FORMER HOSTAGES SLAM 'SHIELDS FOR SADDAM'

New York Post ^ | 2/23/03 | LEONARD GREENE and SAM SMITH

[kattracks]

February 23, 2003 -- Americans held hostage in Iraq in the months before the Gulf War have an urgent message for a group of peace activists in Baghdad offering themselves as human shields: Get out while you can.

As the countdown to war shifts from weeks to days, Americans who were kidnapped and used to protect Iraqi targets from attack are appealing to the peaceniks to leave the volatile country before their protest backfires.

[withteeth]

"He even tried to pat the head of an English boy, who rebuffed him before the world."

That's hilarious. I hope that is fixed in history. (Not so sure it was that obvious, though).

[withteeth]

These people will probably be murdered by Iraqi patriots when the war starts. Time to stop the play-games. Their families should be telling them to get home NOW !

[nutmeg]

bump to read later

[Cindy]

"ARE THEY FOR US OR AGAINST US?" (Updated Daily.)

[putupjob]

"Charles Joseph Kolb of San Francisco was held captive from August to December 1990, and has horrible memories of being sexually assaulted and being forced to use a hose for a shower and a hole in the ground for a toilet."

This should bring the USEFUL IDIOTS closer to Saddam.

In all likelihood the USEFUL IDIOTS will be put in places where they will be killed in an attack, or they will be killed directly in a staged situation to generate propaganda material for Peter Arnett to show how heartless the "American invasion" is and how these people gave their lives opposing aggression.

The doltish USEFUL IDIOTS are about ready to learn from real life situations why they are called USEFUL IDIOTS.

[kcvl]

Kathy Kelly of Chicago, IL, helped initiate Voices in the Wilderness, a campaign to end the UN/US sanctions against Iraq. For bringing "medicine and toys" to Iraq, she and other campaign members have been notified of a proposed $163,000 penalty for the organization, which has already been threatened with 12 years in prison. Kelly has been to Iraq fourteen times since January 1996.

In April, 2002, she traveled to the West Bank. She was among the first internationals to enter the Jenin refugee camp, where she stayed for three days. She also visited the cities of Ramallah and Beit Sahour while both cities were under military closure.

During the first two weeks of the Gulf War, she was part of a peace encampment on the Iraq-Saudi border.

In 1988 she was sentenced to one year in prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites. Kelly served nine months of the sentence in Lexington KY maximum security prison.

Kelly has taught in Chicago area community colleges and high schools since 1974. She is active with the Catholic Worker movement and, as a pacifist and war tax refuser, has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 18 years.

Kelly has also helped organize and participated in nonviolent direct action teams in Haiti, and Bosnia.

[kcvl]

Treasury Department vows to prosecute Iraq activist Sean Salai
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published 6/20/2002

An activist who is refusing to pay a $10,000 fine for violating U.S. sanctions on Iraq will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, a Treasury Department spokesman said yesterday.

"The Treasury Department enforces the law of the land," said Rob Nichols, deputy assistant press secretary. "If someone doesn't pay a fine, we begin a collection process that can last up to six months."

Mr. Nichols refused to comment specifically on the case of Bert Sacks, a retired civil engineer from Seattle who said Monday that he won't pay the May 17 fine for making illegal currency transactions in Iraq in 1997.

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We all received pre-penalty notices," said Kathy Kelly, spokeswoman for the Chicago-based Voices in the Wilderness campaign against the Iraq sanctions who traveled with Mr. Sacks.

Mr. Sacks has made eight trips to Iraq since 1996, and said that he will continue to do so regardless of whether he is eventually fined and jailed by the IRS.

[GretchenEE]

We have many means to oppose war rather than to get on the side of the enemy.

There's a thinking man. And one who sounds very grateful to be alive, post-Saddam's Shield Time.

[GretchenEE]

So does the U.S. government. A State Department official said the group faces serious risks.

I should hope the foremost risk is coming back to the US and being charged with aiding and abetting the enemy.

[DoughtyOne]

The only thing these misguided people will be shielding is Saddam's a--.

[MEG33]

How very racist of the shields to think their lives are more important than the iraqi civilians lives are.

[L`enn]

It actually was. I, though, had forgotten about it, until I read this article. Much was made of it at the time.

[1tin_soldier]

has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 18 years.

Golly, that's really taking one for the team, huh? How come if I did that, people would call me greedy?

[chasio649]

i know i really shouldn't post this....but i will have a little laugh if i hear that some of them got disintegrated by a bomb...sorry, just being honest....everyone else knows they will chuckle a little also.

[SkyPilot]

"I consider it an act of treason,"

Ofcourse it is, but until this nations actually administers the lawful negative consequences for treasonous behavior, this type of chest-beating by the Left will continue unabated.

If my puppy pees on the carpet--a rolled up newspaper a few times teaches him the results of negative behavior. Since the days of Jane Fonda, the only results of treasonous behavoir witnessed by the US population is adulation, celebrity, and faux gratitude.

[chasio649]

pictures of that make me ill...please...wait till a decent hour to post such evil!

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

It would be sad if that happened. Sad that is if any of them reproduced before they're turned into a really big crater.