[geoschmo]

Yes, I suspect that this "camp" thing is at it's root an intellectual exercise. Much as people on the other end of the political spectrum from Ashcroft et al would speculate about how communism would be the ideal social situation if not for the tendency towards totaliarianism, or that free universal health care for all is a noble cause worth fighting for. Hopefully the checks and balances inherant in the system, of which the press is an very important one, would over time keep these excesses on either end from becoming accepted. The mere fact that Ashcroft would contemplate whether of not such things would be good to do does not invalidate him for office as the author of the article suggests. Contemplating something and doing it are two very different things.

Geo