An Indian friend of mine sent me this piece. The author is obviously a nut job, but it's frightenning nonetheless, and worth reading. Here we have an ultra-right wing Hindu nationalist threatening Indian ex-pats in America with deportation under the Patriot Act, for the sole crime of having once been a member of the Communist party.
A few weeks ago, this Indian friend of mine confided in me that he refrained from joining at least one left-leaning organization because, in the current political climate, he was worried about deportation. Now he is wondering whether he needs to unsubscribe from the Yahoo groups in which he participates, and remove various political writings posted on his cubical wall.
I wanted to tell him not to do it, but I am not the one in jeopardy. How sad is it that he feels he has to worry about this at all?
Posted by cradle at May 23, 2003 6:21 PMSo, I scanned this entry and saw, "jeopardy" and I was like, oh, finally David is saying something that I can comment on with substance, but alas, I read the rest of the entry and discovered that there were more thought provoking ideas, none of which I could expand on articulately.
Drat.
Posted by: Maureen at May 24, 2003 12:33 AMThey give you little plastic tridents when you order crabs, at like Red Lobster.
Also, that's pretty messed up.
Posted by: Andrew at May 24, 2003 2:27 AMExcept that I was completely wrong, and the
tridents are as you imagined them
to be.
Now that is just smoking hot.
Posted by: Andrew at May 24, 2003 4:28 PMI need a trident.
Posted by: Brooke at May 24, 2003 9:35 PMBrooke, I agree. You need a trident, and you need to run around mostly naked with it.
Posted by: Andrew at June 3, 2003 9:51 AM