Chris Hedges: There is NO Justice in "Kafka's America"

In one of Kafka's short stories"Before the Law", a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the court's of justice. He sits outside the law court for days, months and years. He makes many attempts to be admitted. He sacrifices everything he owns to sway or bribe the stern doorkeeper. He ages, grows feeble and finally childish. He is told as he nears death that the entrance was constructed solely for him, and that it will now be closed: Justice has become as unattainable for Muslim activists in the United States, as it was for Kafka's frustrated petitioner. The draconian legal mechanisms that condemn Muslim Americans who speak out publicly about the outrages we commit in the Middle East, have left many, including Syed Fahad Hashmi wasting away in "supermax" prisons. These citizens posed no security threat, but they dared to speak the truth about the sordid conduct of our nation, that the state found unpalatable. In the bipartisan "war on terror", waged by Republicans and Democrats, this ugly truth in America is branded "sedicious". The best the US government could offer as evidence of Fahad's crimes was that an "acquaintance" who stayed in his apartment with him while he was a graduate student in London had raincoats, ponchos, and waterproof socks in luggage at the apartment, and that the "acquaintance" eventually delivered these to al-Qaida, but I doubt the government is overly concerned with a suitcase full of waterproof socks taken to Pakistan.