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phill4paul
07-13-2014, 07:11 AM
Theye will not allow even peaceful resistance...


Grandmother of Three was Convicted of Violating Strange ‘Order of Protection’ for Colonel of the Drone Base

On July 10, grandmother of three, Mary Anne Grady Flores was sentenced to one year in prison after being found guilty of violating an Order of Protection. A packed courtroom of over 100 supporters was stunned as she was led away, and vowed to continue the resistance.

These Orders of Protection, typically used in domestic violence situations or to protect a victim or witness to a crime, have been issued to people participating in nonviolent resistance actions at Hancock Air Base since late 2012. The base, near Syracuse NY, pilots unmanned Reaper drones over Afghanistan, and trains drone pilots, sensor operators and maintenance technicians. The orders had been issued to “protect” Colonel Earl Evans, Hancock’s mission support commander, who wanted to keep protesters “out of his driveway.”

Mary Anne began her sentencing statement with, “Your honor, a series of judicial perversions brings me here before you tonight.” She concluded that the “final perversion is the reversal of who is the real victim here: the commander of a military base whose drones kill innocent people halfway around the world, or those innocent people themselves who are the real ones in need of protection from the terror of US drone attacks?”

The orders of protection are being challenged on many legal grounds.

Mary Anne had been issued a temporary order in 2012. The following year, she photographed a nonviolent witness at the base, but not participating herself because she did not want to violate the order. The irony is that those who actually participated in the action were acquitted, while Mary Anne was charged with violating the order.

Even though the pre-sentencing report recommended no jail time, Judge Gideon sentenced Mary Anne to the maximum of a year in prison. As he imposed his sentence, the judge referred to his previous Hancock decision. He had stated then and insinuated now, “This has got to stop.”

In addition, Mary Anne was fined $1000 plus a $205 court surcharge and a $50 fee to have her DNA collected.

Her verdict is being appealed.

For information on how to support Mary Anne, contact Ellen Grady at demottgrady6@gmail.com.

http://www.popularresistance.org/nonviolent-drone-resister-sentenced-to-one-year-in-prison/

presence
07-13-2014, 07:25 AM
The orders had been issued to “protect” Colonel Earl Evans, Hancock’s mission support commander, who wanted to keep protesters “out of his driveway.”

The Right to Petition for Grievences is Fundamental

Magna Carta 1215
Right of Petition 1628
Bill of Rights 1689
Declaration of Independence 1776
US Constitution September 17, 1787
European Charter of Fundamental Rights 2009


Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. ___ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Reports) (2011), was a United States Supreme Court (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States) case in which the Court held that speech on a public sidewalk, about a public issue, cannot be liable for a tort of emotional distress, even if the speech is found to be "outrageous".

thoughtomator
07-13-2014, 09:27 AM
only a matter of time before a less formal system of justice develops to fill the void

Anti Federalist
07-13-2014, 10:29 AM
only a matter of time before a less formal system of justice develops to fill the void

Where's Robespierre when you need him?

enhanced_deficit
07-13-2014, 11:36 AM
Freedom is on the march.

William Tell
07-13-2014, 11:38 AM
Where's Robespierre when you need him?

I think you know exactly where he is.

green73
07-14-2014, 06:51 AM
bump