I just wanted to clear up that he IS talking about Ashcroft in the article.. if you do a Google Search for "John Ashcroft Confederacy" (sorry, can't link to it since insult sucks :)) you'll get back a fucking laundry list back. Delicious tidbits like this:
In 1998, Ashcroft gave an interview to the Southern Partisan, a South Carolina quarterly promoting the Confederacy. Ashcroft said, "Your magazine also helps set the record straight. You've got a heritage of doing that, of defending Southern patriots like [Robert E.] Lee, [Stonewall] Jackson and Davis. Traditionalists must do more. I've got to do more. We've all got to stand up and speak in this respect, or else we'll be taught that these people were giving their lives, subscribing their sacred fortunes and their honor to some perverted agenda."
Like slavery.
I'm pretty sure what you've said about Rock & Roll isn't right, based on what I've read and seen in the past.. the foundation of "counter-culture" and whatnot.. I dunno..
Tasty bills like the patriot act and it's new friend, the so-called "son-of-patriot act" definetly makes me feel like this is increasingly a police state, but then again, it's my nature to be paranoid and sensative to shit like that.. so take for what it's worth. I guess I'd be the one laughing when America actually does become a police state, but I'd probably be more likely to be crying.. or be in Canada...
Thanks,
JW