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[Adam Shand]

good stuff from dustin.  before you judge him harshly note that some of
the out of context bits are from me ripping this from a conversation
thread and that he'd had a couple when writing the original rant. :-)

From: Dustin Walters <Dustin.Walters at cox.net>

Here's Hatfill links.  Sorry, no Hetfield links.  But also some
corrections about the Lebanese deportee, Al-Najjar, the professor deported
to Lebanon.  It was his brother (also a professor) Sami Al-Arian whom Jeb
Bush wanted fired.  And Sami's son, Abdullah, was "accidentally" escorted
from a conference at the White House.

WP - <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61226-2002Aug25.html>
Hatfill Again Protests Treatment

WP - <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34533-2002Sep3.html>
LSU Fires Scientist In Anthrax Investigation


WP - <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38448-2002Sep4.html>
Blacklisting Steven Hatfill


CNN - Justice
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/04/hatfill.lsu.justice/index.html> Dept.
wanted Hatfill off its LSU programs

FOXNEWS - Florida
<http://www.foxmarketwire.com/story/0,2933,61357,00.html> Professor Denies
Terror Ties

Gov. Jeb Bush, visiting Tampa Thursday, said he thought Al-Arian should be
fired. "The guy has ties to people who want to undermine the United States
of America," Bush said.

CNN - <http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/25/attacks.professor.ap/index.html>
Deported Palestinian professor lands in Lebanon

"Sami Al-Arian, the brother-in-law of Al-Najjar, is fighting to keep his
job at the University of South Florida"

Salon - The <http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/01/19/bubba/>
prime-time smearing of Sami Al-Arian

CNN -
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/08/22/al.najjar.al.arian/index.html?related> -
Arab professor fights for job as in-law deported

Democracy NOW! <http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20010705.html>
- Muslim intern for Rep. David Bonier kicked out of meeting with Bush by
secret service

Abdullah Al-Arian, a Muslim student at Duke University who had just begun
an internship with Representative David Bonier (D-MI), was approached by a
security guard and asked to leave the premises. No reason was given for
his removal.

> Dude,
>
> What the fuck is going on in this country?
>
> James Hatfill, the anthrax suspect (he's in your face he's on your case,
> put you and your mother into place), who's been bitching for weeks about
> John Ashcroft and his Justice Dept fucking with him and generally
> destroying his life (i.e. he was laid off from his job at Fort Monmouth,
> NJ six months ago), was fired on Friday from a new job he'd gotten at
> LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
>
> LSU says that though they make no claims of his guilt or innocence, they
> feel that his being employed by them would not be in LSU's "best
> interests".
>
> Today we find out on the Washington Post (later reported by CNN
> http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/09/04/hatfill.lsu.justice/index.html) that
> there was an e-mail from the DOJ saying that they would refuse to fund
> any programs that James Hatfill was associated with.  All this even
> though they have had two search warrants to ransack this guy's apartment
> and found nothing.  No shred of solid evidence linking him to the
> anthrax mailings.
>
> Or how bout the openly anti-Israeli professor working in Florida who Jeb
> Bush personally advocated firing (and who was subsequently fired from
> his university position and then DEPORTED to LEBANON)?  Supposedly it's
> because he knows people who know people who might have funded
> terrorists, but all they know for sure is that he's openly critical of
> Israeli and American policies.  Now I'm as big a Jew as the rest of you,
> but something is amiss here.
>
> This is not China.  We do not deport dissidents and we don't seriously
> screw with the lives of those we don't at least have the dignity to call
> Suspects.  (To this date James Hatfill is only a "person of interest" to
> the FBI, not a Suspect.)  Right???  Someone please tell me when J. Edgar
> Hoogar was reincarnated and placed in charge of the Justice Department.
>
> Justice for whom?  This shit has got a drunk liberal scared and thinking
> like a few right-wing anti-government conspiracy theorists (who may have
> already been executed or put in jail for life) he's heard of.  Guess I
> should have gotten that PGP installed, eh?
>
> I'm not really dangerous, honestly.  I just think that Osama bin Laden
> hit the wrong fucking building.  God Bless America.