INS registration punishes foreigners, Îun-American'

First, I thank the Arizona Daily Wildcat for running the important article on the front page yesterday about the former UA instructor facing deportation after he registered with the INS in December ("Former UA instructor may face deportation"). The INS's new special registration system is not enhancing our nation's security. Instead, it punishes foreign nationals based on their national origin, religion, and gender. It is un-American. It violates our Constitution, which guarantees due process and protection from being searched without suspicion. It erodes confidence in the fairness of the INS in our Muslim and Arab communities. It is unfair and abusive in its application. [Read article]

The U.S. government is at war. Not the nation, not the military ÷ just the government. There are no bombs in this war, nor soldiers, nor nerve agents. There are no casualties. But it is a war nonetheless ÷ of press releases and interviews, of hype and hope. It is the war to go to war, and the government is winning. In fact, it's not a battle at all; it's a rout.

How can we account for the utter failure of the anti-war movement while 80 percent of Americans now say they don't support invading Iraq without hard evidence that its government possesses weapons of mass destruction? [Read article]