Our rights to peacefully assemble ARE GONE. Now the little old ladies who are against the war are being arrested, jailed, or put into forced labor. The American Holocaust has begun!
Grandmothers for Peace Get Federal Prison Instead
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020107L.shtml
"This week a federal judge in Columbus, Georgia, sentenced Ms. Webster to two months in federal prison for stepping through a hole in the fence onto the grounds of Fort Benning to carry her protest to the doors of SOA-WHINSEC...The grandmothers and the rest of the 16 protestors will join more than 250 other activists who have spent a collective 92 years in prison and dozens of years on federal probation for prior nonviolent civil disobedience at the gates to Fort Benning and SOA-WHINSEC."
Texas Grandmother Sweeps Streets of Washington as Punishment for Protest
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0131-07.htm
Diane Baker's voice was barely audible above the rumble of the trash can she pushed down the sidewalk. But her actions tended to speak louder, anyway. Baker was one of 71 people arrested during a protest in Washington for crossing a police line to sit on the steps of a Senate office building. Baker, who has a degenerative muscle condition, had to work 8 hours in freezing weather. As punishment, the 60-year-old was sentenced to sweep the streets of the nation's capital for eight cold, blustery hours Tuesday.
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