Thursday, November 27, 2003

I don't know if you've been following the case of James "Yousef" Yee, the Muslim Army chaplain who had been counseling and serving the religious needs of the forced and without-lawyers detainees of the U.S. Government in Guantanamo, Cuba, but a few months ago he was charged with all kinds of terrorism and assisting-the-enemy type charges and whatnot. Muslim-Americans and Asian-Americans cried foul and worried that he was being targeted similarly as Wen Ho Lee was charged falsely in the 1990's simply because of his skin color and heritage. Well, once again the military has some major explaining to do because he's now being released, without any real clearing of his name regarding the terrorism charges, and instead he is now being maligned in the press via military charges against, get this, downloading pornography and commiting adultery. Since when are porno and adultery actions in even the same vein as terrorism? Since when are they even illegal? Well, apparently they're illegal under military code, but still, this seems to me nothing more than character assassination against someone they falsely accused in the first place and didn't have a leg to stand on with so now they're trying to make him look bad in the press so they don't look bad themselves. His wife isn't charging adultery-- the army is! His wife has this to say: "It is clear to me that the U.S. government only wants to destroy his character and his family." I'm just more and more appalled with the military and their version of 'justice.' And I wonder what Yee may know about the treatments of detainees in Guantanamo that the military was afraid he might make public. I wonder the real reason they're after Yee.

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