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Related: About this forumJust saying this, put an American in jail for 10 years.
So even though we can say it today, we are still under the thumb of the warriors.
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Just saying this, put an American in jail for 10 years. (Original Post)
Gregorian
Apr 2016
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)1. Click bait: Eugene Debs died 90 years ago.
OP title and single sentence 'description' is very misleading.
navarth
(5,927 posts)2. Thank you very much for posting. A great speech.
I must read up on Eugene Debs.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)3. Kicked and recommended!
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)4. Wow. Thanks for posting.
The media & an incomplete education kept me blinded to how screwed up this country really is, and how much we are under the thumb of the elite.
Your post made me curious, so I did a quick google news search, and this turned up...Not 10 years, but still. A peaceful protester against the use of drones is in jail as I type.
Anti-Drone Activist Sentenced To 6 Months In Jail For Peaceful Protest
Some activists are worried about the precedent it could set.
01/19/2016 02:06 pm ET | Updated Jan 19, 2016
......The charges against Grady Flores, a Catholic involved with the Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones & End the Wars, stem from a nonviolent protest over the militarys use of drones at the Hancock base in February 2013, when she and eight others were arrested and charged with violating the protective order.
Grady Flores insists she did not intend to flout the court, testifying at her trial that she accidentally stepped on base property while taking photos of the protest. Nevertheless, a jury convicted her of second-degree criminal contempt in 2014, and she was later sentenced to a year in jail. In July 2014, she was released on bail pending an appeal, in which she argued the protection order was unconstitutional and vague, and that there was insufficient evidence to convict.
........While we are outraged by whats happening to Mary Anne, as well as other people who have been to jail for protests, the worst outrage is the drone attacks outside this country, she said.
Grady Flores expressed a similar sentiment Tuesday.
This is a moral call, she told The Huffington Post shortly before reporting to jail. We have to stand up for life and not be about the culture of death. Drones are just one part of the endless wars and U.S. profiteering off of war making.
She urged people interested in her case to read the Drone Papers, a cache of documents published by The Intercept detailing U.S. kill operations overseas.
The American people, if they knew the details, they would say Heck no, we dont want this, she said.
Read in full~
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mary-anne-grady-flores-drones_us_569e78a1e4b00f3e9863073d
Some activists are worried about the precedent it could set.
01/19/2016 02:06 pm ET | Updated Jan 19, 2016
......The charges against Grady Flores, a Catholic involved with the Upstate NY Coalition to Ground the Drones & End the Wars, stem from a nonviolent protest over the militarys use of drones at the Hancock base in February 2013, when she and eight others were arrested and charged with violating the protective order.
Grady Flores insists she did not intend to flout the court, testifying at her trial that she accidentally stepped on base property while taking photos of the protest. Nevertheless, a jury convicted her of second-degree criminal contempt in 2014, and she was later sentenced to a year in jail. In July 2014, she was released on bail pending an appeal, in which she argued the protection order was unconstitutional and vague, and that there was insufficient evidence to convict.
........While we are outraged by whats happening to Mary Anne, as well as other people who have been to jail for protests, the worst outrage is the drone attacks outside this country, she said.
Grady Flores expressed a similar sentiment Tuesday.
This is a moral call, she told The Huffington Post shortly before reporting to jail. We have to stand up for life and not be about the culture of death. Drones are just one part of the endless wars and U.S. profiteering off of war making.
She urged people interested in her case to read the Drone Papers, a cache of documents published by The Intercept detailing U.S. kill operations overseas.
The American people, if they knew the details, they would say Heck no, we dont want this, she said.
Read in full~
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mary-anne-grady-flores-drones_us_569e78a1e4b00f3e9863073d