"These are not people who we want walking our streets," Mr. Morton said at a news conference here, a day after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made much the same point at a Congressional hearing.
Neighbors have joined in, like the one who wrote: "We walk happily/ You honk in snarled traffic/ Who gets there first?
They feared they would be shot if they drove, said Mr. Zeda, who added, "We walked a long way, holding Ali in our arms and holding him up to show him to the American soldiers so that they would let us pass".
"I've known Matt for 15 years and I've loved him as a friend and a colleague, and just like you were saying, Savannah, it's hard to reconcile what we are hearing with the man who we know, who walks in this building every, single day".
Are there other top names who we should expect to walk through the door?
We are most fearful of a mythologized criminal -- a young black man, selling drugs and gang-affiliated who will kill us as we walk in the street -- and our entire criminal justice calculus is based on this largely unrealistic fear.
I thought of my father, who always had single dollar bills ready in his pocket to hand out to anyone who asked as we walked around Detroit.
"And still one more expression of the extreme level of his talent from the man who we expect to begin walking on water any day now, Mr. Al Green".
"When Twenty20 started we had a stand-in captain who said as we walked on to the pitch, 'Right, let's get this farce over and done with'.
We who walk with our eyes on the ground or just straight ahead into the crowd; we who avoid eye contact not because we aren't friendly but because we don't want someone to mistake a simple glance as an invitation for something more; we who just keep walking in silence when random men make their "innocent" comments to us.
