Fight Anti-Terrorism Measures! Re: Antiwar movement procustean bed

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>>  I'd rather see left-wingers spend more time & energy
>>  fighting
>>  anti-terrorism measures taken by the U.S. government
>>  that violate
>>  civil rights & liberties than criticizing the
>>  WWP/IAC/ANSWER.
>
>Spoken like a true IAC person!  Excuse me...what do we
>tell the American people who are justifiably angry
>about the 5000 or so people who were killed in New
>York City...I do think that is a question that MUST be
>debated...And the IAC/WWP sleight of hand (saying that
>it is sectarian and we must not argue but unite around
>the IAC/WWPs' principles of unity) is not going to
>make the issue disappear.
>
>-Thomas

As it happens, I'm not a member of the IAC.  However, as I am not a 
U.S. citizen either, any call to "bring the perpetrators to justice" 
sounds to me like a call to make my life & lives of those under 
similar or worse circumstances more difficult than before.  More than 
1.000 are already detained, with much of the circumstances of their 
arrests held in secrecy; foreign students' educational files are 
being combed by law enforcement officers without the students' 
consent or even knowledge; racial profiling has expanded & 
intensified; etc.  Then, add the new Anti-Terrorism Act to the 
already existing problems....
-- 
Yoshie

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