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By Katherine Hughes, Posted by Stephen Lendman (about the submitter) Page 6 of 6 page(s)
68 Prisoners across the country were awakened at 7:00 a.m. on December 7, held in the "hole"? for two days, and then transported to Terre Haute, Indiana. Rafil Dhafir, letter from prison, written between December 17, 2006 and January 18, 2007: click here
69 Id. Government documentation http://www.pegc.us/archive/DOJ/THCMU_Explan_VisRuls_20061222.pdf
http://www.pegc.us/archive/DOJ/THCMU_InstSupp_20061130.pdf
http://www.pegc.us/archive/DOJ/THCMU_Notice_to_Inmate.pdf
It is likely that the program as it now stands grew out of the program mentioned here in a "Coalition Letter to Bureau of Prisons Re: Suppression of Prisoner Contacts,"? http://multiracial.com/site/content/view/1110/49/ See also D. Eggen, Washington Post, February 25, 2007, "Facility Holding Terrorism Inmates Limits Communication:"? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/24/AR2007022401231.html
70 C. Johnson, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Metropolitan Books (2007), p.17. (Hereafter, Johnson, Nemesis). Johnson says, "It is not clear who first spoke these immortal words""Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, or the anti-slavery abolitionist Wendell Philips""but during the Cold War and its aftermath, Americans were not particularly vigilant when it came to excessive concentration of power in the presidency and its appendages, and we are now paying a very high price for that."?
71 A. Waldman, "Prophetic Justice,"? The Atlantic Monthly, October 2006: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200610/waldman-islam/3 p.13
72 Johnson, Nemesis, p.13
73 At the same time government lawyers challenged the appeal court decision, they put a lien against the Dhafir family home so, even if they wanted to, the Dhafir's could not put up their house as a guarantee for a loan against money for transcripts.
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