Burns, 45, was fined $250 for contempt and ordered to share payment of $958 in restitution for cleaning up the damage at the recruiting station near Ithaca.
Posted on 01/23/2006 9:47:48 AM PST by Albion Wilde
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A peace activist was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for splattering his own blood at a military recruiting station to protest the then-looming war in Iraq.[SNIP}
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Ping!
My hat goes off to this judge, we are a nation of laws and he is one judge who realizes it.
Daniel Burns was the first of four activists to be sentenced this week for splattering their blood onto the windows, walls, pictures and an American flag at the Army and Marine Corps recruiting station
Yuck! How much you wanna bet that blood had gay cancer in it. If not then it's a sure bet he'll have it when he gets out. So long, AIDSy.
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(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Six months for using a possible Aids infected deadly device?
Hallelujah! One voice for sanity on the judiciary....
Do you suppose they tested the blood? This judge should have forgone the sympathetic words to the maggot and given him the harshest penalty possible.
Six months at Guantanamo?
It's almost impossible to get AIDS on contact, unless the blood enters an open cut or sore. Even the idea of defacing a govt office with something so symbolic as blood would probably violate the ACLU's sensitivity about free speech.
The main charges are damage to property and interfering with officers in the conduct of their duty, which the judge properly recognized -- and punished.
"The court doesn't question your motivation," he said. "I know you didn't go there with evil purpose in mind. You went in good conscience. But what you did clearly violated the law." Burns, 45, was fined $250 for contempt and ordered to share payment of $958 in restitution for cleaning up the damage at the recruiting station near Ithaca.
And what do you consider an appropriate sentence for this offense?
I think that the word "almost" would be the key operative here. There was a time when they were trying to calm the debate by telling us it was perfectly safe to use the same drinking glass, etc., as people with AIDS, but there were more and more cases that, using that "conventional wisdom", shouldn't have occured. It's almost like saying that firing a gun into the air in a populous area is unlikely to result in death or injury because of falling bullets. It's still illegal because the danger is there.
1. Not enough.
2. But that's okay, I'm waiting on further charges
3. Anyone ever ask them how they obtained their blood?
THANKS FOR THE PING!!
I am not at all sure the Judge considered the blood at all. His first statement seems to even sympathize with the jerks.
This blood stuff is effecting everything we do.
I had to grab my rubber gloves before helping a person at an accident scene last week. If it had been a child instead of old man I would have felt terrible at the delay.
Everyone ...put rubber gloves on the very top of your first aid kit in the car!
...And there's no mention of blood in any of the literature (recruiting center brochures). There's no mention of being taught to kill or being killed or having to live the rest of your life having been exposed to all the depleted uranium and such in Iraq. It is clearly -- it's an advertisement and so the blood really just brought truth to the recruiting center......The St. Patrick's Four carried out their action in March 2003, when they entered a recruiting center in suburban Ithaca, poured their own blood on the walls, in the foyer and on a US flag and then refused to leave.
P.S. They should've been charged with assault with a deadly weapon...and found guilty on said charge. They could have EASILY hit someone in the eye with their blood.
...But DeMott holds the rights to the most interesting of all their protesting feats. "[In 1980], I commandeered a van that belonged to a shipyard and I used it as a sort of automotive battering ram," he said, "and smashed it repeatedly into the rudder of a trident submarine." A call for nuclear disarmament, DeMott's action was part of the Plowshares Movement (the title from Isaiah 2:4: "They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks"). For that action, DeMott was sentenced to a year in prison...
It seems these are notorious protesters. Too bad the judge didn't give them community service cleaning bed pans in a military hospital -- except that they would have been a security risk.
Burns, 45, was fined $250 for contempt and ordered to share payment of $958 in restitution for cleaning up the damage at the recruiting station near Ithaca.
Thanks for the reminder that this happened in Ithaca. What is amazing is that it was prosecuted at all, since it was in Ithaca.
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