[SOC] more tidbits

[Lloyd Lachow]

Boy, it just gets better and better.  Here are a
couple of other nuggets pulled off of website news
sources.  The second one is particularly interesting,
since Bernadette Devlin is somewhat well-known, and a
formermember of the British Parliament:


*--- Andrew J. O'Conner, a former public defender from
Santa Fe, New Mexico, was arrested in a public library
and interrogated by Secret Service agents for five
hours on February 13th.  His crime? He said "Bush is
out of control" on an internet chat room, and was
arrested for threatening the President. 


*--- Bernadette Devlin McAliskey of Ireland was
recently passing through Chicago from Dublin, where
she passed security, when she heard her name called
over a loudspeaker. When she went up to the ticket
counter, three men and one woman surrounded her and
grabbed her passport. McAliskey was informed that she
had been reported to be a "potential or real threat to
the United States."McAliskey has spent the better part
of her life struggling for the Irish Nationalist
cause. She did not lob Molotov cocktails at police.
Instead, she became a member of British Parliament at
age 21, the youngest person ever elected to that post.
In 1981, she and her husband were shot by a loyalist
death squad in their home. She has traveled to America
on a regular basis for the last thirty years, and has
been given the keys to the cities of San Francisco and
New York. Upon her detention in Chicago last month,
McAliskey was fingerprinted and photographed. One of
the men holding her told her that he was going to
throw her in prison. When she snapped back that she
had rights, she was told not to make the boss angry,
because he shoots people. "After 9/11," said one
officer, "nobody has any rights." "You've evaded us
before," said the officer before McAliskey was
deported back to Ireland, "but you're not going to do
it now." She never found out for sure how she was a
threat to the United States, and is currently filing a
formal complaint with the U.S. consulate in Dublin.



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