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Headlines : Civil Liberties

Summary:

The war has cost the US $US500 billion ($A548.6 billion) since the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein began in March 2003. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed and millions more displaced, with almost 4000 US soldiers killed.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Andy Sullivan
Republished from Common Dreams (Reuters)

More than 200 people were arrested across the United States as protesters marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

There were 32 arrests in Washington on Wednesday night, after demonstrators tried to block entrances to the Internal Revenue Service, while 30 others were arrested outside a congressional office building, police said.

Protesters had hoped to shut down the IRS, the US tax collection agency, to highlight the cost of the war. Police cleared the building’s entrances within an hour.

In San Francisco, long a centre of anti-Iraq war sentiment, police arrested 143 who protested through the day along Market Street, in the central business district. Sergeant Steve Maninna said charges included trespassing, resisting arrest and obstructing traffic.

Four women were detained for hanging a large banner off the city’s famous Golden Gate Bridge and then released, said bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie.

On Washington’s National Mall, about 100 protesters carried signs that read: “The Endlessness justifies the Meaninglessness” and waved upside-down US flags, a traditional sign of distress.

“Bush and Cheney, leaders failed, Bush and Cheney belong in jail,” they chanted, referring to President George Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney.

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Free the Earth!

ShiftShapers @ 03/21/08 11:02:42

The Earth is free, it is we that are embattled and embittered.

Peace,

GWHunta @ 03/21/08 11:31:46

Land Behind Bars

OPEN QUOTE

The number of people behind bars in the “land of the free” is grown as large as the combined populations of Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Pittsburgh.

That’s the shocking fact in a Pew Center on the States report showing that one in 100 adults in the U.S. are in prison or jail—more than 2.3 million people.

When it comes to locking up its people, the country that claims to be the “world’s greatest democracy” is far ahead of every other nation—ahead of China, ahead of Russia, ahead of all the tyrannies that the U.S. government supports around the world — both in absolute numbers of prisoners and the rate of incarceration.

microdot @ 03/21/08 13:31:31

ShiftShapers @ 03/21/08 14:16:49

(ex) blackwater staff who have illegally shot and killed women and children are free to go about their business, travel etc., all unhindered.

meanwhile people who attempt to voice their opposition to war, are arrested, thrown in jail, given criminal records.

there is something terribly wrong with this picture.

antiguanoctane @ 03/21/08 16:46:55

remarcus @ 03/21/08 19:06:50

A demo without riot police is like a play with missing characters. The set is in place.

mikecimerian @ 03/22/08 11:23:23

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The Earth is free, it is we that are embattled and embittered.

Peace, GWHunta

End Quote

How true..

OpenMind @ 03/22/08 16:03:13

i see many places where the Earth is enslaved, from the missing mountain tops of appalachia to the strip mines, pit mines, oil and gas wells, and diverted and dammed rivers of the west. the Earth is not free, though i understand your point. in our own self-imposed imprisonment and slavery, however, we are also enslaving much of the natural world.

ShiftShapers @ 03/22/08 16:27:27

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