THEN THEY CAME FOR THE CHILDREN

[Mockingbird]

THEN THEY CAME FOR THE CHILDREN
By Ted Rall

Feds Arrest Girls for Teen Snottiness

They've vanished into the netherworld of a Homeland Security gulag and their story has already disappeared from the headlines, but the shocking case of two 16-year-old girls from New York City arrested a month ago ought to inspire outrage among every American worthy of the name. Since the government's reasons for the girls' imprisonment could apply to virtually any teenager, it should also spark fear.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20050427/cm_u...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl


anybody know any more about this?

[catbert836]

1. Faulty link n/t

[PerpetuallyDazed]

3. Link

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0427-21.htm

[newyawker99]

5. Hi PerpetuallyDazed!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[acmejack]

2. They have been released

One was deported, one was not. However her father was deported.

[peacetalksforall]

4. The other tragedy is that those parents trusted the police. Something

in their lives here in the U.S. made them think that they could get help from the police.

Rotten. Our country ihas become rotten to the core.