[lit-ideas] Re: Amis Antithesis
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:21:37 -0700
Normal Americans, for the non-sentient, are Americans who don't want to blow
up other Americans. Color is optional.
I looked all the way through my inbox for 9-18 & didn't find the article you
refer to. Sometimes articles don't make it to my inbox. But frankly I
don't care. There is a debate about the interpretation of Article 3 of the
Geneva Convention. The president is willing to compromise. A compromise is
being worked on. I'm just not very interested. Sorry.
10,000 suspected terrorists rounded up in a nation of 300,000,000. Is that
good or bad? Maybe they weren't working very hard at it. Maybe they should
have rounded up 30,000. Getting all worked up about suspected terrorists
losing their civil rights just isn't something I can get worked up about.
In fact I wouldn't mind if they expanded their net to round up people guilty
of breaking the following law:
[1] Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war
against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two
witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. [from
http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Text+of+the+Constitution+of+the+United
+States ]
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Amis Antithesis
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From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I read you doing your short little angry jab thing but no presenting of
> Civil Rights we had lost.
It was sent Sept. 18th, 7:37 pm. Check your mail. Shall I resend it?
> Mike imagined the current law migrating into
> someone coming out to San Jacinto to haul me off, but other than that I
> don't recall any indication of normal Americans, i.e., Americans not
> suspected of being involved with Terrorism being taken away.
By "normal" Americans, you mean "white Americans."
Over ten thousand people in the USA have been detained or arrested under
various pretences
of "terrorist roundups." 8,000 Arabs were questioned by the FBI and not a
single one was
arrested.
Five darkies (not "normal" Americans) in Miami were arrested on charges that
they wanted to
blow up Chicago. They are members of a sect that sells hair care products.
Not a single one
was charged with anything. There was no case.
Two Arabs were arrested for the crime of buying cellphones. The clerk at
Walmart called the
Texas police and they were arrested. The police announced they had stopped
an al-Qaeda
operation. It turns out the Arabs bought the 1,000 cell phones in Texas,
which they planned
to resell in Michigan at a $5 profit per cell phone. After a few weeks, the
Arabs were
released. However, the police stole the 1,000 cell phones and the laptop
computer. The Arabs
lost their $25,000.
There are countless more stories like this. American citizens held without
charges, without
bail, for years, people deported for no reason, and so on, none of whom were
involved with
terrorism. Their crime was the color of their skin.
But these aren't "normal" Americans, so you don't care.
> As to the
> three Republicans opposing Bush, I'm not seeing that as a serious matter.
> In his speech he said he proposed something and was willing to negotiate.
> Now they will be negotiating. I'm failing to see a problem here.
Are you really so determined to ignore reality?
The GOP senators are saying this will seriously damage the USA. And you fail
to see a
problem? But of course you do, with your eyes shut.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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