On Monday, October 15, 2001, at 05:38 PM, Anonymous wrote:
"In a high-security wing of Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, an unknown number of men with Middle Eastern names are being held in solitary confinement on the ninth floor, locked in 8- by 10-foot cells with little more than cots, thin blankets and, if they request it, copies of the Koran. Every two hours, guards roust them to conduct a head count. They have no contact with each other or their families and limited access to their lawyers.
5000 people went through a 1000-degree meat grinder on 9/11 without an opportunity for any due process, and don't fucking forget it.
People who think like "Anonymous" above should ask themselves a simple question: "What would you think if _you_ were seized in a pre-dawn raid, held without charges, never allowed to confront evidence, not allowed to contact the attorney of your choice, cut off from communications with your family and friends, and held in jail for several weeks or more?" I know I'd be out for blood, McVeigh-style. My rough figure of merit is that for every _day_ that I am held unjustly, a member of the forces which held me must die. If this means killing an office building of them for unjustly holding me for 30 days, so be it. (Of course, I'd attempt to be more clever about it. But the morality of it is as I stated.) As for "Anonymous," he's probably just another one of the "Anonymity should be banned" crowd, like the cretins at "Reason," the "Wall Street Journal," and so on. Funny how the most rabid statists often hide behind the very tools they want banned. --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"