ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN????

haven't we learned our lessons well? is this the 1950s all over again? are we forever doomed? will we continue to make the same mistakes we made in the past?

Told to Snitch or Leave U.S.

A 24-year-old Moroccan says federal agents gave him a choice: Inform on fellow Muslims or be deported. He chose to fight back.
By Lee Romney, Times Staff Writer 10:19 PM PDT, August 6, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO — The document that federal agents handed to Yassine Ouassif to justify his deportation contained startling language: "The United States government has reason to believe that you are likely to engage in terrorist activity."Ouassif was in exclusive company. Since Sept. 11, only five people have faced that ominous charge. Ouassif was about to become the sixth.
The slip of paper offered no details on what was behind the accusation.As federal officials took him into custody in December, they told the 24-year-old Moroccan — a permanent resident who had moved to California nine months before the terrorist attacks — that he would be taken to a detention facility in Arizona. He could fight deportation from there, but it would take at least two years, they said. And they assured him he would fail.Ouassif was scared. He cried. But he was not surprised...........