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Michael Berg: Interview: Terrorist is another word like communist or witch, and this is a witch hunt:
05/12/04 -- In an interview with Boston radio station WBUR on
Tuesday, Berg's father, Michael, said: "I still hold [Rumsfeld]
responsible because if they had let him go after a more reasonable
amount of time or if they had given him access to lawyers we could
have gotten him out of there before the hostilities escalated.
"That's really what cost my son his life was the fact that
the U.S. government saw fit to keep him in custody for 13 days
without any of his due process or civil rights and released him
when they were good and ready."
The interviewer asked, "Do you really blame Donald
Rumsfeld for your son's death? And will you do anything in
addition to that lawsuit you had filed?"
Michael Berg responded, "It goes further than Donald
Rumsfeld. It's the whole Patriot Act, it's the whole feeling of
this country that rights don't matter anymore because there are
terrorists about.
"Well, in my opinion 'terrorist' is just another word like
'communist' or 'witch,' and it's a witch hunt, and this whole
administration is just representing something that is not America,
not the America I grew up in."
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