Indicted Quotes
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The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.
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More Indicted Quotes
The atrocities for which [members of the Derg regime] are now collectively indicted can tempt the unwary into nostalgia for Haile Selassie. It is easy to forget that the emperor used to authorise public hangings, that his opponents were routinely tortured, that courtiers who fell from grace were not only jailed but frequently held in chains as well, and that concepts of justice, liberty and democracy were effectively outlawed from public debate.
selassie, haile i, of ethiopia— Jonathan Dimbleby in Feeding on Ethiopia's Famine in The Independent, 8 December 1998
I’ve been indicted for rules that don’t even exist
tom delay— Interview with The Hill, Dec. 11, 2006,
The "line of the day" among administration spokesmen, confronted by masses of destitute and terrified refugees and solid reports of the mass execution of civilians, is to say that "we expected this to happen." They did? (They never told anyone.) If they want to avoid being indicted for war crimes themselves, these "spokesmen" had better promise us that they were lying when they said that.
christopher hitchens— "Bloody blundering: Clinton's cluelessness is selling out Kosovo", , 5 April 1999 : On the Kosovo War
[for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (...) it isn’t right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails.
franco frattini— Interview by Il Giornale (28 April 2008)
