Dan Choi Needs Your Support - Jane Hamsher/FDL

[WillyT]

Dan Choi Needs Your Support
By: Jane Hamsher - FDL
Monday August 15, 2011 12:25 pm

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In March, U.S. Magistrate John M. Facciola raised concerns about the “rarely invoked” federal charges that the government is pursuing against Dan Choi for protesting in front of the White House. Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela George said it was because Choi has been arrested for protesting in front of the White House multiple times. But Dan has only been arrested three times for protesting there; numerous people have been arrested many more times than he has.

People are arrested in front of the White House, but the cases are routinely handled in local Superior Court:

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So why is the Department of Justice really singling Dan Choi out, when I was able to find 5 people in one morning who had been arrested many more times for protesting in front of the White House than he had?

Hard to know the truth. According to Marc Ambinder, the President “gets angry every time he’s heckled by ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ protesters. GetEqual has heckled him repeatedly at his fundraising events, and embarrassed him at an Alonzo Morning fundraiser. So it may just be a personal vendetta. But the irony is, Obama is heavily touting the passage of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell with gay donors who have taken the place of many of his bundlers who did not return from the 2008 campaign.

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More: http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/08/15/dan-choi-needs-your-support/

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[William769]

1. He made them look like assholes.

[OutMilitary]

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[cbayer]

4. Welcome to DU and thanks for the link.

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[Bluebear]

6. Welcome to DU!

[yardwork]

7. Welcome to DU and thank you for both your service and your activism!

[WillyT]

8. Welcome To DU, OutMilitary !!!

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Glad ta have ya aboard!!!

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[bullwinkle428]

11. K&R, and welcome to this board! We need more like you!

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[FreeState]

5. History will not look fondly on how he's being treated - despicable n/t

[dsc]

9. for those who are calling this a smear

why is he apparently being singled out?

[Divine Discontent]

10. Dan's story is important! kick!

http://www.cafepress.com/barackobama12

[KoKo]

12. Thanks, Willy T! K&R!