John Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:

> KGII:
>>83-year-old Belgian grandmothers and 8-year-old Chinese kids are
>>not the ones trying to blow us up.
> 
> 
> That kind of thinking worries me. By all means, the authorities should be
> targetting very specifically the people behind the attacks. But they have to
> be *very* careful not to attack whole communities or ethnic groups. That
> path leads to large scale alienation and escalation of the problem.

It should worry you for the opposite reason. The logical reaction of
terrorists is to brainwash 83 year-old Belgian grandmothers and 8
year-old Chinese kids into carrying bombs. The logical reaction of
Ashcroft's henchmen is to step up the security another notch, and gain
the power to throw anyone into jail at anytime for any reason without
scrutiny.

Or wait ... didn't they already do that?

Ashcroft was one of my inspirations to enter law school. Antonin Scalia
was another. How does that old quote go? "All that is necessary for evil
to prevail is for good men to do nothing" or something like that? The
only way to undo the perversions that are being committed in the name of
security is to fight them in court. It'll take a while, but sooner or
later, Ashcroft will go down in history with McCarthy and similar
pinheads, and genuine law and order will be restored in the USA.

KWW