Quotes and Source

From the July 2002 issue

Quotes

"I realize that this bill basically says you can tap someone's phone for jaywalking, and normally I would say, 'No way.' But after what happened on September 11th, I say screw 'em."

-- Maryland state Rep. Dana Lee Dembrow (D-Montgomery) on state anti-terrorism legislation, quoted in the March 25 Washington Post

"College campuses are a hotbed of feminist propaganda, and binge drinking is just one manifestation of it."

-- Janice Crouse of Concerned Women for America, quoted in the April 9 Washington Times, reacting to news that heavy boozing is increasing at women's colleges

Source

The Chinese government has contributed to the "war on terror" by amping up the political and religious repression of ethnic Uighurs, Muslims in the country's far-west Xinjiang province. Acting on new anti-terror legislation, authorities have reportedly detained thousands of nonviolent people over the last six months and imposed new restrictions on religious and cultural practices. Learn more at web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index.