Reply #26: They wn't arrest Carter, they will arrest organizers of protests [View All]

[Bragi]

This appalling ruling will make it easy to claim that anyone who organizes protests against Israel's right-wing regime is actually supporting terrorism. That's who they will now target -- organizers of political protests -- not Jimmy Carter, despite his status as one of the few leaders who still support political rights.

I find it depressing to realize that had this law been in place in the 1980's, me and thousands of others could easily have been arrested as terrorist backers for supporting the rebels (now called "terrorists") then fighting to overthrow the Reagan-backed fascist government of El Salvador.

Will people now finally rise up to reassert their rights against this rogue Supreme Court?

Frankly, at a time when people won't even go tot he streets to protest an entire ocean ecosystem being killed off, I doubt it. People seem content to see their political rights disappear.

<Big sigh>

- B