Civil Rights & Liberties or "White Privileges"?

[Kelley]

At 07:21 PM 11/4/01 -0500, Chris Kromm wrote:
>Yoshie wrote:
>Well, one of these days, it may come to that we all get shot dead
>without such "survival skills," but we are not there yet.  We don't
>_want_ to be there, in fact.  Get outraged now, resist while you can,
>so we'll never have to get used to surviving under the fascist state.
>- --
>
>Amen! I would also point out that there's a school of thought -- put forward
>by many of the African-American, Arab-American, Latino, etc. radicals I hang
>out with -- that it's cool for whites to use their "white skin privilege"
>(however tenuous it may be in particular circumstances) to highlight issues
>such as this.

not the part,below, on my first post on this thread where i said: They set 
out to make her miserable, she resisted civilly (as she should. yay! for 
her), they intimidated her in response. <That's the way it works and that's 
what ought to be highlighted, not some gestures at conspiracy.

thank for your apology too, Chris.  I've never asked for an apology on a 
list before, but this is assholery at it's finest with yoshie, as usual, 
leading the pack and i'm fucking tired of it.

From: Kelley <kwalker2 at gte.net>
At 11:17 AM 11/3/01 -0800, Miles Jackson wrote:


>I'm glad our lawyer verified my common sense reaction that this is
>blatantly illegal.  Does the USA Patriot Act really sanction this kind
>of erasure of the Bill of Rights?  You don't need to be a libertarian
>to find this mighty scary.
>
>Miles

well, this isn't the first time that this has happened. peace activists who 
are known are marked for search. i sent a post here from Rohit Kahare. he 
mentioned that he was marked for a searched, as was a young woman with a 
antiwar tee-shirt and nose ring. Oden was branded because of her antiwar 
activism. this sucks. but it also sucks that the friggin' forwards that 
were sent here didn't exactly get the story right. i am so fucking sick and 
tired of having people like Declan McCullagh look into it, only to find 
that the left couldn't just present that case--it was bad enough on its own 
merits--without twisting it to make it sound like the Feds had set out to 
consciously prevent her from flying. They set out to make her miserable, 
she resisted civilly (as she should. yay! for her), they intimidated her in 
response. <That's the way it works and that's what ought to be highlighted, 
not some gestures at conspiracy.