John Ashcroft was another cog in the right-wing nutjob US administration of George W. Bush.  As US Attorney General he was pat of numerous repressions of the freedom of American citizens and of any person visiting the United States.  All in the, publicly stated, name of protecting Americans. In truth Ashcroft and the rest of the Bush administration was simply going about their business of keeping the US population controlled through fear.  Oh I’m sure they did actually stop some threats and attacks, but the way they went about it did damage to the US culture and reputation that will take a generation to repair.  This fear allowed Bush and his cronies to make sweeping cultural and economic changes designed primarily to financially benefit Bush’s friends and allies. All this is common knowledge though.  I’m just rambling on in the pretence of generating some background story for the picture. In the midst of it all, someone took offense to Mr. Ashcroft’s supposed problems with the statue of the “Spirit of Justice”.  ...

Here's a clue you jackass: merge lanes are to be used for matching the speed of traffic and then safely entering the flow of traffic. You, on the other hand, seem to believe that merge lanes are for getting in front of as many people as possible and then entering the flow of traffic regardless of whether or not it is safe to do so. Buddy, you missed my front bumper by 2 or 3 inches. Just because you had your signal on does not give you the right to barge over into my lane. It's hardly my fault that you were running out of lane, that would be your fault. But over you came anyway. Then you sped up and cut in front of someone else when that merge lane ended. 4 kilometres later you were all of four car lengths in front of me stopped at the same red light I was stopped at. Driving like a fucking moron and endangering the lives of all those around you so you could be 40 feet ...