04 March 2008

you'll say "what the %#@$&^*#"?: haitians trapped by the "war on terror"...

a colleague of mine recently published an article that caught my attention...i mean i'm pretty much on top of the excesses of this administration vis-a-vis the so-called "war on terror" but this caught me off guard...

what you ask???

well, when i think about threats al qaeda comes to mind but have you ever thought about those pesky haitians (that's tongue in cheek for those who haven't had coffee yet)...

here's how her excellent article begins:

Daniel Joseph doesn't understand why he is still locked up, or why Attorney General John Ashcroft thinks it would threaten national security to release him. Joseph fled Haiti on a wooden boat with his brother and more than 200 others last October. When, after four and a-half days at sea, he made it to Miami, the skinny 17-year-old thought he would be free.

peace out <3

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