“After 9/11, nobody has any rights.”
Arbitrary and unreasonable abuse of travelers and visitors by the INS.
Laura Flanders article on general phenomenon:
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=14606
Some seriously disturbing incidents that involve serious inconvenience and abuse of power!
Jimmy Breslin columns:
http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nybres253146358feb25,0,2997545.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists
A quote from one of those articles:
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He tried the wrong party. “You can’t do that,” she said. “I have rights. I have the right to free movement. I have human rights. I have the right to be protected under the Constitution of the United States.”
The daughter overheard one of them say, “After 9/11, nobody has any rights.”
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… isn’t that just peachy? We have officials of our government saying, in effect, that the Constitution is no longer relevant.