Seeing the Forest: Who Is The Enemy Now?

November 14, 2005

Under Bush the government can arrest and imprison (and torture?) "enemies" without a trial or even seeing a lawyer or a judge. You might ask, "So what? These people are terrorists."

How easily could this become a tool of political repression? Could we become a country where if the Republican Party says you're a "terrorist" then you're going away?

For an indication that this could head in that direction, let's look at who is the "enemy" right now. Who is being tracked by the government for suspicious activity? Who could be on that "terrorist" list one of these days? From Profiling: How the FBI Tracks Eco-Terror Suspects, an arrest of an "eco-terrorist" suspect. The "profile" that got him arrested?