Congress overwhelmingly passes Veto-proof Anti-Occupy Bill. Chicago? Forget it.

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29. I wish I had your optimism.

My fear is that in this day and age, you get arrested per terms of HR 347, and if you don't give your name, maybe you will be considered to be a terrorist.

Then what?

There were people in the SF Bay area, who for the "crime" of being Muslim, were picked up after Nine Eleven and held for nine months or more. No one knew where they were, no one in their families knew what had happened.

No charges were posted against them.

And we aren't talking about some weirdos who hung around the Nine Eleven hijackers. We are talking about your suburban-raised, Muslim kids who happened to be college age. And one minute he is a citizen, and the next he is carted off.

By the time one young man got out of detention, he had lost the car that he just about had paid off. He had lost his significant other, as she thought he'd been killed. He had also lost the semester in college he'd fully paid for, and that now had him with grades registered as "incomplete."

What separates any of us from the status of that young man?