If this woman is a terrorist, then so is Laura Bush-Music Scholar Barred From US

[kpete]

If this woman is a terrorist, then so is Laura Bush.
Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why

Homeland Security goes Gestapo..detains music scholar
by Demfem
Mon Sep 17, 2007 at 10:53:36

The people at Homeland Security have really gone over the line, not only in the criteria of who is a threat, but in their treatment of persons against whom nothing has been proven. I read about this this morning and was totally flabbergasted. I know they are a bunch of fascists, but this is just too much. If this woman is a terrorist, then so is Laura Bush.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/17/135336/923


Published: September 17, 2007
(Page 2 of 2)


Held incommunicado in a room in the airport, she was groped during a body search, she said, and was warned that if she moved, she would be considered to be attacking her armed female searcher. After questioning her for hours, the officers told her that she had been ruled inadmissible, she said, and threatened to transfer her to a detention center in Santa Clara, Calif., unless she left on a flight to London that night.

Outside, Mr. Flight made frantic calls for help. He said the British Consulate tried to get through to the immigration officials in charge, to no avail. And Ms. Ghuman said her demands to speak to the British consul were rebuffed.

“They told me I was nobody, I was nowhere and I had no rights,” she said. “For the first time, I understood what the deprivation of liberty means.”

As Ms. Ghuman tells it, the officers said they did not know why she was being excluded. They suggested that perhaps a jilted lover or envious colleague might have written a poison pen letter about her to immigration authorities, she said, or that Mills College might have terminated her employment without telling her. The notions are unfounded, she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/nyregion/17musicologist.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5090&en=f8db6de4c1ad9d36&ex=1347681600&adxnnl=0&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1190027018-xQFjJLcKihr8kNXyNyWV5Q

[superkia]

1. Our rights should be the first issue in these elections but its dismissed?

[Bluebear]

2. "Laura Bush-Music Scholar" - I thought Laura was funding a chair or something

Silly me, that would be generous.

[madrchsod]

3. no wonder no one wants to come here.

last year america lost at least 15 billion in tourist dollars. with the us dollar in the dumpster you`d expect tens of thousands of europeans to flock to this country but they won`t because of stories like this...when will sanity return to america?

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

4. I'm an American citizen

living outside the USA and I'm afraid to travel home after all the "rabble rousing" I've done calling the White House, my reps, letters to the editor etc.