135 Arrested For Civil Disobedience at White House

By Rob Kall — OpEdNews.com

We were put on a bus, then taken to the Park police depot, searched, groped more in depth than ever before.

Gave personal data, and had to choose whether to pay $100 and plead guilty or plead not guilty and go to court (later.) I chose the latter.

Commenting on the turnout and the number of people participating in civil disobedience, McGovern commented, “It’s more than anyone really expected. I was glad we did it.

I asked Ray about what he hoped to see come of the exercise in civil disobedience. He replied, “There’s a saying that hope is the twin. Augustin said that hope has two daughters– anger and courage.

What we have seen in our policy is a lot of anger, But anger is not enough, you’ve got to have courage.

The basic flaw in the body politic is that it is malnourished on genuine information, so the attitude that expresses itself by people saying Americans can’t handle the truth. Well that isn’t very clear because Americans haven’t been given the truth. So the jury is out on whether or not Americans can handle the truth. But the issue is now joined because there is a fifth estate, namely Wikileaks and sites like it that are making information available to US citizens.

Once the citizenry becomes informed, in an unbiased way, about what is really going on, perhaps they’ll do something.

Once the citizenry realized our military are being brutalized themselves.

There are more deaths from suicide than there are from war.

We want people to ask themselves what we’re doing out there.

Hoping to be faithful and bring attention to this and leave it in the hands of the higher power that people’s hearts will be touched, they will realize the one thing we’ve turned a blind eye to the thousands of other prisoners who have been tortured by other Iraqis. That we’ve killed at the very least 100,000 civilians… by the most stringent estimates.

Others who participated in the civil disobedience action expressed hope that the example set here would encourage others, across the country to take action at a time when elected officials are no longer accountable.

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