Woman Fined $50 for Calling Condi a War Criminal Prior to Her Conviction for War Crimes

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Woman Fined $50 for Calling Condi a War Criminal Prior to Her Conviction for War Crimes
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2008-05-02 20:01.



Desiree Fairooz was convicted today for calling out Condi
By DC Indymedia

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Fairooz, a Code Pink activist, is the latest peace activist to be convicted and sentenced for speaking out against the war and occupation of Iraq. In April, local DC activist David Barrows was convicted for speaking out against General Petraeus also in September 2007. Barrows was sentenced to 18 months supervised probation and a several hundred dollars fine. Barrows also did not receive a jail sentence in spite of the prosecutor’s request.

Statistics are being compiled by Baltimore peace activist Max Obuszewski for acts of nonviolent civil resistance that lead to the trials of these arrested activists. In 2007 over 1000 peace and social justice activists were put on trial for their acts of nonviolent resistance to the US war and occupation of Iraq, Afghanistan, and torture according to Obuszewski.

The requests by government prosecutors for significant jail time is increasing in an attempt clamp down on organized resistance and dissent against the war and torture by the US. A government prosecutor was recently overheard telling police that if the government could just go after the “leaders” they could stop the movement according to a DC activist who witnessed this interaction in the hallway of Superior Court.

Prosecutor Shapiro, who represents the government in many of the trials with activists, is a known Iraq War supporter. He has had opinion pieces published expressing his support for the war in addition to politicians like Joe Lieberman. He is a former tabloid reporter who covered the Jon Benet Ramsey case.

:evilgrin:

That always works so well for the army of occupation.

Disclaimer: I have no connection with them.

But....they are doing what I can no longer physically do.

So I send a few bucks when I can afford it.
Gosh, if each of us sent just one dollar..
ok, better make it 2,..inflation and all that ya know.

I figure they are marching for me, just as we marched for them back in the day.
Carry it on...

and I saved the pic too.

I'd go broke


Shouldn't the truth be free?

Maybe he should be on the road investigating the Hanna Montana photoshoot.

If someone interrupted Condiliar and said something "positive" would they also be fined or is this a clear case of censorship because this admin. is just too wimpy to stand the heat?

These people better get used to hearing what sane people think of their actions because they'll be hearing it until the day they die.

....and Code Pink....now this is what true patriotism is all about!

So true.

Folks it very well may have happened during a hearing, not before one or after one. The article is silent as to when it happened but we've all see the folks dragged out of hearings and I presume this is one of those cases. Congressional hearings have to be able to proceed without interruption. If Condi was called a War Criminal (which she certainly is) out on the street, in the hallway, before a committee meeting commenced, after a committee meeting was adjourned, or in the caller's sleep then I say its fine and certainly within a person's 1st amendment right to do so. However if Congress is interrupted in doing its sworn duty then that is not right. What was done here, in effect, was the People's Representatives were impeded in gathering the facts they need to perform for us, and that is not acceptable.

So I've got to say that order had to be preserved DURING a hearing and that those who disrupt a hearing that is in process should be dealt with by these minor fines, and even minor jail time if that seems warranted by the Judge.