Some Reasoning Behind Ashcroft's Behavior

[erpowers]

Everyone here knows that Ashcroft is an extremely religious person. We have all heard the story of how his father anointed him with oil before he took each of his jobs. However, I am not sure anyone has dealt with what the anointing of kings in old testament time meant. I was reading the bible this morning and found something very interesting. According to an explaination of anointing a king was an indication "that the king had been chosen by God himself." In went on to explain "that questioning the authority of a king was like questioning God's authority" It is quit possible that Ashcroft thinks he has been anointed by God and that he should not be questioned. This could also explain why Ashcroft believes the government has a right to snoop into people's private lives.

[Racenut20]

1. I have known him

Since he was a peon in the Missouri Republican Party and have yet to come to any logical reasoning as to what he thinks or his behavior.

[salinen]

3. Understanding Ashcroft

could ruin a person

[SheilaT]

2. You are absolutely right.

I'm not at all familiar with the Bible verses in question, but Ashcroft has been a lifelong member of a fundamentalist sect and so has all these beliefs that are very much out of the mainstream, only he honestly doesn't understand that.

Never forget that the people of Missouri preferred a dead man over him as Senator in 2000. Unfortunately, that preference gave us this truly evil man (once referred to here on DU as the most dangerous man in America, on an early Top Ten Conservative Idiots) as attorney general.

[midwayer]

4. Leo Strauss and Chicago University

Here is the reasoning behind his thinking IMO

http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle08022003.html

"My Alma Mater is a Moral Cesspool"

Neo-Cons, Fundies, Feddies and the University of Chicago

++++++++++++++++++++

Chicago routinely trained me and numerous other students to become ruthless and unprincipled Machiavellians. That is precisely why so many neophyte Neo-con students gravitated towards the University of Chicago or towards Chicago Alumni at other universities. The University of Chicago became the "brains" behind the Bush Jr. Empire and his Ashcroft Police State. Attorney General John Ashcroft received his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1967. Many of his "lawyers" at the Department of Injustice are members of the right-wing, racist, bigoted, reactionary, and totalitarian Federalist Society (aka "Feddies"), which originated in part at the University of Chicago.