January 29, 2008

Blackwater Protesters Get Secret Trial, Criminal Conviction

Protesters who re-enacted one of Blackwater's worst civilian massacres in Iraq got jail time, while the real killers remain free.Last week in Currituck County, N.C., Superior Court Judge Russell Duke presided over the final step in securing the first criminal conviction stemming from the deadly actions of Blackwater Worldwide, the Bush administration's favorite mercenary company. Lest you think you missed some earth-shifting, breaking news, hold on a moment. The "criminals" in question were not the armed thugs who gunned down 17 Iraqi civilians and wounded more than 20 others in Baghdad's Nisour Square last September. They were seven nonviolent activists who had the audacity to stage a demonstration at the gates of Blackwater's 7,000-acre private military base in North Carolina to protest the actions of mercenaries acting with impunity -- and apparent immunity -- in their names and those of every American.you can digg this for more gory FASCISTIC details orgo tohttp://www.alternet.org/rights/75244/?page=entirePay attention! This is how the Department of Justice is going to deal with protestors in the futureWhile continuing to NOT figure out how to charge and convict mecenaries who break the law, this happens. Blackwater mercenaries should be turned over to the International Criminal Court in my opinion.Some friggin "impeccable" Attorney General in the United States, eh?Some legal heavyweight that CONgress approved and let's the US taxpayer pay his salary, eh??"[T]here are two types of laws: just and unjust … One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that 'an unjust law is no law at all.' … We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' … Any law that degrades human personality is unjust … I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." -- Dr. Martin Luther King

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