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xchrom

(108,903 posts)
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 07:06 AM Jul 2013

12 Real Patriots Brave Enough to Fight for Truth and Justice

http://www.alternet.org/activism/12-real-patriots-brave-enough-fight-truth-and-justice

***SNIP

Edward Snowden is a 30 year old risking a lifetime in prison to expose massive extensive wrongful secret government surveillance of hundreds of millions in the US and even more globally.

Rosanell Eaton, 92, a 70 year member of the NAACP, was arrested on June 24 in North Carolina in one of the weekly actions resisting government cutbacks and mistreatment of the unemployed. Nearly 600 others have also been arrested in the last two months in the NAACP led protests.

Tim DeChristopher, 29, was just released from two years in federal prison for disrupting an improper government auction of oil and gas rights around national parks in Utah by making false bids for leases.

Bradley Manning is a 25 year old Army soldier who has been in jail since May 2010 because he exposed evidence of illegal US airstrikes, murder, and other embarrassing confidential political information about the US and other governments
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12 Real Patriots Brave Enough to Fight for Truth and Justice (Original Post) xchrom Jul 2013 OP
AutoxchromDURec KG Jul 2013 #1
... xchrom Jul 2013 #2
+1 YeahSureRight Jul 2013 #3
Nearly 700 arrests to date at the NC General Assembly, protesting Republican wackos struggle4progress Jul 2013 #4
And I add Cindy Sheehan and Don Siegelman fasttense Jul 2013 #5
How can you possibly include a brave woman like Cindy Sheehan with a theif and liar like Snowden? Vietnameravet Jul 2013 #10
Brave Patriots SamKnause Jul 2013 #6
I am not a fan of Snowden, who took a job with the sole intent to do what he did. secondwind Jul 2013 #7
I agree with you Vietnameravet Jul 2013 #9
All honor to these activists sacrificing their Freedom. Skeeter Barnes Jul 2013 #8
K&R Arctic Dave Jul 2013 #11
K&R! felix_numinous Jul 2013 #12
 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
5. And I add Cindy Sheehan and Don Siegelman
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 08:46 AM
Jul 2013

"Cindy Sheehan made national news when she became an anti-war activist after her son Casey was killed in Iraq, on April 4, 2004. Sheehan, a Gold Star mom, was in Oklahoma City on Mother’s Day speaking to a group of supporters at the First Unitarian Church while on her cross country “Tour de Peace” bike ride. In 2005, Sheehan established Camp Casey outside President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. Thousands made their way there to protest the Iraq war."

http://city-sentinel.com/2013/05/cindy-sheehan-still-protesting-americas-wars-with-cross-country-bike-tour-two-oklahoma-gold-star-fathers-speak-out/

Don Siegelman is currently serving years in prison for daring to stand up to KKKarl Rove and questioning the sudden appearance of votes for his RepubliCON opponent. He is a political prisoner.

http://www.donsiegelman.org/don-story_home.html




 

Vietnameravet

(1,085 posts)
10. How can you possibly include a brave woman like Cindy Sheehan with a theif and liar like Snowden?
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 09:58 AM
Jul 2013

She protested and expressed her opinions in a legal way..she did not lie and steal to promote her ideals.

Skeeter Barnes

(994 posts)
8. All honor to these activists sacrificing their Freedom.
Thu Jul 4, 2013, 09:37 AM
Jul 2013

Piss on the politicians and the military on this patriotic day.

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