On edit: can't get the long link to work right.
Use the short one: http://tinyurl.com/cu69fBy Ted Rall
Tue Apr 26, 9:00 PM ET
Feds Arrest Girls for Teen Snottiness
They've vanished into the netherworld of a Homeland Security gulag and their story has already disappeared from the headlines, but the shocking case of two 16-year-old girls from New York City arrested a month ago ought to inspire outrage among every American worthy of the name. Since the government's reasons for the girls' imprisonment could apply to virtually any teenager, it should also spark fear.
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Right now, however, two girls from New York City are rotting in a HomeSec prison in Pennsylvania for doing nothing more than I did--one for fighting with her parents and writing an essay, the other accused of being her friend.
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Without a warrant, NYPD detectives and federal agents burst into the girl's home--no wonder they don't have time to look for Osama!--where they "searched her belongings and confiscated her computer and the essays that she had written as part of a home schooling program," say her family. "One essay concerned suicide...
asserted that suicide is against Islamic law." The family is Bangladeshi. They are Muslim. That, coupled with the mere mention of suicide bombing in her essay, was enough to put the fuzz on high alert.
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Based solely on an essay written by one of the two, the FBI says both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to become suicide bombers." But the feds admit that they have no evidence to back their suspicions. Nothing.
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I don't remember hearing anything about this. Anyone else know more?
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