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These men have been denied both. Join me in writing to Congress demanding
an investigation into this horrible scheme.
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From: IowaEye@aol.com
To: tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov
Subj:
Mass arrestes of Islamic men in California
Dear
Sen. Harkin:
The recent U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service operation in Los Angeles
County, Calif., is an unconscionable violation of the U.S. Constitution and
the Civil Rights Act. But more importantly, it's a violation of trust.
As you probably already know by now, an estimated 500 men -- mostly Iranians
who escaped to the U.S. following the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah
and installed a brutal theocracy in their home country -- were required to
"register" with authorities on Dec. 16. Although they came voluntarily, they
soon found themselves jailed like the Japanese-Americans that we interned
during World War II, or the Jewish people whom the Germans herded into camps
during the same period.
Now another group, composed of men
from Afghanistan, Lebanon, Eritrea, North Korea, Somalia, Tunisia, the United
Arab Emirates and Yemen, face a Jan. 10 deadline for registration.
Knowing that we've jailed their brethren from other countries, how many of
them do you think are going to show? More importantly, how many of the "terrorists"
this plan was intended to catch are going to show up?
While not making the U.S. one single iota safer, we have managed to violate
our own Constitution and outrage the international community.
Perhaps some of those illegally detained through this operation, who might
have had warm and fuzzy feelings toward the U. S. prior to this outrage, will
now turn to terrorism. And if they did, could you blame them?
I ask you, Sen. Harkin, to call for a full investigation into how this operation
was planned and executed. Not only must this abomination by stopped, but we
must know the thinking that went into its planning so that similar violations
of civil liberties and civil rights do not occur in the future.
Sincerely,
The Iowa Eye
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Hello All,
While I am still unsure of how I feel about the potential for war with Iraq,
I had to share the following with my friends. Please note the name of the
submitter at the bottom of the text - in my opinion, that is a very significant
part of the story.
Cecilia
www.geocities.com/big_iowa_online/
France Meets the USMC -- or -- A United States Marine in Bosnia
(As heard Dec. 13, 2002, on the "Good Morning Show" on KFAB radio in
Omaha, Neb.)
A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia): A French
army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we (Americans)
were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war. He said if such a
thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of France. I told
him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World
War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy
was due to surface at some point in the near future anyway. That is why France
is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of !@#$%&*
for soldiers. I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds
and action, not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support
was only for show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder
85% of the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the French officer was shopping
in the American PX, and not the other way around. He began to get belligerent
at that point, and I told him if he would like to, I would meet him outside
in front of the Burger King and beat his ass in front of the entire Multi-National
Brigade East, thus demonstrating that even the smallest American had more
fight than the average Frenchman. He called me a barbarian cowboy and
walked away in a huff. With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Mary Beth Johnson LtCol, USMC
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