Office of Violence Against Women gets a scary new director

[mondo joe]

http://feministing.com/archives/006128.html

Mary Beth Buchanan, US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, is set to be OVW's Acting Director.

Buchanan’s claims to fame? She’s an enthusiastic cheerleader of the Patriot Act. (It preserves civil liberties, she says!)

She spent $12 million on "Operation Pipe Dreams," taking down 55 people for selling bongs. This included actor Tommy Chong--in the courtroom, Buchanan introduced his fictional pot-smoking characters as evidence of his "frivolous" attitude towards drug laws.

She’s an anti-obscenity crusader, prosecuting people for written stories on the internet and going after any and all porn...The legal director for the Pittsburgh ACLU once called Buchanan "the vanguard of Ashcroft’s attempt to impose his morality on others."

[Erika]

1. W is appointing as many right wing wackos he can before January

He's done it to GAO, Family Planning, and now this.

He's trying to stack the deck with the fanatics while he has the power.

[azurnoir]

2. A good kristian women

I am sure she will do her best to protect women from abuse, unless of course they deserved it.
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[mondo joe]

4. Sure - when she's not busy fighting Bongs and porn. nt

[Left Is Write]

3. The Patriot Act preserves civil rights?

Like as in, War is Peace?

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Considering some of Bush's other appointments, I was sure you

were going to say Mike Tyson.

[sakabatou]

6. AUGH!

[justgamma]

7. Thank goodness!!

I figured he would appoint someone who regularly beats his wife. After all, that's the way Shrub usually appoints people.

[Phredicles]

8. Yeah. I figured it would be OJ...

:puke:

[VenusRising]

9. Par for the course, really.

Look at all the oddball assignments he has made when it comes to women's issues: a vet for women's health, a guy who doesn't believe in contraceptives in charge of Planned Parenthood, and now this lady. Let's not even talk about the Arabian Horse Association and Brownie! He is not interested in doing anything for the country. It is all a selfish power grab for him and his buddies.

To be fair, though, we all know that bongs are inherently violent toward women. :sarcasm: