Posted on 09/22/2005 10:21:51 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
BINGHAMTON, NY--The New York Times reports that one of the Ithaca, NY-area protesters who spilled human blood on a soldier and the flag in 2003 has a long history of attacks on government property.
According to the Times, Peter DeMott, one of the self-styled “St. Patrick’s Day Four,” has previous arrests for “ramming a car into a nuclear submarine in 1980 and hammering and pouring blood on a different submarine in 1982 when he was part of an activist group, Plowshares, which protested the nuclear arms buildup.”
DeMott and his fellow protesters, the Times reported, were portrayed as “religious zealots who routinely destroy government property yet have mostly evaded consequences” by prosecutors.
"You have decided unilaterally you can damage property," [the prosecutor] said, asking if [DeMott] had ever reimbursed the government. "When are you going to stop?"
One of DeMott’s fellow protesters, Teresa Grady, admitted on the stand, that as a child, she had been taught by her father, a Vietnam era war protester, about "jury nullification…the principle of refusing to convict a person for whom one feels sympathy with a cause,” the Times reported.
DeMott and Grady, along with fellow protesters Clare Grady and Daniel Burns, all of Ithaca, are currently on trial in Federal Court in Binghamton on charges of conspiring to impede the duties of U.S. officials and damaging or injuring federal property and officials. The conspiracy charge, the most serious, carries up to six years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
They are accused of going to a Army recruiting center near Ithaca on March 17, 2003, and throwing their own blood on the walls, the floor, the United States flag and Staff Sgt. Rachon Montgomery, who was working as an army recruiter that day.
The protesters, while admitting to their actions, claim they have done nothing wrong. The four, who are representing themselves, claim that their actions were legally justified because they did it to stop the United States from invading Iraq.
“(Montgomery) doesn't understand exactly what's going on.” Burns said in the September 22 Ithaca Journal.
Let's hope they get the book thrown at them.
The Goofball:
DeMott
Hang em high! Make him use his own blood.
This might be a good concept to keep in mind if you're involved in a trial for assaulting one of these sacks of used swine chow.
Old hippies are pathetic.
He's actually an old Marine and an Army linguist.
Sickos!
DeMott and his fellow protesters, the Times reported, were portrayed as “religious zealots who routinely destroy government property yet have mostly evaded consequences” by prosecutors.
Religious? These people? How stupid a comment is that?
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..and on trial for, and freely admits to thowing blood at a solider in uniform and on the flag. Recall his ass to active duty and let the UCMJ take care of him.
Like I said. PATHETIC!
They claim that their religious beliefs compel them to do silly things like this as part of their defense.
I like how cowards chant that dissent is the highest form of patriotism. It may be if ONCE in your life you fought a battle for your country...but when you never do you are a yellow bellied traitor....wow..that felt good to bring back that old saying.
That is one pinched, hateful face. The result of what hate, bitterness and evil does to our exteriors.
pattyjo
O.K., he's a pathetic SOB religious zealot
As the twig is bent??
Ithica americas communist anti american stronghold
It is also an excellent concept to keep in mind if you want to get off jury duty very quickly.
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