[O29] URGENT: Police attack army vet/counter-recruiter at GMU!!

Fri Sep 30 09:09:13 PDT 2005

[See below for the story of racism and violence used against a peaceful 
counter-recruitment protester, who is a George Mason University student 
and a veteran. This attack occurred the same day as the one against 
Holyoke Community College students peacefully protesting recruitment on 
their campus.]

It's clear that campus administrations are trying to see what they can 
get away with as far as brutalizing and repressing student counter-
recruitment protesters (in this case, also a veteran). I think it's 
very important to show them this will not go unopposed.

Today people from all over the country succeeded in flooding the HCC 
administration with calls, and may have helped prevent HCC campus 
security from escalating their attack on the students. Now I think we 
need to call GMU's president and demand that all charges against Tariq 
Khan be dropped and the GMU administration repudiate the brutality they 
used against him.

Please take the time to call GMU. Thank you.

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field
Campus Antiwar Network
http://www.campusantiwar.net/ 
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From: Snehal Shingavi <snehal100 at gmail.com>
Subject: [CampusAntiwarNetwork] Fwd: Violation of Civil Liberties at GMU
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This email is written for GMU students, but I found the info for the President of GMU online:

Alan G. Merten
President

Office of the President
George Mason University
4400 University Dr. MSN 3A1
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 703-993-8700 

Related Links
Biography of Alan Merten 

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From: aalmudal at gmu.edu <aalmudal at gmu.edu>
Date: Sep 29, 2005 8:13 PM
Subject: [SJP_GMU] Violation of Civil Liberties at GMU 
To: 

Dear Students, Faculty, and Friends, 

We are writing to inform you of a serious violation of civil liberties and blatant racism that occurred on campus today (9/29/05). Tariq Khan, a Pakistani-American student at George Mason, was assaulted and detained by the George Mason police.  His crime?  Standing 4 feet from the U.S. Marine recruiting table with an 8x11 piece of paper reading, "RECRUITERS TELL LIES" held by tape to his shirt. Tariq, an Air Force veteran, was exercising his right to express his opinion that military recruiters have no business being on a college campus. He was harassed by members of the ROTC-  one of whom, a self-described Iraqi war veteran, stated that he couldn't wait to go back to Iraq to kill more Iraqis. 

A JC operations representative arrived on the scene to tell Tariq that as a student, he had no right to voice his opinion without a permit, and that he must leave. Tariq defended his right to stand there, peaceably, and the operations staff-member called campus police. While waiting for their arrival, the ROTC guy returned to rip Tariq's sign off of his person and throw it in the trash. 

Witnesses report that the responding police officer physically assaulted Tariq next to the stage in the JC, putting him in a headlock, choking him, and then proceeding to throw him against the stage. The entire time, Tariq announced, and witnesses concur, that he was being non-violent and not resisting. Eventually he was put in cuffs and taken away by two Mason police officers. Tariq was transported to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, with charges of tresspassing, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest being pressed. 

We urge you to get involved and to help us make a huge statement about this on campus. We are in the process of getting a permit to protest this inhumane treatment, and gross infringement of a felllow Mason student's right to peacefully express himself on our campus. While we wait to hear back from Events Management for a permit to protest, we are plannig to meet on the quad by the clocktower at 12 noon on Monday, where we have been assured the right of free speech for one hour. Please join us then, or contact either of us if you would like to be involved in planning any further course of action in this matter. 

Peace and Blessings,

David E. Curtis and Golnesa Moshiri 

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