February 24, 2003

Heroine Bernadette Devlin deported from the US

Finding Trouble in U.S. Newsday.com, by Jimmy Breslin

Bernadette Devlin was seized by government agents in Chicago. They said she was a threat to the United States. Breslin writes:

"She remembered yesterday that she said, 'This is crazy.'

"The older agent said, 'If you tell me one more time that this is crazy, I'll put handcuffs on you and throw you into a cell.'

"'All right, I won't say one more time that this is crazy. But it is crazy,' she said.

"Then Bernadette Devlin, who for so many years showed Catholics in Northern Ireland how to breathe and be as unafraid as she was, and by doing so placed the first jobs they ever had into their lives, this small woman with music for a voice who thrilled so many Irish in New York, wound up in an office, where she was fingerprinted and photographed.

"Humiliate them. Then frighten them. 'I'm going to throw you in prison,' the older man said.

"He tried the wrong party. 'You can't do that,' she said. 'I have rights. I have the right to free movement. I have human rights. I have the right to be protected under the Constitution of the United States.'

"The daughter overheard one of them say, 'After 9/11, nobody has any rights.'

"It was common mouthing and behavior from a government that daily shears people of their rights."

So now were so afraid of anyone who stands up for human rights that we deport heroes? What a shameful and embarrassing action on the part of those incompetent, unelected assholes and their stooges now infesting our government.

Posted by Lee at February 24, 2003 06:01 PM | TrackBack
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