His wife was putting up 3x5 cards on the window of the room used by the recruiters.

“Don’t fall for it! Military recruiters lie,” said one.

“It’s not honorable to fight for a lying President,” said another.

Then the police came.

“Teachers that teach against the grain often have difficulties with school systems. What has happened to me is certainly not unusual.”

“Now, not only am I being persecuted for my faith, but I’m being persecuted for a personal opinion. This is getting too Orwellian. Is this what it comes down to? Is this where I live? Is this the country I love?”

“This has been literally one of the most significant experiences of my life,” she says. “It’s been absolutely humbling to see how many people were willing to go to bat for me on this issue.”

“I, in my dark skin, am sometimes not even a person to the people who look at me. Instead, in spite of my peacefulness, my committed opposition to all aggression and war, I am a threat by my very existence, a threat just living in the world as a Muslim body.”

A supervisor likened it to wearing a swastika to work, the former employee says.

“Wal-Mart’s actions are paranoid, childish, and desperate,” says a spokesperson for Wal-Mart Watch, who himself was tracked by company sleuths.

The university decided to hire Bolivian scholar Waskar Ari as an assistant professor in the departments of history and ethnic studies, and he was supposed to teach there from August 15, 2005, to May 16, 2008. But he’s never taught a single class because the Department of Homeland Security has sat on the paperwork needed for his visa.

Usually, local law enforcement has to play the heavy, often under orders from the Service Service. This gives the White House deniability. But that deniability has begun to unravel as a result of testimony in a court case involving two Colorado protesters.