Even though members of the US Senate have inquired about the use of the PATRIOT ACT in this specific case and the chilling affect it has had on anti-war protestors nationally -- Ashcroft's office has yet to give any meaningful review of how the PATRIOT ACT is being used and abused....