"My Head Exploded When Obama Sanctimoniously Said, 'We Tortured Some Folks'"

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169. Those "folks" go free and people like Maureen Clare Murphy

are targeted by Holder's Justice Dept. So, we let right wing torturers off the hook, in fact refer to them as "patriots", and leftists get subpoenas to testify before the grand jury.

The United States government has criminalised the Palestinian people, and now it is increasingly treating US citizens who stand in solidarity with Palestine as criminals as well - including those courageously putting their lives on the line to break the siege on Gaza.

I am a Palestine solidarity activist in the US, and one of 23 US citizens who have been issued with a subpoena to appear before a federal grand jury as part of what the government has said is an investigation into violations of the laws banning material support to foreign "terrorist organisations".

None of us have given money or weapons to any group on the State Department's foreign terrorist organisation list. But what many of us have done is participate in or help organise educational trips to meet with Palestinians and Colombians resisting the US-funded military regimes they live under.

The goal of these trips is to learn about the human rights violations happening in these places and to bring those stories back home to the US, to educate people and to organise to change US foreign policy for the better.

More here: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/06/2011626121757256629.html

And here:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/01/25/activism-not-crime-why-i-will-not-testify-federal-grand-jury
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/nine-palestinians-killed-protests-across-west-bank