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''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 3:42:07 AM

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It seems you in the US should worry more about your own politicians than any other part of the world or people

“Arrest Me, I am a Terrorist”

Americans who supported, organized, or were on the flotilla headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid stormed the office of U.S. Congressmen Brad Sherman and turned themselves in for their “crimes.” The stunt was in response to Sherman’s call for Americans on the flotilla be arrested for helping “terrorists.”

Col. Ann Wright (ret.), a former U.S. diplomat, Gaza Freedom March organizer, and a passenger aboard the recent Freedom Flotilla, stated that: “Nine aid workers were murdered by Israeli commandos, and more than fifty were wounded. I want to look Brad Sherman in the eye and see if he has any sense for the gravity of this situation. If Sherman wants to have us arrested – we’ll be there.”

Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) has publicly called for the arrest and prosecution of “any U.S. citizens who were aboard or involved with the Freedom Flotilla” under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Rep. Sherman serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and chairs the subcommittee on terrorism and nonproliferation.

According to Rep. Sherman: “[It's] absolutely illegal for any American to give food, money, school supplies, paper clips, concrete …so I will be asking the Attorney General to prosecute any American involved in what was clearly an effort to give items of value to a terrorist organization.”
Rep. Sherman also stated that he was planning on working with the Department of Homeland Security to make sure all non-U.S. citizens aboard the Flotilla would be permanently barred from entering the U.S. This list includes Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire, former UN assistant secretary general Denis Halliday, as well as a number of parliamentarians and government officials from Ireland, Britain, Spain, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, and Israel.

Ramzi Kysia, an organizer with the Free Gaza Movement, said that: “Rep. Sherman is welcome to arrest me and try to make his case to a jury of my peers. Delivering humanitarian aid to people in need is not ‘terrorism.’

Brad Sherman is a prime example of just how degenerate our political discourse has become on Capitol Hill.”
The action illustrates the disconnect between a U.S. Congress which supports Israel unrelentingly, a White House that calls policies in Gaza unsustainable, and an international community condemning Israel’s raid of the flotilla.

You can help share the truth about the Gaza flotilla with your Congressperson and friends and also donate to send Ret. Col. Ann Wright on a speaking tour about the flotilla and siege of Gaza.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 3:50:03 AM

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http://www.usaid.gov/wbg/home.html

Its illegal and a terrorist act? Seems the US government will have to be impeached in its entirety then.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 7:21:50 AM

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It seems you in the US should worry more about your own politicians than any other part of the world or people

I'm not sure what this sentence means and what point you are trying to make relating to the article.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 8:48:13 AM

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If they had come to me I would have been glad to throw them in jail and toss the key.

I am all for peaceful protest...I am against the blockade as it is administered. But I am against fanatics whose only objective was to instigate a violent confrontation. There is no doubt in my mind some on that ship instigated the violence. Beating the soldiers with pipes as they repelled and forcing a deadly response.

Of course Israel’s poorly thought out blockade is ultimately the cause of the violence but they are not alone in blame for the deaths and if these people cannot see that they need to be in jail.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 8:52:47 AM

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What is "poorly thought out" about it? They are trying to keep out the Muslim terrorists and their armaments, what else are they supposed to do? I think the boarding plan was poorly thought out-- they should have just blasted the ship out of the water and therefore not risked their own lives on those scum.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 8:57:05 AM

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What is "poorly thought out" about it? They are trying to keep out the Muslim terrorists and their armaments, what else are they supposed to do? I think the boarding plan was poorly thought out-- they should have just blasted the ship out of the water and therefore not risked their own lives on those scum.

So you think it is making the citizens of Israel safer? You think it is keeping arms out of Hamas hands?

If you do I've a bridge for sale I think you would like.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 8:57:15 AM

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when you have both egypt participating in a blockade it says something about the nature of the blockade. They had ignored warnings from both Isreal and Egypt forces and so they suffered the consequences for their actions.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 9:57:20 AM

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http://www.usaid.gov/wbg/home.html

Its illegal and a terrorist act? Seems the US government will have to be impeached in its entirety then.

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Typical, people of this ilk would have a huge parade and march right past the homeless in their own countries and then travel thousands of miles to "help people in need." Hypocrites.
More likely they were trying to make some type of "political statement" although what it was is unknown.
And the U.S. govt. shouldn't be helping them either!

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 10:01:26 AM

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It sounds like Rep Sherman has it about right.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 1:11:51 PM

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when you have both egypt participating in a blockade it says something about the nature of the blockade. They had ignored warnings from both Isreal and Egypt forces and so they suffered the consequences for their actions.

Cool, so you think the punishment of a blockade that denies Palestinian citizens the basic every day commodities that we in the west take for granted on a daily basis is the right way ?.

Any country in the region that requires status and foreign aid from the west has to tow the west's line on things, their politics and all. Egypt in it's stance also gets protection from the foreign countries it serves. But of Egypt, their stance on the blockade of Palestine, it is not making the Egyptian regime very popular in Egypt, seeing as a large percentage of the Egyptian population are the same people as the Palestinians, i.e. Arab. An Arab minority or majority it matters not, who are adopting the hard line muslim approach. In keeping with western policy Egypt is attempting to leep the hard liners at bay, so what does it do.

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RE: ''Arrest me, I am a Terrorist'' - 6/14/2010 1:29:21 PM

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What is "poorly thought out" about it? They are trying to keep out the Muslim terrorists and their armaments, what else are they supposed to do? I think the boarding plan was poorly thought out-- they should have just blasted the ship out of the water and therefore not risked their own lives on those scum.

What is it with posters who use "cuckold" or "cucky" in their handles being completely retarded?

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