A Dangerous Precedent

I came across this link to Kazim Ali's piece on how his effort to recycle poetry manuscripts led to police interrogation, near arrest, and suspicion of terrorism on Cara's January One blog.

It's significant and frightening, a clear example of the insanity that our current attitudes toward difference and the Middle East and power have led us to. I think that the most frightening part of the piece is his university president's response, which is to blame Ali and to refuse to acknowledge the real apparatus in play.