Fining the Human Shields

John Ashcroft wants to fine those people who went to Iraq to be human shields against the Iraqi/U.S. war.
They can either pay a $10,000 fine or face up to 7 years in jail.
Please, will someone pull the stick out of that guy's ass? He concerns himself with trivia. First it was covering the bare breasts of a bronze statue, now this.
The man is ridiculous.
When will this administration of extremists and paranoids end?