Posted on 04/27/2006 1:40:01 PM PDT by yoe
Imagine having grandmotherhood on trial in your courtroom. This is the awkward situation in which Judge Neil Ross finds himself in Manhattan Criminal Court.
**But the defense is trying to portray the trial as a referendum on grandmotherhood itself, and they are milking that all-American concept to the hilt, almost as deftly as the defense in "Miracle on 34th Street," the 1947 feel-good chestnut, milked the American belief in Santa Claus.
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Buncha crazy old gals who ought to know better.
And it's "bandages", not bandaids!:)
Why are these morons even on trial. The best thing would be to ignore them--with no chance to create propaganda, they'd get discouraged and piss off. And as for stopping people from enlisting, anyone who couldn't enlist because a 90-year old granny was blocking the door...they probably weren't military material anyway.
Sorry - whatever *~*
And they are wondering why they don't get the same kind of attention that they did when they started this behaviour in the sixties!
Answer:
The defendants are 18 women who call themselves grannies — somewhat loosely, since although all of them are old enough, a few of them do not actually have grandchildren. They are on trial for, as Judge Ross put it in a casual aside, "protesting," and more specifically, protesting the war in Iraq, by sitting outside the Times Square military recruiting center last October.
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