Re: Asterisk warning; records may have been beaten, Wrangler needed for adjudi
- From: alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan)
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 20:28 +0100 (BST)
In article <slrndk0bkp.555.pjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, pjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(PJR) wrote:
> Google "Peter Hood". He's been smacking kooks around since time
> immemorial. Your kook radar hace produced a false positive.
Hell, I used to have one of Brad's pages bookmarked about *Peter* the *Plonker*
>
> Alan Palmer, OTOH, is a notable kook from SPP. Hi Alan! Still whining,
> I see!
Hey, I'm alright Jack! Things are O.K. around here, but I am whining because
some of my American friends are now locked up. Here, let me give you another
*clue*
Justice in a Too-narrow Courtroom
By Bill Quigley
The federal judge held court in a narrow crowded room in Columbus, Georgia. This
is the home of the School of the Americas (SOA), located on the grounds of Ft.
Benning.
That is where the US Army trains Latin American militaries with US tax dollars.
Amnesty International says the school, recently renamed the Western Hemisphere
for Security Cooperation (WHISC), should be closed and independently
investigated because of repeated human rights atrocities committed by its
graduates.
Entire communities, like El Mozote, massacred. Nuns, like Srs. Ita Ford and
Maura Clarke, raped and shot. Religious leaders, like Oscar Romero, assassinated
while saying Mass. Many hundreds, many thousands of victims of the graduates of
SOA-WHISC.
Unfortunately, the people who committed the crimes against humanity were not on
trial in the courtroom in Georgia.
No, the 85 people on trial were being prosecuted for civil disobedience. In
November 2002, each walked a few yards onto the grass of Ft. Benning in a
non-violent protest against the human rights violations of SOA-WHISC graduates.
They hoped that their actions would help close the school.
For that action, each was arrested for criminal trespass and put in the Muscogee
County Jail for a couple of days. Friends scrambled to raise $500 each to bail
them out.
The 85 on trial included five Catholic Workers, two farmers, more than two dozen
college and graduate students, many teachers, several grandparents, nine nuns, a
lawyer, five veterans, and an airline pilot. They ranged from ages 19 to 78 and
hailed from twenty-six states.
Now they faced a federal judge.
They asked that a jury of citizens be allowed into the courtroom to hear the
evidence about the crimes of the SOA-WHISC, so regular people could decide if it
was better to protest or to be silent. Denied.
They asked to argue expansive international law, the law of necessity, and the
Nuremberg principles, all of which allow people to violate small laws like
trespass in order to prevent much bigger crimes like massacres. Denied.
They asked for another judge to hear the case, one who had not met with the
prosecutors even before the protest to tightly plan out the trials, a judge who
might be open to hear about the SOA-WHISC and their defenses. Denied.
The legal system and US policy joined arms in order to try to muzzle and
restrict the voices of the protestors.
But the protestors would not be silenced.
Despite the restrictions imposed, the defendants turned the tables, opened up
the conversation, and put the SOA-WHISC and American foreign policy on trial.
One by one, each rose and spoke fearlessly and passionately about their own
personal journey to civil disobedience in Georgia.
Many had seen the suffering first hand in Iraq, Colombia, Bosnia, El Salvador,
Nicaragua, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and in the schools and prisons and homeless shelters
and families of their own cities. Some acted because their faith would not let
them do anything else. Others rose up because in justice they could not turn
their backs on humanity. Each had walked in solidarity with victims of injustice
and promised not to be silent any
more.
Each spoke blazing truth focused by the power of love.
US foreign policy and the legal system had failed to silence them. The cries for
justice would not be muted.
Each defendant, in their individual journey, had been transformed and had made a
commitment to live justice in a very serious way. In sharing their journey in
that narrow courtroom, each defendant transformed each other and all of us in
that crowded room.
By the end of the trials, they were more on fire than when they arrived. They
arrived as resisters. They left with new partners in a new community of
resistance.
But the legal system and US foreign policy had to exact a punishment. The
punishment that comes to too many who stand and speak and act in love and truth
in solidarity with victims. The resisters could not be allowed to act for
justice without consequences.
Fifty one people left that narrow courtroom sentenced to federal prison terms
from thirty days to six months for a five minute walk on government grass.
Thirty four others were sentenced to over three decades of federal probation for
the same non-violent action. Together they were fined over $40,000.
In a narrow Georgia courtroom, they were found guilty by laws too narrow to
leave room for justice.
But, like the spirit of those who acted boldly in solidarity with each other and
the victims of SOA-WHISC, justice cannot be contained by narrow walls and narrow
laws. These 85 helped speed the day when the SOA-WHISC will close. Justice will
prevail.
http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/2005/10/justice-in-too-narrow-courtroom.html
Alan, son of Nemesis.
?Our own soldiers are returning contaminated with depleted uranium and
now they?re fathering children that are horribly deformed because they?ve
been contaminated with radiated material,?
Peter DeMott
"I don?t believe that Mr. Bush is a Christian. Christians believe in the
prophets, peace be upon them. Bush believes in profits and how to get a piece of
them."
Mr George Galloway.
http://www.mrgallowaygoestowashington.com/
http://www.respectcoalition.org/
The Church of Nemesis
http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/protector.html
Nemesis The Goddess of Divine Retribution
http://thanasis.com/modern/nemesis.htm
Firebird - Fighing For Women and Childrens Rights.
http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/
Nemesis News
http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/
http://www.planetarybillofrights.org/
The Hymn of Nemesis:
Nemesis, winged balancer of life,
dark-faced Goddess, daughter of Justice,
You who restrain with adamantine bridles
the frivolous insolences of mortals,
and spurning the destructive violence of mankind
drive out black envy!
Beneath Your unceasing, traceless orbit
is spun the grey fortune of man
and unnoticed You walk in his tracks,
you bend the neck that is proud.
Beneath Your arm You ever measure out life
and ever do You lower Your eye to Your bosom
as You control the scales in Your hand.
Be gracious, blessed dealer of justice,
Nemesis, winged balancer of life.
Nemesis the deathless Goddess we sing,
Victory with slender wings, all-powerful
infallible, and the assistant to Justice,
You who in displeasure at the pride of men
carry it down into Tartarus.
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