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| More Moonbat News - 4 Convicted In Bloody US Flag Case |
| 2005-09-26 |
| Naturally they're not called liberal peace activists. BINGHAMTON, N.Y. --Four peace activists who spilled human blood on an American flag to protest the war in Iraq were convicted Monday of damaging governmental property, but escaped the most serious charge against them. Too bad... The four members of Catholic Worker, a social justice organization, were acquitted of conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States, said group spokesman Tarik Abdelazim. They also were convicted of entering a military recruiting station for unlawful purposes. Looks like they'll get some justice now! The defendants -- Daniel Burns, 45; Peter DeMott, 58; and sisters Teresa Grady, 39; and Clare Grady, 46 -- splattered their blood on the windows and walls, posters, pictures and an American flag at an Army and Marine Corps recruiting station near Ithaca, about 65 miles south of Syracuse. Real class acts... The Ithaca residents were arrested March 17, 2003. Dubbed "the St. Patrick's Four," the group said that under international law they were not guilty of a crime, and compared their actions to those of Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Susan B. Anthony. Talk about an overinflated sense of self worth! "That blood was already on the flag," Clare Grady testified. "We just made it visible." I'm not Perry Mason, but I don't see that being a statement my lawyer would advise me to make... A previous trial in Tompkins County Court ended when the jury deadlocked. The U.S. District Court jury deliberated about eight hours over two days. Nice knowing y'all... |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #12 Ah, yes. 'Liberation theology'. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-09-26 20:43 |
| #11 revolutionary theology was big in the 60's and led many in RC to actively support communist insurgencies in South and Central America. More Communist than Catholic |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-26 19:13 |
| #10 No offense to Catholic RBers, but what is it about Catholic "peace activists" and blood? Remember the Berrigan brothers? Oh yes. I was in Catholic grade school during the 60's. These nuts were held up as saints and peace workers at the time. Guess the nuns will be sad that their indoctrination obviously failed on me. Or as thay might say "I failed them" I divested myself of that guilt long ago.. |
| Posted by: Warthog 2005-09-26 18:34 |
| #9 No offense to Catholic RBers, but what is it about Catholic "peace activists" and blood? Remember the Berrigan brothers? |
| Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-09-26 18:08 |
| #8 Kinda sounds like...North Korea? And Cambodia, ZimBob's-way, Cuba and every other Workers paradise. |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-09-26 16:32 |
| #7 Interesting link, Steve. Kinda sounds like...North Korea? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-09-26 16:05 |
| #6 Don't forget the phrase "social justice", Steve. That one sets of alarm bells in my mind. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-26 15:49 |
| #5 Any group that uses "Worker" in it's title pretty much tells you where they stand. Far-left, anti-war, anti-globalization, etc. A quick read on their group shows them to be a socialist catholic group started in the thirties. "In The Long Loneliness, Dorothy spelled out the way in which distributism was at the heart of the Catholic Worker program: "As Peter pointed out, ours was a long-range program, looking for ownership by the workers of the means of production, the abolition of the assembly line, decentralized factories, the restoration of crafts and ownership of property.This meant, of course, an accent on the agrarian and rural aspects of oureconomy and a changing emphasis from the city to the land" |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-09-26 15:39 |
| #4 Most of his work seems to be in promoting contrived made for the media semi violent/destructive protest thingies combined with a little infantile jabs at the rest of society. Real great stuff which is surely having a positive impact on society. Phukwits. |
| Posted by: MunkarKat 2005-09-26 15:36 |
| #3 Catholic Worker spokesman Tarik Abdelazim. Huh??? |
| Posted by: ed 2005-09-26 15:06 |
| #2 AGREED!!! HANG EM"UP LIKE A PIG!!!!(sorry, now peta will be after me!!!) |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-09-26 14:54 |
| #1 I'm all for spilling their blood on a US flag. Throat slitting is a good method. |
| Posted by: mmurray821 2005-09-26 14:40 |