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Did Ashcroft go too far in Greenpeace indictment?
Bergen Record ^
| Tuesday, November 4, 2003
| JONATHAN TURLEY
Posted on 11/04/2003 1:43:04 PM PST by dead
Edited on 11/06/2003 3:25:41 PM PST by Admin Moderator.
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IT HAS lain dormant in the darkest recesses of American law for 125 years, but last month Attorney General John Ashcroft introduced critics of the administration to his latest weapon in law enforcement.
In a Miami federal court, the attorney general charged the environmental group Greenpeace under an obscure 1872 law originally intended to end the practice of "sailor-mongering," or the luring of sailors with liquor and prostitutes from their ships. Ashcroft plucked the law from obscurity to punish Greenpeace for boarding a vessel near port in Miami.
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doj; ecoterror; environment; globalwarminghoax; greenpeace; greenspirit; johnashcroft; jonathanturley; patrickmoore; sailormongering
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Greenpeace is annoying, but Ashcroft is dangerous.
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:43:07 PM PST
by
dead
To: dead
Did Ashcroft go too far in Greenpeace indictment?No.
Next question.
To: dead
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
To: dead
Ashcroft dangerous? Perhaps he's looking at the wrong law book. Supposedly there are laws against being boarded. Piracy, I think it's called....
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:47:02 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Liberalism - Better Living through Histrionics ©)
To: dead
STOP THE PRESS GANGS!
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:47:46 PM PST
by
JAWs
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Screw Greenpeace. I'll take Ashcroft.
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:48:31 PM PST
by
TheBigB
(Check out my new pic at the FReeper Photo Album home page!)
To: dead
I like the resourcefulness. I enjoy my freedom, but if they had boarded my means of providing for my family, they'd have been shot.
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:48:31 PM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Government money = government control)
To: Neanderthal
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
Are you maintaining that Greenpeace actually mongered some sailors?
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:48:51 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
"Ashcroft's jihad against free speech, however, is not limited to environmentalists. Consider the case of three Dominican nuns. Last year, Sister Ardeth Platte, 66, Sister Jackie Hudson, 68, and Sister Carol Gilbert, 55, participated in a peaceful demonstration for nuclear disarmament.""As part of the protest, the three nuns cut through a chain-link fence around a Minuteman III missile silo. There is only a light fence because the missile is protected by a 110-ton concrete cap designed to withstand a nuclear explosion. The nuns proceeded to paint crosses on the cap and symbolically hit it with hammers. They then knelt, prayed, sang religious songs, and waited for arrest. The most the government could allege in terms of damage was $3,000."
Soooo....Jonathon Turkey.....if a pro-life person as much as TOUCHED an abortion clinic what would happen?
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:49:36 PM PST
by
goodnesswins
(Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free.)
To: TheBigB; Behind Liberal Lines
Screw Greenpeace. I'll take Ashcroft.
Dont bitch when Hillarys president and Andrew Cuomos the AG selectively enforcing sailor mongering laws on abortion protestors or the NRA.
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:51:05 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
If the law is bad, it should be abolished.
Many don't like enforcing immigration laws either, but it doesn't mean others should ignore it.
To: TheBigB
Screw Greenpeace. I'll take Ashcroft.DITTO!!
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:51:48 PM PST
by
saminfl
To: dead
"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. Are you maintaining that Greenpeace actually mongered some sailors?"
I'm referring to the nuns literally. Ashcroft says Greenpeace broke the mongering law, and should "do the time" as well.
To: dead
Liberals don't mind when anti-abortion protesters are persecuted and arrested. But they sure don't like it when their groups are threatened.
To: dead
They should be charged under maritime law for illegal boarding and given the stiffest punishment possible; preferably hanging.
Shoot, GreenPeace certainly isn't complaining about Chirac ordering the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior these days (which killed one GreenPeace sailor), so they should hardly mind any other such punishments.
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:52:52 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: dead
Liberals don't mind when anti-abortion protesters are persecuted and arrested. But they sure don't like it when their groups are threatened.
To: dead
Greenpeace could lose its tax-exempt status - a potential death knell
Yeeeee-haaawwwwwww!
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:53:19 PM PST
by
theDentist
(Liberals can sugarcoat sh** all they want. I'm not biting.)
To: dead
>> Greenpeace is annoying, but Ashcroft is dangerous.
Greenpeace is trash. Ashcroft is the trash man.
To: CHUCKfromCAL
Liberals don't mind when anti-abortion protesters are persecuted and arrested. But they sure don't like it when their groups are threatened.
Well Im not liberal. Nor am I as inconsistent as many on this thread.
I dont support the selective political enforcement of laws against Greenpeace or Operation Rescue.
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posted on
11/04/2003 1:54:45 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
I like the way the article gracefully ellides over the fact that the ship was not engaged in the illegal activity that the Greenpeace pirates proffered as their excuse for interfering with its operations.
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