police work

[Jon Ford]

It smacks of racial profiling to me. How would us white folks respond
to such a request? For instance, some of us use illegal drugs. How would you 
feel about such an "interview"? Give me a break.

Jon


>From: Michael Eisenstadt <michaele@ando.pair.com>
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: police work
>Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:37:34 -0600
>
>I must say that the FBI letter to all the legal Arab
>residents seems to be good police work. Hundreds are
>leaving, some out of paranoia, others because they
>would flunk the interview.
>
>The first batch of questions will be to compile
>a dossier of the location of all of the
>interviewee's family including phone numbers.
>
>Then they will be asked about their friends'
>identity.
>
>Those who were active fundamentalists BEFORE 9-11
>will refuse to answer lest the cops roll up their
>networks.
>
>Those that merely knew fundamentalists BEFORE 9-11
>may provide useful information about the activists.
>
>Just as Irish Americans contributed to the IRA in
>Irish bars, Arab Americans also contributed to
>their analogous IRAs throughout all the Arab hoods
>in the country.
>


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