Ashcroft vs. Greenpeace (UPI Article on Common Dreams? WTF?)

[DUreader]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1127-06.htm



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President Bush was
onboard with the logging
ban, only a few months
before he told an
audience at National
Oceanic and
Atmospheric
Administration about his
commitment to enforce
the law. But here was a
vessel heading for Miami,
some 3 to 5 miles off the
coast, carrying illegal
wood.

Two experienced
"climbers," Hillary Hosta
and Scott Anderson, went
out to board the ship.
Greenpeace and other
groups train their
"climbers" up in the
Canadian forests. And
certainly Hosta was experienced, one glance at Google will show that she's dangled
off New York office buildings and towering forests to protest environmental abuse.

The boarding of the APL Jade was, even the government has admitted, a peaceful
act. The two climbers grabbed onto ladders, swung themselves aboard and posted
the sign. As these acts, it ended with little fanfare. The group was detained, went to
court on April 15 and the individuals were sentenced to time served.

Only July 18, quite surprisingly, Marcos Daniel Jimenez, the U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of Florida, announced that a federal grand jury had indicted
Greenpeace Inc. "with boarding a vessel before its arrival in port and the conspiracy
to do so." Jimenez, incidentally, was chosen for his post, many Miami lawyers think,
because he was on the team that handled Bush's election battle in Miami and his
brother, Frank, is a key aide to Jeb Bush, Florida's governor and Bush's brother.


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[LifeDuringWartime]

1. would that be double jeopardy?

n/t

[private_ryan]

2. nope

two different "crimes"