don't forget that antiwar activists, environmentalists, and even Senator Edward Kennedy himself are among those the admin calls "suspected terrorists." We're not talking about actual terrorism suspects, we're talking about people on the Bush admin's
secret watch lists.It's ironic that many of the same people who oppose secret watch lists, secret evidence evaluated by secret tribunals, and lack of due process or appeal, become
supporters of Gonzales and the administration as soon as Gonzo added the word "gun" to the "OMG terrah!" song and dance...
As someone pointed out in the
other thread, the administration's secret terrah watch lists include
antiwar activists and
people placed on the list just to meet a quota, as well as people put on the list as
babies.
No-fly blacklist snares political activistsOne detainment forced a group of 20 Wisconsin anti-war activists to miss their flight, delaying their trip to meet with congressional representatives by a day. That case and others are raising questions about the criteria federal authorities use to place people on the list -- and whether people who exercise their constitutional right to dissent are being lumped together with terrorists.
I, for one, don't want to live in a country where Alberto "no such thing as habeus corpus" Gonzales gets to deny people basic rights because he or his cronies deem them
possibly subversive--and remember that those "subversive activities" include antiwar activism, advocacy of environmental causes, etc.
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