This is an important case of academic freedom and the free movement of people in an age of Homeland Security.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

For more info, go to: http://www.history.unl.edu/news/ari/ari.html

Please SPREAD THE WORD about this important case as broadly as possible.

Also, please write to Chertoff in Homeland Security and Rice in the State Department urging them to act on Dr. Ari's case. Also, please contact your local congressional reps and consider writing a letter to your local newspaper about it.

If you are interested, the UNL Nebraskans for Peace chapter has created a "Where's Waskar?" t-shirt (based on popular "Where's Waldo" books of the '90s) for $12 to help support the campaign. If interested, email me (see below).

Thanks,
Dr. Patrick Jones
pjones2@unl.edu

It is normal for the government to be slow. I know immigrants who get their applications lost or there is simply a delay of years. Better resubmit the application and be extra nice to the INS clerks, or they will toss it. If you come in with attitude, this is how you get treated. With better planning(allow 9-12 months) things may get done. Look at the post office. Don't see evil conspiracies behind every government employee's extended lunch break. If you ever worked for the government you would understand the government worker mentality. They are human like anybody else with power to make your life stressfull. Sort of like a univeristy professor. What goes around comes around.