Open Letter to the US Prisoner of Conscience, Dr. Sami Al-Arian

By Mohamed Khodr

ccun.org, August 7, 2008

Dr. Sami Al-Arian,

Peace Be With You

Sir,

You are not alone in enduring the deliberate injustice thrust upon you by a politically motivated Prosecutor, Assistant federal prosecutor Gordon Kromberg, for in reality your injustice is against all of us Americans for it usurps all our civil liberties violated and invaded by an Administration at home as it has done in Iraq.

Be patient and have faith that justice will ultimately prevail, sooner rather than later, as this administration, unimpeached, joins the dustbin of history with a bloody legacy staining its disreputable tenure.

Out of ideology, ownership, fear of advertising loss, or fear of America's Scarlet letter: "A: for Anti-Semitism", the media is silent about your case.

"Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our Government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801. ME 3:321

BUSH illegally and brutally invaded a far away nation, Iraq, under the deliberate systematic lies of WMDs, when the lie was exposed, spreading democracy and freedom and ending tyranny was adopted.

The world is revulted by such hypocrisy and double standards given Bush's domestic violations of civil liberties and his support of Israel's tyranny and occupation of the Palestinian people.

Thus when an American Professor, Dr. Sami Al Aryan, spoke against Israel's occupation the many neocons and pro Israel members of his administration, especially in the corrupt Department of Justice and Department of Treasury, launched a domestic "war on freedom" against all who opposed Bush's war on terror and Israel's hegemony upon the Palestinians and our foreign policy.

Such is the egregious stained injustice against Dr. A Arian, a man acquitted by a jury of his peers in Florida, a man promised a plea agreement that he's free to not have to testify against other Muslims and Muslim charities, a man set to be deported; but his crime was that he's a Palestinian Muslim who dared to speak truth against Israel's ethnic cleansing and military occupation and destruction of Palestinian lives and homes. Hence, there's the taboo boundary no man is allowed to cross.

By his voice he gained the wrath of Jewish prosecutors in the Department of Justice who's allegiance to Israel far outweighs their allegiance to American justice. They will not allow any precedent to be set for an American or anyone else to dare speak against the Holy Grail that is Israel.

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people." --Theodore Roosevelt

They had free reign to teach Dr. Al Arian the true costs of criticizing Israel. With total impunity they violated Dr. Al Arian's guaranteed rights as enshrined in the Bill of Rights, violated his plea agreement and without cause or due process of law threw him in the slammer and confiscated the key which by now is probably in Tel Aviv.

"No nation however powerful, any more than an individual, can be unjust with impunity. Sooner or later, public opinion, an instrument merely moral in the beginning, will find occasion physically to inflict its sentences on the unjust... The lesson is useful to the weak as well as the strong." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1804. FE 8:300

America in its hypocritical hyperbole of honoring rights, freedoms, and democracy at home and abroad, values it wishes to export with smart bombs and dumb ideas violates such laudable values at home.

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." --James Madison

Dr. Al Arian has endured hunger strikes, years of solitary confinement, abuse, neglect, and the total blindness and deafness of our unequal justice system that treats members of other ethnic groups with soft gloves even when they endanger America's national security.

"Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another." - Theodore Roosevelt: Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 11, 1890

Bush et al can get away with this because WE, all of us, are silent and our silence is their best weapon against us, our Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the very values we seek to role model for the world.

"Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.

Today it's Dr. Al-Arian, tomorrow it's us. Will we ever have the courage to speak for the rights of all Americans and the peace we seek in the world.

As Gandhi said: "Be the change you wish to see in the world."

Mohamed Khodr

Please write of your support for Dr. Al-Arian and for the upholding of equal justice under the law for all Americans to tampabayjustice@yahoo.com

Thank you.