Borders closed, political liberties threatened: What about the first Amendment?

Amerika closed down its illegitimate borders on September 11th following the 
retalitory attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Every single civilian 
airport in North America was shut down as part of the panic. People could not 
leave or enter Amerika. When the borders started allowing folks back in, only 
Amerikans were allowed. And at the border with Kanada, only Kanadians were 
allowed to enter.

In some cities, like Detroit, a state of emergency was called which thwarts 
protest of Amerika's crackdown. Many radio commentators and those interviewed 
spoke about the need to give more money to the CIA. Their argument -- get this -
- was that the CIA was not able to prevent Tuesday's tragedy because it had not 
been funded properly. Many recalled fondly the moneys being used in the 1960s 
and 1970s to fight internal threats to u.$, imperialism. Remember COINTELPRO and 
the number of lives of great people that were ended by that program's wanton 
violence against radicals?

Amerika's reaction to the crisis is to clamp down on civil liberties. While 
selling newspapers yesterday, one person told a MIM distributor "If you want 
freedom, you have to take it to the Arabs that did this. When you get rid of 
them, we can have freedom." MIM has no doubt that the majority of Amerikans have 
similar Amerikan chauvinist reactions. One teacher told MIM that the students 
(mostly Black) talked about finding Arabs and 'getting' them. So in Amerikans' 
minds, we can have civil liberties if Amerikans are the ones perpetrating the 
massacres, but not when Amerika needs to hunt down the internal and external 
enemies of imperialism.

Sound familiar? Concentration camps for Japanese in Amerika. Blaming Oklahoma 
city on an Arab. "Remember the Maine". The Gulf of Tonkin. Headlines across the 
kkkountry read "Act of War" on September 12, 2001. Colin Powell has said this 
must be treated like a war.

Get real. Amerika was already at war, murdering over a million in the last 
decade. This retalitory attack will be used to bolster support for that war and 
its intensification. Watch the House and Senate resolutions proposed to increase 
FBI and CIA funding. And watch the decrease in the bourgeois media's coverage of 
documents released details CIA involvement in deaths around the world. MIM 
mourns the deaths from Tuesday and those that will come because of the united 
snakes's madman witchhunts to follow.