They have begun pulling mildly leftist white people off of airplanes. It's time for the rest of us to get very worried.
The evidence is rolling in, and it is unmistakable: the Bush people are assembling purely political lists of individuals and groups to be targeted during some future crisis, real or manufactured. The list makers probably do not yet know what they plan to do to the people on their enemies lists, which are still fragmented among various agencies. However, once such lists are compiled, eventual government action becomes all but inevitable. It is already clear that the list will be a very long one, reaching into broad categories of what the current rulers consider to be dangerous dissenters.
Civil rights lawyers, Green Party activists and even the Catholic advocacy group Peace Action are on the lists, as are, it appears, Amnesty International and various environmental activist organizations.
In an article titled "Grounded," the mainstream Salon.com related the experience of Center for Constitutional Rights assistant legal director Barbara Olshansky, who was forced to pull down her pants in view of other travelers at Newark International Airport. When the lawyer protested the indignity, a security agent replied, "The computer spit you out. I don't know why, and I don't have time to talk to you about it."
The evidence is rolling in, and it is unmistakable: the Bush people are assembling purely political lists of individuals and groups to be targeted during some future crisis, real or manufactured. The list makers probably do not yet know what they plan to do to the people on their enemies lists, which are still fragmented among various agencies. However, once such lists are compiled, eventual government action becomes all but inevitable. It is already clear that the list will be a very long one, reaching into broad categories of what the current rulers consider to be dangerous dissenters.
Civil rights lawyers, Green Party activists and even the Catholic advocacy group Peace Action are on the lists, as are, it appears, Amnesty International and various environmental activist organizations.
In an article titled "Grounded," the mainstream Salon.com related the experience of Center for Constitutional Rights assistant legal director Barbara Olshansky, who was forced to pull down her pants in view of other travelers at Newark International Airport. When the lawyer protested the indignity, a security agent replied, "The computer spit you out. I don't know why, and I don't have time to talk to you about it."