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Group Members Discover Civil Liberties

By K.C. Johnson

Wahneema Lubiano. Her authorship of the guilt-presuming Group of 88 statement (something ?happened? to Crystal Mangum; ?thank you? to protesters carrying ?castrate? signs; the signatories would hold firm ?regardless of what the police say or the court decides?) didn?t exactly identify her as a friend of civil liberties. Based on their attitudes and actions since 2006, Lubiano and her Group colleagues would be about the least likely people imaginable to stand up for due process or the rights of the accused. Yet this self-described ?post-structuralist teacher-critic leftist??who views part of her job as ?engaging in politics (including strategizing)??has found a new crusade to occupy her time. In 2006, a former Brooklyn College(!) student named Syed Fahad Hashmi was arrested in Britain on charges of providing material assistance to Al Qaeda...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).