Xpost: All but 1 SOA Watch protester found guilty

[Billy Burnett]

Duer roody posted this in LBN:

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All but 1 SOA Watch protester found guilty
Read more: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2010/11/22/1354909/all-but-1-protester-found-guilty.html#ixzz161hhm8p8

[roody]

1. Nice slide show at link

[Peace Patriot]

2. Bush running around free opening his lie-bury. Uribe running around free 'lecturing' at Harvard and

and Georgetown. These mass killers are too rich and powerful to be prosecuted and are so rich and powerful that, instead, they are honored. Not only that, the U.S. has ARRANGED the removal of death squad and spying witnesses against Uribe and gang from Colombia, with extraditions--little doubt in my mind as a cover-up of Bush Junta war crimes in Colombia.

But SOA protesters--people protesting brutal U.S. policy in Latin America--go to jail. We really do live in an "Alice in Wonderland" country, where everything is inside out, upside down and backwards.

Kudos and laurel wreaths to these brave protesters! May we one day have a democracy in the U.S. again in which U.S.-funded/supported horrors in Latin America and unjust, heinous wars like the ones on Iraq and Afghanistan cannot happen because the government obeys the People! These protesters speak for the majority!

:bounce: :applause: :grouphug: :applause: :bounce:

:patriot:

[Judi Lynn]

3. I know some of us remember the twin nuns over 80 years old who were sentenced to prison.

Mentioned in a book by another nun who was also arrested:

~snip~
Each November thousands of protestors organized by the SOA Watch speak with their voices, hearts, and feet as they march with white crosses to remember the innocent victims who were brutalized in Latin America by the graduates of the School of the Americas (SOA). On her first march in 1997, Mary and hundreds of other protestors were arrested for what was deemed criminal trespassing. She received a ban and bar notice, prohibiting her from entering the grounds of Fort Benning for five years. A few years later, during Mary’s second march against the SOA, she again crossed the “invisible line” on the property and four hundred members of the group were arrested. A trial was held in the spring of 2001 and 20 protestors were sentenced to six-month jail terms. Nine of the women arrested, including Mary, two Franciscan Sisters in their late 80s, and a 19-year-old student, were sentenced to Pekin Federal Prison Camp in Illinois. A quote from Mary’s book states, “Since the protests began, 183 people have collectively served over eighty-one years in prison for civil disobedience while countless innocent people in Latin American countries continue to die from the repressive efforts led by SOA graduates.”

More:
http://www.celebrationsoflife.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=1&Itemid=76

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Grandmothers for Peace Sentenced to Federal Prison
Cathy Webster, a grandmother living in Chico California, organized "A Thousand Grandmothers for Peace" to protest in November 2006 against the torture-training School of the Americas (SOA) (now called the Western Institute of Security Cooperation or WHINSEC) located at Ft. Benning Georgia.

SOA-WHINSEC has been the subject of international criticism since it was disclosed that torture manuals were used in the training of Latin American military personnel. Amnesty International USA called for the closing of the school, an investigation into the human rights atrocities committed by its graduates, an apology to its victims and reparations.

This week a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia sentenced Ms. Webster to 2 months in federal prison for stepping through a hole in the fence onto the grounds of Ft. Benning to carry her protest to the doors of the SOA-WHINSEC.

Two other Grandmothers for Peace were also sentenced to federal prison for the nonviolent protest ? Julienne Oldfield of Syracuse NY and Val Fillenwarth of Indianapolis IN.

More:
http://www.soaw.org/soaw/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2941&catid=6&Itemid=64

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Their most recent triumph, the dirty coup, in Honduras, and the suppression, intimidation of dissent there, bolstered by disappearances, torture, and murder of Honduran activists, male and female, who opposed the filthy coup against a tremendous populist.

[EFerrari]

4. Disgusting.