Save William Harvey

[queerbychoice]

If, instead of posting this entry into LiveJournal, I were to print it out in pamphlet form and stand on a streetcorner handing out the pamphlets, I might get sent to prison for it.

(Thanks to Frank for the link.)

Comments

This is scary!

[princesswitch.livejournal.com]

Is there a legal defense fund or anything like that? I think I should also look up a few addresses...

[eeek.livejournal.com]

as much as i belive in free speach, and what they did to that man is rediculously illegal....(and i cant stand the us for being so bluntenly obvious about it)

i think he should have been left on the street so the angry mob could get at him.
if i had lost a family member on the 11th, and some asshole had the odesity to preach how my father, mother brother, husband, wife or child DESERVED it because they were american i would have torn his fucking balls off. its called respect. write a letter to the government, dont pur salt on peoples unhealable wounds.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

My impression of the events, though I certainly was not witness to them, is that Mr. Howard was not claiming that the Americans who were killed deserved to be killed, but rather that the American government, had it chosen to behave more civilly toward civilians in outher countries, might not have inspired the rage that provoked terrorists to start killing random innocent American citizens in the first place. He was placing the blame on the American government, not on the individual people in America who were murdered.

To say that the American government behaved in ways that provoked rage does not imply that it's justified to start murdering random individual people who just happen to be inside one of the buildings within the American national borders. Random people inside the World Trade Center were not making the decisions about imposing sanctions on Iraq and such. The American government makes those decisions and there is absolutely nothing I as a citizen can do to change those decisions except to simply keep loudly proclaiming to the world that I disapprove and hope somebody listens - perhaps even standing on streetcorners handing out pamphlets like Mr. Howard was doing.

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[eeek.livejournal.com]

i completly agree with that.

and i even agree with what mr. Howard was saying, whole heartedly, but, like you just told me, as a citizen you have nothing to do with it. what he did, simply proved to the government that if you stand up against them, the public will stand up for them. there are certain topics that are unfair to be so boldly proclaimed. when the issue is between governments, its the governments you should contact.

also, the issue at hand, is a sensative one, and he obviously didnt have the brain to think about that before he started to protest.

[zeza3.livejournal.com]

holy shit!

[aliendreamer.livejournal.com]

Ugh. That's fucked up.

_Imp