Bush admin pulling visas of Marxist intellectuals
    Bradford DeLong 
    delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
       
    Fri Oct 11 16:03:26 PDT 2002
    
    
  
>[This is from the excellent Turkish political economist Sungur 
>Savran, who's been a guest on my radio show twice. Please spread far 
>& wide.]
>
>Dear Friends,
>
>This is a circular letter aiming to warn friends living in the US 
>about the treatment meted out to Dr.Haluk Gerger, one of the 
>foremost Marxist intellectuals and human rights activists of Turkey, 
>by the Bush administration and the INS. This incident is even graver 
>than that experienced by Tariq Ali at the beginning of this year as 
>he was flying out of Germany, since as I will shortly explain, this 
>was methodical and deliberate whereas in Tariq Ali's case a lot of 
>bureaucratic stupidity and overshooting was involved. Hence it is 
>clear proof that, in its attack on civil liberties, first and 
>foremost those of aliens, the Bush administration targets not only 
>so-called Islamic terrorists...
He does realize that use of the phrase "so-called Islamic terrorists" 
makes me and everybody to my right stop reading immediately?
If not, someone should clue him in...
Brad DeLong
    
    
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