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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ed Huang who wrote (23896)	3/26/2003 10:29:14 AM
From: Ed Huang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Door-to-Door Biggest FBI Investigation Since 9/11; Critics Say Visits Trample Muslim Liberties By Pierre Thomas March 25 — In the largest FBI investigation since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, federal agents will try to interview 11,000 Iraqi-Americans and Iraqi visitors to the United States by the end of this week, sources told ABCNEWS. abcnews.go.com

To: Ed Huang who wrote (23896)	3/27/2003 4:09:31 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Regime change in America.... McCarthy's ghost Democracy is under threat in the United States; anyone who objects to the conflict in Iraq is not allowed to say so Gary Younge Thursday March 27, 2003 The Guardian It's drive time with WABC's rightwing talkshow host, Curtis Sliwa, and Bill is on the line from the Poconos in Pennsylvania with a tale so funny he can hardly share it for giggling. He was carrying an American flag and yelling support for the troops in a delayed St Patrick's Day parade over the weekend when he saw one woman carrying a sign saying: "No blood for oil". "She was wearing black and she was an older lady," says Bill. "And then our sheriff saw her and she didn't have a permit. So they put her in the back of the truck car and hauled her away." On its own, Bill's story would be aberrant - the tale of an overzealous legal official and an unfortunate woman in smalltown America. Increasingly though it is becoming consistent. The harassment, arrest, detention and frustration of those who are against the war is becoming routine. Relatives of victims who died on September 11, who are opposed to the war, have been prevented from speaking in schools. Last month Stephen Downs was handcuffed and arrested after refusing to take off a Give Peace a Chance T-shirt in a mall in Albany. He was told he would have been found guilty of trespass if the mall had not dropped the case because of the bad publicity. As Iraqi civilians and American, British and Iraqi soldiers perish in the Gulf, this war is fast claiming another casualty - democracy in the US. This process is not exclusive to America. Civil liberties have suffered in Britain because of the war in Northern Ireland, and are undergoing further erosion because of the conflict. [...] guardian.co.uk