Justice for Chaplain Yee

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Justice for New Americans, a political action group based in California, raises consciousness among Asian Americans to struggle against being permanent foreigners. The internment camps of the 1940's should not be forgotten. Suspicion of Asians continues. http://www.j4na.org/

Wen Ho Lee, a scientist at Los Alamos, downloaded his working files to a floppy disk to avoid being interrupted when the network crashed, as it did frequently. Although the floppy never left the secure area, Wen Ho Lee was charged with espionage and thrown into solitary confinement for nine months. The "evidence" against him included his friendship with Chinese scientists, who in fact had been classmates. The case was eventually dropped.

More recently the government is determined to ruin the lives of Captain James Yee and his family. Unable to substantiate a case of espionage against him, the American government now accuses him of adultery and downloading pornography. Because this is such a high profile case, these absurd charges were approved at the highest levels, perhaps by George Bush himself.

Apparently, Asians are not perceived as human beings in the same sense as white people. General Westmoreland justified his killing rampages in Vietnam by claiming that the Vietnamese don't place the same value on human life.

Justice for New Americans tries to dissuade Asian Americans from thinking of themselves as the "model minority". Being quiet and law-abiding is simply not enough to achieve equality in America.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/nationalsecurity/chineseespionage/


Guantanamo Chaplain James Yee and Family

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1. Clearly a case of gov't protecting Americans from reality..

of torture and what goes on in Guatanemo.

I suspect that the problem with him is that he was NOT quiet..
His case was discussed briefly on DemocracyNow! this morning.

Thanks for posting the picture of him and his family.

[Judi Lynn]

2. From a new AP report on James Yee

Military Violates Own Rules on Classified Materials in Muslim Chaplain's Case
By Pauline Jelinek Associated Press Writer
Published: Dec 3, 2003

(snip) The classified information officials said was inadvertently included in the evidence packet was 15 pages, including an appointment calendar, and all or some of it was handwritten by Yee, sources said on condition of anonymity.

The 15 pages have been retrieved from the two packets, Costello said Wednesday. And the postponed Article 32 hearing is rescheduled for Monday.

Fidell said he examined the document and found "there isn't anything classified in it."

"Given the fact that this guy was in jail for 67 days, the gracious thing to do would be to just drop it and let everyone move on," said Fidell, who is president of the nonprofit National Institute of Military Justice in Washington. (snip/...)

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAA8TZLRND.html

This is PATHETIC! I hope they totally repudiate their earlier charges.