I've said before (and you can read why here and here) that people should get to know the name John Yoo. He is to America's newfound zeal to set aside 200-plus years of traditional values on everything from torture to civil liberties and government snooping, what Paul Wolfowitz was to the invasion of Iraq. More on Yoo here.
Professor Yoo apparently doesn't believe there are any serviceable limits to presidential power and authority over American citizens -- his views would be more at home in the old Soviet Union or modern day North Korea, Saudi Arabia or Zimbabwe than they are in the United States, but here he is, giving life to Dick Cheney's dark vision of a surveilled and subjugated America, ripe for the picking by big corporations, and scared stupid into worshipping the president like pitiful lemmings (otherwise known as "conservatives.") Yoo is one of the former Clarence Thomas clerks running around the place (Laura Ingraham is another). He wrote about Thomas here, when Uncle Thom's name was being circulated as a possible Chief Justice ...
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dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
