And If My Thought-Dreams Could Be Seen

Ted Rall reports:

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. ...

Without a warrant, NYPD detectives and federal agents burst into the girl's home -- no wonder they don't have time to look for Osama! -- where they "searched her belongings and confiscated her computer and the essays that she had written as part of a home schooling program," say her family. "One essay concerned suicide...[that] asserted that suicide is against Islamic law." The family is Bangladeshi. They are Muslim. That, coupled with the mere mention of suicide bombing in her essay, was enough to put the fuzz on high alert. ...

[Based solely on that essay] the FBI says both girls are "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to become suicide bombers." But the feds admit that they have no evidence to back their suspicions. Nothing. ...

FBI agents threatened to deport her parents and place her American-born siblings, a four-month-old baby and an 11-year-old, in foster care unless she confessed. ...

Has there been anything on the news -- anywhere -- about this story?

Oh, if only one of these girls had been engaged and then decided she wasn't quite ready for marriage and ran off. Then, we wouldn't be able to get her off our TV screens.

Homes searched without a warrant, kids thrown in prison for thoughts real and imagined, people's lives destroyed by an out-of-control federal government -- will Americans speak up for what's right? Please call and write your congressman and senator to demand the release of the two girls from Queens.

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