Monday, May 24, 2010

Environmentalists’ $100,000 Bail for Civil Disobedience

from Green is the New Red. This is what happens when a capitalist ruling class of a "democratic" nation feels that their profits are threatened by people exercising constitutional rights. Rights to profit trump civil rights every time.
This type of disproportionate response to non-violent activism isn’t an isolated instance. For example, when activists were arrested in their non-violent campaign against the I-69 NAFTA superhighway, the government argued for a high bond by saying that one of the defendants, Hugh Farrell, “advocated literature and materials which advocate anarchy.”