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| Over 1000 detained in wake of attacks |
| 2001-10-30 |
Justice Department officials said that the number of people who had been detained in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks had surpassed 1,000, and civil liberties advocates said the government's refusal to disclose the identities of those held and the charges against them raised the possibility of secret detentions. The arrests have been shrouded in confusion and secrecy, with the Justice Department providing a running tally but declining, in most cases, to provide names and details. Justice Department officials said today that they were slowly releasing information about some of the arrests but were prohibited from doing so in some cases and were not required to do so in many others. The further we get from the atrocities of 9-11 the more vocal the "civil liberties" goons will become. That's because This Great Nation has a notoriously short attention span. Mickey Kaus predicted that by November we'd have moved on to another "crisis" - something along the lines of Gary Condit. We aren't all there yet, not even the majority, but part of the herd is starting to move. We need to remind ourselves that those aren't run-of-the-mill muggers and rapists. Some of them are determined potential mass murderers. We'll hear a lot about how it's better for ten guilty to go free if that means one innocent isn't wrongly held - until the ten guilty manage to blow up something important. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |