From Noonday In The Shade by Paul Krugman of the NYTimes
In April 2003, John Ashcroft’s Justice Department disrupted what appears to have been a horrifying terrorist plot. In the small town of Noonday, Tex., F.B.I. agents discovered a weapons cache containing fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs and a chemical weapon ” a cyanide bomb ” big enough to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building.
Strangely, though, the attorney general didn’t call a press conference to announce the discovery of the weapons cache, or the arrest of William Krar, its owner. He didn’t even issue a press release. This was, to say the least, out of character. Jose Padilla, the accused “dirty bomber,” didn’t have any bomb-making material or even a plausible way to acquire such material, yet Mr. Ashcroft put him on front pages around the world. Mr. Krar was caught with an actual chemical bomb, yet Mr. Ashcroft acted as if nothing had happened.
Incidentally, if Mr. Ashcroft’s intention was to keep the case low-profile, the media have been highly cooperative. To this day, the Noonday conspiracy has received little national coverage.
If this is what the Injustice Department is doing at its level, how does one expect those lower on the chain (soldiers, prison officials, law enforcement officers) to treat average Americans or foreigners any better? I don’t see anything in this other than sanctioned racism and xenophobia all the way from the top. All of you immigrants who voted these body snatchers into office are going to end up paying. Again, the high court decision that you have to give your name to a police officer if questioned, what’s that all about? Guilty until you are proven innocent? Innocence out the window if you are Jameel Sheikh, but a pocket flag and an attaboy if you are Joe Smith?
Need I remind you that, while our kids in uniform fight for the “freedom and rights” of Iraqi and Afghani women, the most dangerous places in America are between a woman’s breasts and the inside of her womb?
