As a result of the events on the 20th, 32 people have been arrested. Daniel Ellsberg said when the magistrate told him the charge was "unlawful assembly" he thought: "Unlawful assembly ? I thought of that as a pre-Revolutionary charge: "Disperse, ye rabble! Go to your homes!' I was under the belief that the First Amendment--protecting the right "peaceably to assemble to petition for redress of grievances' was supposed to "change all that.' Could there be a clearer description of what we were doing--right at the immediate site of one of the grievances? Granted, we were in a highway: but the State Police had blocked off that road themselves, for the period of our assembly : we weren't even "disrupting traffic.'"
Now, it goes to the Prince William Courts. It will be an opportunity for the courts to enforce and protect the most basic constitutional rights of Americans, or an opportunity to turn those guarantees into a farce. Let's hope the courts side with the people and the Constitution or the shock troops at Quantico could become a model seen in other parts of the country.
Videos of the Events on March 20th Outside the Quantico Marine Base
Police brutality against Col. Ann Wright and Daniel Ellsberg at Free Bradley Manning Protest
The Uncommon Valor of
Bradley Manning
Hundreds Rally for Bradley Manning at White House, Dozens Arrested for Free Speech
Kevin Zeese is on the Steering Committee of the Bradley Manning Support Network and directs Come Home America.
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