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"maff" |
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09 Feb 2005 06:46:49 AM |
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OT: Asylum |
Asylum Seekers Often Mistreated, Study Funds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9163-2005Feb8.html
By Darryl Fears, Page A04
People seeking asylum in the United States are held in detention
centers where they are frequently handcuffed and restrained with belly
chains, put in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons, and
forced to share quarters with more dangerous inmates facing criminal
prosecution, according to a study released yesterday by the U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom.
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The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" - Emma Lazarus
"O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but
the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with
oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the Globe. Asia and Africa
hath long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England
hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare
in time an asylum for mankind. - Thomas Paine in 'Common Sense'
"You touch me on a very tender point when you say that my friends on
your side the water cannot be reconciled to the idea of my abandoning
America. They are right. I had rather see my horse Button eating the
grass of Bordentown or Morrisania than see all the pomp and show of
Europe.
"A thousand years hence (for I must indulge a few thoughts), perhaps in
less, America may be what Europe now is. The innocence of her
character, that won the hearts of all nations in her favor, may sound
like a romance and her inimitable virtue as if it had never been. The
ruin of that liberty which thousands bled for or struggled to obtain
may just furnish materials for a village tale or extort a sigh from
rustic sensibility, whilst the fashionable of that day, enveloped in
dissipation, shall deride the principle and deny the fact.
"When we contemplate the fall of empires and the extinction of the
nations of the Ancient World, we see but little to excite our regret
than the mouldering ruins of pompous palaces, magnificent museums,
lofty pyramids and walls and towers of the most costly workmanship; but
when the empire of America shall fall, the subject for contemplative
sorrow will be infinitely greater than crumbling brass and marble can
inspire. It will not then be said, here stood a temple of vast
antiquity; here rose a babel of invisible height; or there a palace of
sumptuous extravagance; but here, Ah, painful thought! the noblest work
of human wisdom, the grandest scene of human glory, the fair cause of
Freedom rose and fell. Read this, and then ask if I forget America." -
Letter to George Washington - Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
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