December 19, 2002

  • Don’t worry. YOU’RE not Muslim. YOU haven’t done anything wrong… Have you?

    Sometimes I wonder what country I live in.

    Note that the Justice Department won’t tell us how many have been so detained. This is not justice, and it does not reduce the terrorist threat. It simply makes people vanish, without a trace.

    Now is the time to be asking yourself: If you were a German in the 1940s, and you objected to the death camps, what would you have done?

    Hundreds of Muslim Immigrants Rounded Up in Calif.
    Thu Dec 19,12:05 AM ET

    By Jill Serjeant

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hundreds of Iranian and other Middle East citizens were in southern California jails on Wednesday after coming forward to comply with a new rule to register with immigration authorities only to wind up handcuffed and behind bars.

    Shocked and frustrated Islamic and immigrant groups estimate that more than 500 people have been arrested in Los Angeles, neighboring Orange County and San Diego in the past three days under a new nationwide anti-terrorism program. Some unconfirmed reports put the figure as high as 1,000.

    The arrests sparked a demonstration by hundreds of Iranians outside a Los Angeles immigration office. The protesters carried banners saying “What’s next? Concentration camps?” and “What happened to liberty and justice?.”

    A spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service said no numbers of people arrested would be made public. A Justice Department spokesman could not be reached for comment.

Comments (7)

  • This is really scary stuff. I’m starting to run out of words for how appalled, angry, frightened, confused, shocked I am every time I hear a new story about what’s conspiring in the U.S. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t feel exempt because I’m white, north of the border and not planning on heading south any time soon. It’s only a matter of time.

  • Sick.

  • Yes, sick, disgusting, it leaves me with an apprehensive cold emptiness in my gut.  Did we not learn anything from the internment of Americans of Japanese descent at Manzanar six decades ago?  This madness is un-American.  Amerika lives.

  • This is ridiculous, against the constitution, and just plain against logic.

    This is what it has come down to.  This.  All of this is ours.

    Come, join me in wallowing.

  • Sad, so sad…and one hears so little of this on the news.  That this is where i find it is a bit scary, eh?

  • yeah…. this is wrong in so many ways….

  • this makes me ill. i want to have kool-aid.

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