The Buie Knife

Al Gore Decries Treatment of Arabs in U.S.

Al Gore in Saudi Arabia: Arabs in the United States have been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable....The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake. The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States." Movie "The War Within" illustrates the harm done when Americans are overcome with Islamophobia.

Carter: Spying on Americans Violates Law He Signed

Jimmy Carter: ""Under the Bush administration, there's been a disgraceful and illegal decision _ we're not going to the let the judges or the Congress or anyone else know that we're spying on the American people. And no one knows how many innocent Americans have had their privacy violated under this secret act...I hope that eventually the case will go to the Supreme Court. I have no doubt that when it's over, the Supreme Court will rule that Bush has violated the law." Carter signed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 1978, which he says clearly prohibited such surveillance. ""If my voice is important to point of the intent of the law that was passed when I was president, I know all about that because it was one of the most important decisions I had to make."