While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan and the Philippines defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Lauren E. Glaze, of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, releases “Probation and Parole in the United States, 2001,” reporting that there are over 6.6 million U.s. subject/enemy/citizens on probation (subject to incarceration), incarcerated (half of them for non-violent drug offenses), or on parole (released early from incarceration—but subject to return at any time)—three percent of the nation’s adult population.  The “freest” nation on earth, has a higher percentage of its population incarcerated than the “Axis of Evil,” i.e. Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran, or the Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea.

       Postscript: This report was released on a Sunday, a non-work day.  Was this done on purpose, as to not draw attention to this embarrassment?

       [restored 11/19/2023] Thanks to Jim Lorenz for this entry.

       Steven J. Hatfill bitterly denounces the reckless techniques of John Ashcroft, attorney general, in publicly calling Hatfill “a person of interest” in the anthrax mailings, but admitting there is not enough evidence to arrest him as a suspect:

       I want to look by fellow Americans [United states subject/enemy/citizens] in the eye and declare that I am not the anthrax killer.  My life is being destroyed by arrogant government bureaucrats.  I have never met Mr. Ashcroft.  I don’t know him.  I’ve never spoken with him.  And I do not understand his personalized focus on me

Hatfill had cooperated completely with the FBI on several occasions; his reward was to have a voluntary search, two weeks previous, turned into a public event, as news of the scrutiny was leaked to the national media.  Also, details of a novel Hatfill had been working on, was made public, after the FBI seized his computer hard drive, which contained the only copy in existence

       [restored 11/19/2023]