3:02 pm PDT, 14 September, 2001
Harassment reports come in: MIM vows coverage

Arab shopkeepers in East Dearborn (a heavily Arab 
suburb of Detroit) are receiving death threats by 
telephone, and so is the largest Muslim 
organization in Southern California. At Los 
Angeles International Airport this morning two 
Colombians were taken for questioning because 
Continental Airlines employees reported that they 
were "acting suspicious." The Colombians were 
speaking Spanish.

The Detroit area has long had the largest Arab 
population in the world outside the Middle East, 
and more than half the people in Los Angeles speak 
Spanish as their first language. Yet the response 
of the great "melting pot" country in time of 
crisis is still to lock up all the people who look 
and talk different from the Anglos. "Give us your 
tired, your poor" says the Statue of Liberty ... 
so we can have someone other than our militarist 
selves to blame for our own folly.

Wake up already. The only correct response to the 
World Trade Center/Pentagon bombing is working to 
erase the contradictions between nations -- not 
banding with the u.$. government to exacerbate 
them.

[Most of global news about the World
Trade Center is dictated by the FBI, which
chooses what to release and what details to give
about people they decided to arrest, including
none. If you are being harassed in any way because
of the World Trade Center/Pentagon bombing,
feel free to contact MIM. By
all means attempt to contact CNN, Fox News, CBS News
etc.; however, do not be surprised if these 
extensions of the U.$. government do not report
in the interests of "national security" or
because they are too ignorant to understand. The FBI, CIA
etc. do not operate in the open and frequently deceive
the press, to the extent of planting their own employees
in key places. For news within U.S. borders contact
mim@mim.org. Otherwise, contact mim3@mim.org.]