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www.zmag.org/Hampshire.htm http://www.counterpunch.org/hampshire1.html CounterPunch December 6, 2001 Hampshire College Condemns War in All-Community Vote Amherst, MA - The students, faculty, and staff of Hampshire College have voted to condemn the "War on Terrorism" and propose alternative solutions. The vote, which was won by a margin of 693-121 (with 11 abstaining or ambiguous votes), is believed to the first such decision by a college community in the United States. (A majority of the students, faculty, and staff participated in the vote.) http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?story=109164 url may not work Intelligence services wanted me killed, says journalist Yvonne Ridley makes astonishing claim in book about her days of captivity with the Taliban By Jo Dillon, Political Correspondent 09 December 2001 Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist captured by the Taliban, this week makes the extraordinary claim that Western intelligence agencies tried to get her killed to bolster public support for the air strikes on Afghanistan. In her new book, In The Hands of the Taliban, published tomorrow, Express journalist Ms Ridley, 43, says despite her release from captivity she still has "unfinished business" surrounding her time in Afghanistan. She reports that on her return to Pakistan she found her hotel room had been searched. In London, the locks on her Soho flat had apparently been tampered with. A journalist on the Arab TV station Al Jazeera then showed her a collection of as yet unverified documents. They purported to be copies of a dossier of personal and financial papers and pictures. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/666237.asp Since Sept. 11, federal prosecutors and FBI agents have questioned thousands of Middle Easterners living in the United States Justice Kept In the Dark Closed military tribunals. A dragnet that's swept up 1,200 men. As America fights terror, where will we strike the balance between liberty and security? By Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff NEWSWEEK Dec. 10 issue — Mohammed Irshaid ... As he was sitting in his office on the morning of Nov. 6, he was arrested by federal agents who told him his visa had expired and implied that they had information linking him to a terrorist plot. Irshaid was ashamed to be led away in handcuffs in front of his co-workers. "It was absolutely the most humiliating thing to happen to me in my life," he says. MORE HUMILIATION was to follow. He was thrown into a cell in Passaic, N.J., with nearly three dozen other men. The men, all Muslims, asked to hold on to their food trays so they could observe the Ramadan fast and eat after sundown. The guard wasn't having any of it. "I don't care about f—king Ramadan," the turnkey said. The U.S. government never filed any charges against Irshaid. After three weeks, he was finally released. Irshaid says he was so happy he would have jumped for joy, had he not still been shackled and chained in leg irons. "This doesn't change my love of America," he told NEWSWEEK. "But with all due respect to Mr. Ashcroft, if somebody wants to accuse you of something, they should tell you what it is." Such stories are becoming uncomfortably commonplace. As innocent Muslim men swept up in the post-September 11 dragnet begin to emerge after being held in custody, often in secret, for weeks and months, they are telling embarrassing and sometimes horrifying tales of official indifference and, occasionally, abuse. Civil libertarians and a growing chorus of oped-page Cassandras are warning of a new McCarthyism and accusing Attorney General John Ashcroft of playing a modern-day Torquemada. http://www.aclu.org/court/detainee-foia-complaint.pdf COMPLAINT FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF 1. This is an action under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, the First Amendment and the common law, for injunctive and other appropriate relief, and seeking the expedited processing and immediate release of agency records requested by plaintiffs from defendant Department of Justice ("DOJ") and DOJ's component Immigration and Naturalization Service ("INS"). 2. This Freedom of Information Act case seeks the immediate disclosure of government documents concerning more than 1,000 individuals who have been arrested and detained in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks. This lawsuit does not question the importance of the government's investigation. But the manner in which the government is conducting its investigation also raises issues of the utmost public importance.... The government candidly acknowledges that hundreds of people remain in federal custody but refuses to disclose, among other basic facts, who these detainees are and where they are being held. This secrecy is unprecedented and deprives the public of information it is lawfully entitled to receive. In recent days, the government has publicly disclosed some fragmentary and incomplete information about some of the detainees in response to requests from Members of Congress. Thus far, however, the government has either ignored or rejected plaintiffs' FOIA requests, which were filed more than a month ago. http://www.sonic.net/sentinel/gvcon6.html this is old, but may be worth reading FEMA - The Secret Government By Harry V. Martin with research assistance from David Caul Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995 Some people have referred to it as the "secret government" of the United States. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. This government organization has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies, transportation systems, and can suspend the Constitution. Not only is it the most powerful entity in the United States, but it was not even created under Constitutional law by the Congress. It was a product of a Presidential Executive Order. No, it is not the U.S. military nor the Central Intelligence Agency, they are subject to Congress. The organization is called FEMA, which stands for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Here are just a few Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen: EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations. EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. 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