She's proving she's special amid unsettling episode : on the enemys list

[m_welby]

Here's the link, though you need to register...

http://www.projo.com/news/bobkerr/projo_20041128_sunco28.c0069.html

Here's some excerpts...

(Molly) Little is from South Kingstown, a freshman at Colby College, and she doesn't like a lot of things her government is doing. So she demonstrates and asks questions and is drawn to people who share her outrage. Last year, she did an internship with the American Friends Service Committee, the organization founded by those peace-loving Quakers.

On Nov. 18, she was headed to Fort Benning, Ga., to take part in the annual nonviolent demonstration against The School of the Americas, that shadowy operation that is a training school for so many Latin American soldiers eager to learn the American way of keeping insurgencies in check. The school has been renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, but that euphemistic turn has not stopped thousands of people from showing up every year to say the school is a very bad and un-American idea.


It was when she got to the checkpoint on the way to the boarding gate that she found she was a "female special." That's what yet another attendant yelled out after Little presented her boarding pass and driver's license.

"I didn't know whether to burst out laughing or slap her or run away," Little says. "But before I could make a choice, I was whisked out of the line of harmless citizens and into an area enclosed by shoulder-height walls."

At the airport in Atlanta for the flight home, she was once again directed to a separate room and patted down. The people who did it were very nice, she says.But still, she is angry about her treatment. She was never told why she made the list. "The idea that I could be dangerous, that I could hurt other human beings, is preposterous," Little says. But, she concedes, what she went through was merely an aggravation. Many others are being detained for weeks and months and harassed on a daily basis, she says. And she admits that in times like these, the best place to be is among those who question and challenge and get pulled out of line at airports because they refuse to join the frightened and the silent.

"There is a growing community of people who are outraged at what is going on," Little says.


Now, it seems, there is another list. It might never be officially confirmed, but when an 18-year-old from Rhode Island with a mind of her own can be detained at an airport without explanation it's difficult to escape the feeling that somebody's out there taking names.

Yeah, I know its longer than it should be, but I figure not many du'res are going to register with our local paper just to read it.

Yes, an 18 yr old pacifist student is apparently on a 'list' to be searched when she travels because she doesn't agree with the administration. Sounds like a dangerous terrorist to me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Ok, ok when they start going after US

(and they have since Sept 11, but now it is getting reported locally), then you know there is a shift starting to happen

[VivaKerry]

2. Well, good to know homeland security has our security in mind

Think about it. All the time and money the homeland security department has used just to get the names and numbers of people who want to guide our country -- peacefully -- to a better path; people who are merely keeping democracy alive BY participating in it.

Imagine how many terrorists are NOT being watched.


this should outrage ALL americans. I mean, they voted against their own jobs and against food on their tables and against keeping their children home from war BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF TERRORISTS. And this is what those they voted in do with their 'mandate'.

Surely your average white-bread eating, jesus-loving red stater can comprehened this, can't they?????