Thursday, August 17, 2006
How they do that
Bob Herbert devotes his column to exposing the Republican concept of "justice". It's simple, it;s direct and like all things Bushovik, it's ineffective. But we know that doesn't stop Our Dear Embattled Leader and his minions.
Like everyone else, Mr. Higazy fled the hotel after the planes hit the towers. He left behind his passport and other personal items. When he returned to collect his belongings three months later, he was arrested by the F.B.I. A hotel security guard claimed to have found an aviation radio, which could be used to communicate with airborne pilots, in the safe in Mr. Higazy’s room.All told, it is a very good reason to throw the Republicans out of Congress in November.
“That’s impossible,” said Mr. Higazy.
It’s a fact, said the F.B.I.
Mr. Higazy was handcuffed, strip-searched and thrown into prison — as a material witness. No one knew what to charge him with. They just knew they wanted to hold him.
Mr. Higazy was all but overwhelmed with fear. “I didn’t sleep that first night,” he told me. “I was shivering, and it wasn’t from the cold.”
Like an accused witch in Salem, Mr. Higazy was dangerously close to being sacrificed on the altar of hysteria. He kept telling authorities he knew nothing about the radio. But the assumption was that he was lying.
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