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ARCHIVED NEWS
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5/1/2004
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New Poster
As the conclusion to a long hiatus, another poster has been added. You can find it here in the Advocacy section.
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1/24/2004
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New Poster
A new poster has been added. You can find it here in the Advocacy section.
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12/12/2003
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Name, Not Race, Responsible for Employee Suspension
The U.S. Secret Service expressed regret this week for the temporary dismissal of Mohamad Pharoan, a seven-year employee of Baltimore's Hyatt Regency at the Inner Harbor, prior to a fundraising banquet for President Bush.
"Mr. Pharoan was dismissed when the Secret Service learned he was not among the employees that we were aware were scheduled to work that event," said Secret Service spokesman John Gill. "We seek to assure Mr. Pharoan and the Arab American community that the problems he experienced on that day were in no way related to his ethnic or religious background. These problems simply stemmed from confusion over a work schedule."
According to Pharoan, "I was one of the employees allowed to come to work that day, and my name was checked off when I arrived. [ ... ] It's not true at all, what they say about 'not scheduled' or confusion." Pharoan explained that a printed work schedule from the week before, of which he retained a copy, clearly listed his attendance during the banquet.
The actual confusion arose from the hotel management's failure to pre-screen the work schedule for contentious employee names. When Secret Service agents acted on the discrepancy between the schedule and one limited to Homeland naming conventions, Pharoan's dismissal was merely an unintended side effect.
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12/12/2003
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Additional Formats
PDF versions of many posters have been added to the Advocacy section. More will be available soon.
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11/19/2003
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New Poster
A new poster has been added. You can find it here in the Advocacy section.
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11/06/2003
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Canadian Evades Justice
Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen whose trip home from vacation passed through a United States airport, has released a statement describing his year of imprisonment and torture after U.S. officials deported him to Syria for questioning.
Arar was vacationing with his family in Tunis -- as damning a circumstance as any -- when business sent him on a flight home to Canada. While he waited for a connecting flight in New York, government agents pulled him aside.
Apparently he failed to satisfy their confessional demands; according to standard procedure, Arar's processing was out-sourced to Syrian interrogators more experienced in the extraction of truth.
It has become popular among patriots, hindered by a blatantly un-American Bill of Rights, to seek justice outside of the purview of U.S. courts. As experts know, torture and coercion can be valuable tools to establish a criminal's guilt. They are so useful, in fact, that investigators must be careful not to incorporate impossibilities when designing the desired testimony -- which will invariably be repeated verbatim by a cooperative suspect.
When Arar's release was finally secured, he betrayed his former captors' trust in a scathing public denunciation of their hospitality. Arar's experience comes as a shocking lesson to complacent Americans. If he had been held instead at Guantanamo Bay, surely he would still be in custody. His story might have been withheld until its pertinence had passed. For now, we can rely only on our news networks' restraint to shield the Homeland from any injury his story might inflict.
[Editor's Note: There's something fishy about this story. If he isn't an enemy of the Homeland, why does he complain about torture? Furthermore, the man admits outright that he is not an American citizen. How, then, does he expect us to afford him any more courtesy than we reserve for the rest of the terrorist-loving international community?]
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11/04/2003
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New Logo
A new logo has been added to the Advocacy section. You can find it here.
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10/27/2003
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New Signs
A set of three street signs has been added to the Advocacy section. You can find the signs here.
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10/26/2003
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New Painting
A painting has been commissioned and is now available in the Advocacy section. You can find it here.
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10/04/2003
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New Poster
A new poster is available. You can find it here.
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