This is quite possibly the best news story ever written, sure to put a smile on your face before the three-day weekend:
Former U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating.
In a press release from the Green Party, McKinney said the form states that the Spirit of Humanity, a Greek-flagged relief boat carrying 21 activists, medical supplies, cement, olive trees and children’s toys en route to Gaza, was violating the Israeli blockade and trespassing the country’s territorial waters.
Best part is, nobody in Washington is going to want to deal with this on what is effectively a weekend afternoon — meaning good ol’ Cynthia might be spending the entire weekend in an Israeli jail.
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1. Silicon Valley Jim:a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating
If they were in the US, they might have a case. I’m completely ignorant of Israeli law on this point, but I do think that it’s important to note that Israeli law, and not ours, governs in Israeli’s territorial waters, and it’s just possible that Israeli law does not provide a right not to self-incriminate.
And, of course, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving person. I can think of perhaps a dozen people as deserving as former congresscreature McKinney, but none more deserving.
Jul 2, 2009 - 4:04 pm 2. jon:I wish the concept of civil disobedience was more thoroughly explained to the many people who attempt to use it. The idea is to break the law, get arrested, take the punishment, and then publicize the unjust law from a position as an obvious victim. It’s not surprising that the “take the punishment” part is what people overlook, but I guess I’m just an idealist who thinks Martin Luther King Junior’s Letter from a Birmingham Parkbench for Coloreds wouldn’t have had the same impact as did his writing from jail.
Jul 2, 2009 - 4:23 pm 3. Obi's Sister:Couldn’t happen to a better moonbat!
Jul 2, 2009 - 6:46 pm 4. Jim:But aren’t the other Israeli prisoners to be prohibited from cruel and unusual punishment?
Jul 2, 2009 - 11:00 pm 5. rosignol:But aren’t *we* to be prohibited from cruel and unusual punishment?
They’re welcome to keep her as long as they like.
It’s going to be a good weekend.
Jul 3, 2009 - 12:04 am 6. rosignol:But aren’t *we* to be prohibited from cruel and unusual punishment?
They’re welcome to keep her as long as they like.
It’s going to be a good weekend.
Jul 3, 2009 - 3:38 am 7. Garrett:P.S. – Sorry, forgot to tell you great post!
/ Nelson Muntz Hah Hah!
Jul 3, 2009 - 7:48 am 8. rbj:I don’t want her,
Jul 3, 2009 - 12:37 pmyou can have her,
she’s too crazy for me.
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