Mon 4 Jul 2005
Response to Post-Standard Editorial
Posted by k under Civil Liberties , Katherine's Writing1 Comment
Published on Sunday, June 26th, 2005
After 5 years of investigation by 7 government agencies; surveillance, intercepting mail, email and faxes, bugging offices and hotel rooms (not to mention the cost of all this) the government came up with nothing linking Dr. Dhafir to terrorism. And yet since the day of Dr. Dhafir’s arrest the government has continuously insinuated a connection. I commend your paper for finally addressing this issue in Wednesday’s editorial. I hope your paper continues to dig still deeper in this particular case.
In the 1990s, while many of us were content to look the other way, Dr. Dhafir responded to the overwhelming humanitarian crisis created by the US imposed sanctions on Iraq. One and a half million people died as a direct result of these sanctions. It is a tragedy that people in this community are content to look the other way while a gross injustice against a man of the utmost compassion and integrity is perpetrated.
August 19th, 2005 at 7:59 pm
I agree that Dr. Dhafir wasn’t a terrorist, but he was certainly a crook; he diverted
hundreds of thousnads of dollars that should gone to charity into his pocket. The jury found
him guilty of 59 out of 60 counts after lengthy deliberations. I’ve never seen any
insinuation in the press or in letters to the editor that members of the jury were dupes.
When will you begin to think that maybe a common thief isn’t worth all of the effort or
suppoort on your part and get on with your life?