There are innocent people in jail. What are you going to do about it?

http://www.spdiran.org/
http://www.payvand.com/news/02/dec/1111.html
http://commondreams.org/headlines02/1219-09.htm

These INS detentions are terrible and it is all of our responsibility to stop another round of detentions and internment.

That being said, I wanted to add that there are thousands and thousands of innocent people in prison in this country. The US has over 6 million people trapped in the criminal justice system.

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People like this racist "patriot" above are probably only surfing Indy because they are paid to do so by the FBI and their goal is to take us off track, to waste our time addressing their zenophobia instead of talking about how we are going to enforce the Constitution in the face of growing fascism in our land.

sadly, thoughts (if you can give them enough credit and call them that) like 'patriot's are rather commonplace. maybe not in their vileness, but in the lack of compassion or understanding of the situation. this is what we're fighting against, these kinds of empty non-thinking reactions. don't just be angered by patriot's words, get motivated by them, and let's do our best to stop what the INS (and others) is (are) doing.

zenophobia?? It's spelled xenophobia

I'm glad that somebody is looking out for the rights of the accused. Too bad nobody seems to care about the thousands killed by terrorists. Also, it's a shame that these hang-wringing activists never said a peep about the conditions for the average North Korean, or that their dictator has proposed war on Japan, South Korea, and the United States.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24 (JTA) -- Ten Iranian Jews holding Israeli citizenship have been released on bail after being detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for several days.

http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/display/inn_news/JTA/yarelease1224.txt

12/24/02
Successful Demonstration by Iranian-Americans in San Diego

The peaceful and respectful assembly of Iranian- Americans in San Diego, on Sunday DEC 22, was a great SUCCESS!

You say WHY a success? People said so. One man said: "All of a sudden, I and my brother's wife could visit him for the 1st time. Not just for one, but for 3 hours. Alsoa lawyer was allowed to visit every cell and make sure the tempratures were set right." The people and media who supported this event are near and dear to our heart. We know we have accomplished a lot more than we think.

ABC 10, CBS 8, KUSI 9, WB 5, NBC 7 and Fox 6 were all there and will air in the afternoon and evening news. LA Times and San Diego Union Tribune will report it on Monday.

Mr. Ali Golchin, an Immigration Lawyer, was the event's spokesperson. We thank everyone who joined and made us more respectful. Those who did not make it today for any reason, we missed you.

The Iranian-American Community in San Diego



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NEWS RELEASE
DEC 20, 2002

A Peaceful Demonstration objecting to the arrest and treatment of law abiding Iranian nationals by the INS who reported to be finger printed and identified.

A network of Iranian-American organizations in San Diego, CA (AIAP, HOI, PCC/ Kanoon, IWSG) supports the peaceful assembly and demonstration of our community:

DATE: Sunday, December 22, 2002
TIME: 2 to 4 PM
PLACE: San Diego Federal Building, 880 Front Street @ Broadway San Diego, CA 92188

This is not the way our children, husbands and fathers to spend their Christmas Holidays in Jail. Our community calls for 'Democracy' and 'The Liberty and Justice for ALL'.

People are protesting the new registration law and unlawful detention of immigrants who voluntarily came forward to comply with the Special Registration law. They are outraged by the treatment that our community is receiving due to new unjustified and discriminatory INS policies. We are resolved that this is inhumane, unjustified, unnecessary, and ultimately does not serve our national security. Terrorists do not walk voluntarily to INS to be fingerprinted.


Senate Resolution 173: "Whereas Iranian-Americans form a vibrant, peaceful, and law-abiding part of America’s people; ..."
We have received horror stories of defenseless Iranian immigrants who tried to comply with president Bush’s call to combat terrorism and went to INS offices. They instead faced wholesale arrests without proper justification. They were chained, handcuffed, and detained for Long periods. Many are still detained, and many are arriving from San Francisco to be detained here in San Diego.

We cannot understand why legal or 245(i) immigrants have been arrested? Also, we cannot understand why the sick, the disabled, and the elderly have been arrested? This is not inline with the spirit of the United States of America and all that it stands for: Democracy, The Liberty and Justice for ALL.

It is obvious that Trent Lott epidemic has been spreading to the Justice Department policy makers as well. A change of heart is in order.

http://www.payvand.com/news/02/dec/1121.html

"Too bad nobody seems to care about the thousands killed by terrorists".

You mean the 3000+ Afgan civilians that were killed? I know, our media was silent on the issue. Thanks for caring.

More and more people will continue to go to jail unless we pass the Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.). Read more at http://www.JAIL4Judge.org. Attend the California Judicial Accountability Conference in Santa Rosa on April 19 at the Santa Rosa Vet's Memorial Building. We expect 1,000 people to show up and tell about their court cases, hear speakers, and learn more about why we need the J.A.I.L. initiative so that all persons suffering under judicial abuse will be able to have consequences imposed upon the judges! This is vital to our country since even Presidents are selected by judges.... what power they have! Join us, become a JAILer and hold corrupt judges accountable; http://www.JAIL4Judges.org. This is a non-partisan initiative.
Read my news article "ALL IN THE FAMILY".

I know there's more to the site and I'll check back again, but I got mesmermized by the non-stop graphics and lost track of what I was there for.

"play with my daughter's new Play Station II"

Yep, that tells us all we really care to know about the level of your intelligence Mikey.

"Is this MY country and are THEY the guests?"

Yessir, this attitude is what will guarantee you'll be someone's bitch in no time, I'm glad to say.

"Messing around with a PS2"
"and then rape your neighbor's dog"

So that's what you do with your time? Violence seems to be all you know. Another true patriot! Thank goodness we have these violent types around to do the dirty work when no one else is stupid enough to!

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