Police Arrest 71 Protesters in Guantanamo Protest at Supreme Court

[babylonsister]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/01/71_arrests_at_supreme_court.php

71 arrests at Supreme Court

Police Arrest 71 Protesters in Guantanamo Protest at Supreme Court

Staff
AP News

Jan 11, 2008 14:11 EST


More than 70 people were arrested at the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Demonstrators wearing orange jump suits intended to simulate prison garb were arrested inside and outside the building in the early afternoon. "Shut it down," protesters chanted as others kneeled on the plaza in front of the court.

The court is considering whether prisoners still detained at Guantanamo Bay have a right to challenge their confinement in U.S. courts.

Seventy-one people had been arrested by 2 p.m. EST. They were charged with violating an ordinance that prohibits demonstrations of any kind on court grounds.

Officials briefly closed the court building. It reopened around 2 o'clock.

Source: AP News

[ananda]

1. Your corporate owned court and police state at work.

nt

[canadianbeaver]

2. This is only the beginning of the end....of the USA you once knew.

Police State....alive and well.

[zorahopkins]

3. Gestapo Tactics

Gestapo tactics from a gestapo regime.

Free speech and the right to petition for redress of grievances is ending.

[indepat]

4. Anything displeasing to this WH is criminal in Amurika