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November 2, 2001
Alexander Cockburn
FBI Eyes
Torture
November 1, 2001
Dean Baker
Dying
for Patents
Sami Amarah
US Attempts
to Recruit
Russian Vets of Afghan War
Molly Secours
Where
Are the Voices of Reason? Let the Women
Be Heard
William Blum
Unleashing the
CIA
October 31, 2001
Tom Turnipseed
Terrorize
the Poor,
Subsidize the Rich
Chris Clarke
Thank God
for Berkeley
Steve
Perry
The
Silent Genocide
October 30, 2001
Rep. Ron Paul
War on Terror
Bad as War on Drugs
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Flying
Blind:
The Predator's Problem
Ali Abunimah
Dear Colin
Powell
St. Clair/Cockburn
Atomic
Trains Grounded
Maud Hurd
We Need a Real
Stimulus Package
Dr. Susan
Block
We're
All Afghans Now
Tariq Ali
Busted in Munich
Francis
Beer
Toward
the Terrorist
Anti-World
October 29, 2001
Alexander Cockburn
The Left
and the Just War
John Pilger
Hidden
Agenda
of the War on Terror
David Krieger
Nukes on
the Loose
Jack McCarthy
Neo-Nazis
and 9/11
Marina Kalashnikova
The Brzezinski
Interview
Richard
Manning
Terrorism:
a definitive history
October 27, 2001
Edward
Said
A
Vision to Lift the Spririt
October 26, 2001
CounterPunch
Wire
Genocide
Scholar Gagged
Over Comments on the
Bombing of Afghanistan
Rahul
Mahajan
Poisoning
the Well
Sen. Russ Feingold
Why I Opposed
the
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November
3, 2001
Barred at the Gate
Interview of Nancy Oden
by Declan McCullagh
(Ed. Note: Nancy Oden is a top U.S. Green
Party official and
a member of the party's coordinating committee. An organic
farmer, peace activist, and all-around firebrand, she lives
in Jonesboro, Maine.)
"Just a few weeks ago I had a piece
in the Bangor paper. It's on our website...
I submitted it under my name alone. It's a fairly radical piece;
that's what I do. I'm a political and environmental activist.
"I walked into the Bangor airport.
What I saw was National Guard folks all over carrying machine
guns... The atmosphere was very tense... This was Thursday...
I went over to the American Airlines ticket counter way down
at the end. Nobody else was there, except the clerk. I gave
him my name. He didn't even ask for photo ID. It was almost
like they were expecting me. He put it into the computer. He
stayed on the computer a long time, like 10 minutes.
"He put an S on the boarding pass,
for search. He said, 'You've been picked for having your bag
searched.' ... I said to him, 'This wasn't random, was it?'
He said, 'No you were in there to be searched, no matter what.'
I went over to baggage to put my bags through the X-ray and
then went into the boarding area.
"There was this National Guard guy
there. He yells over at me, so everyone can hear, 'Bring your
bags over here.' You know how they are when they're all puffed
up with themselves. He said, 'Hurry up,' so I slowed down some
more.
"I put my bags on the table. The
two women employees were standing there. [I tried to help them
with a stuck zipper.] He grabbed my left arm, he started yelling
in my face, 'Don't you know what happened? Sep. 11, don't you
know thousands of people died?' I said, 'You can't do that.'
He went to grab my arm, and I said, 'Don't touch me.' I saw
an older airline guy shake his head, 'No,' and he backed off.
"That insulted his little manhood.
He could not force me to listen to his idiot ideas on Sep. 11,
whatever it was he wanted to say. So he was angry. I hadn't
done anything except pull away from him... I think he was trying
to provoke me. They did the wand thing, they were done, and
I heard him say real soft, 'Don't let her on the plane,' like
he was talking to himself.
"Then I go to get on the plane since
we're all done and everything, and the American Airlines ticket
guy says,' You can't get on the plane.' I say, 'Why not?' ...
He says, 'Because this guy says you didn't cooperate with the
search.' ... I said, 'Didn't you see him grab my arm?' He said,
'No, your back was to me.'
"He said, 'Maybe we can get you
on the 4:00 plane, it's the last one today.' I felt, okay, let's
put up with this aggravation now and I'll go to Chicago and
we'll see what we can do... Then this little guard guy, it wasn't
enough to stop me, wasn't done with me. He said, 'Come with
me.' I followed very slowly, I sat down for a while. I said
I'm carrying these bags; I need a rest... It's called passive
resistance.
"He went and found the airport police
to come and talk with me. He went and got six other National
Guard guys and they all approached me. Here are these six untrained,
ignorant, don't-know-how-to-deal-with-the-public, machine-gun-armed
young guys in their camouflage suits with their military gear
hanging off of it.
"I looked up and started laughing,
'Is all this for me, guys? What is this about?' There was this
big burly guy, he was in front. He said, 'You didn't cooperate
with the search.' ... I said what he did was grabbed my arm,
and I backed away... He said he only hit your arm. I said even
if that's all he did, he's not allowed to do that. He can't
hit my arm and demand I listen to him.
"They had the airport policeman
tell me, 'You're not flying out of this airport today.' ...
Of course I had cooperated; why do I care if they search my
bags? ... What I didn't like was being singled out because of
my political views. They couldn't arrest me because there was
no reason for that. They had people who saw there was nothing
to arrest me for. They wanted to get back at me somehow because
I was not a subservient female, because I questioned their manhood.
"I went to the American Airlines
guy and said, 'Is this just today?' He said, 'I don't know.'
One clerk said, 'You could drive to Boston [five hours away]
and see if you can get out of there.'
"I never made it out of Bangor.
I had to turn around and drive 100 miles back home... The fact
that they gave the other airlines my name... They told me they
did that... That's incredible."
Declan McCullagh is the politics editor for Wired. He
also runs Politech, the excellent and informative politics and
technology mailing list. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at
http://www.mccullagh.org/
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