At an alumni function last year, I spoke with a friend I had not seen in over a decade. He had spent many of the intervening years in Afghanistan with the US Army, in an intelligence unit. I asked him his opinion of “Matthew Alexander” – the anonym of the military interrogator who had just… Continue reading Back into the Light
Month: January 2009
The Fascists at “Homeland Security”
The case of Raquel Williams illustrates the way an insane bureaucracy can change rational, thinking men into lock-stepping foot-soldiers of fascism. Raquel is a Brazilian woman who married an American man, Derek Williams, while she was studying in Florida to be a nurse. They had a son together, and she applied for permanent residence in… Continue reading The Fascists at “Homeland Security”