Doesn't it make you proud to be an American, knowing that our government's "School of the Americas" has provided funding and military training for some of the most vicious military officers and police in Latin America's police states?
And make ya even more proud that our own police -- in the City of Brotherly Love, where our Liberty Bell is proudly tauted to tourists -- will arrest people for merely building large paper-mache' puppets and protest signs *intended* for political demonstrations ... even when the police confiscate and/or destroy them before they're ever used? And then hold them on bails of up to $500,000?
Here's a SILLY idea: "[Government] shall make no law ... abridging... the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances"!
(The Constitution may be perfect, but it's a helluva lot better than what they're using nowadays!)
--jim
Bill Seekins and Diane Paget
Are Pleased to Announce
the Arrest
of Their Daughter, Laurel Rose
on Monday, July 31, 2000
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Protesting The School of the Americas.
Laurel was the first protester to be arrested
as part of a series of protests at the 2000
Republican Convention. She was released on her
own recognizance the evening of her arrest. And
will be going to court on September 16th.
Later arrestees were not so fortunate and over 300
people are still being held in Phildalphia jails
with bails ranging from $10,000 to $500,000. Some
for the crime of building giant puppets and protest
signs, which were destroyed by the police before
they were used.
For more information about the Phildelphia protests
or next week's protests at the Democratic National
Convention in Los Angeles visit the Independent Media
Center's web site at indymedia.org. For more information
about the School of the Americas go to soaw.org.