NP Asscroft Speaks

Otto Sell o.sell at telda.net
Tue Jan 30 17:54:28 CST 2001


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Subject: NP Asscroft Speaks


> Here is the text of John Ashcroft's much-maligned speech at Bob Jones
> University...
>

> A slogan of the American Revolution, which was so distressing to the
> emissaries of the king that it was found in correspondence sent back
> to England, was the line, "We have no king but Jesus."
>
> Tax collectors came asking for that which belonged to the king, and
> colonists frequently said, "We have no king but Jesus." It found its
> way into the fundamental documents of this great country.
>

Is he trying to tell all of you yankees in that "great country" not to pay
taxes anymore under the Bush-government...?

Otto





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