How not to fight against terrorism

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/08/21/mcfeat08-21-2004.html

excerpt:

The New York Times, for example, reported on Abdullah al Kidd, an American citizen who played basketball at the University of Idaho and was a doctoral student in Islamic studies. He was handcuffed and arrested in March 2003 at Dulles International Airport near Washington on suspicion of knowing a suspected terrorist. He said he sat naked in isolation for hours, imprisoned and eventually forced to live in a small apartment with his in-laws instead of returning to school. The legal justification for holding him was the federal material-witness law. A few weeks ago, having never been charged with a crime or called as a witness in any case, he was released.

Meanwhile, he's lost his scholarship and his wife and his daughter and his reputation.

This should make the blood of every American boil. It is as frightening as the arrest of any innocent citizen in any of the world's worst dictatorships. But it happened a few miles from the U.S. Capitol, the White House, the Pentagon and the Justice Department, which condoned it. About 60 other Americans have been held under the material-witness law since 9/11.

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as the definition of "terrorist" is expanded to mean liberals, environmentalists, Democrats....look what they did to Teddy Kennedy on flying. Their plan is to make this into a facist dictatorship.