Ashcroft finds loophole to prosecute Greenpeace

[donhakman]

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17073





Personal Voices: Ashcroft's Attack On Greenpeace

By John Passacantando, AlterNet
October 30, 2003

Yesterday the Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza arrived in Miami. However, rather than pulling into port, as Greenpeace ships do throughout the world, she will remain at anchor.


The Port of Miami has refused us entry because John Ashcroft's Justice Department is prosecuting us for a protest action last year. The prosecution is unprecedented. Never before in U.S. history has an entire organization been prosecuted for a peaceful protest by its supporters.

[cosmicdot]

1. an obscure 19th-century law

it's amazing that Ashcroft has evolved to the 19th century

this action will undoubtedly unleash a whole new wave of
protests against the Bush* Administration

meanwhile ... the anthrax murderer is at large ... Ken Lay is still at large ... the Bush* Administration is at large ...

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Enviornmentalists are on Ashcroft's enemies list

and if this mal-administration is allowed four more years, we can expect environmentalists to be labeled 'terrorists' and treated the way many Muslims in this country were treated after 911.

[donhakman]

3. * One step at a time