Anti-Death Penalty Group: No Execution For UBL, Or Hitler Either
Don’t Execute Bin Laden, Say Activists at Supreme Court
By Nicholas Ballasy - (CNSNews)
Members of various activist groups from around the country, under the umbrella of the Abolitionist Action Committee (AAC), gathered at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to protest capital punishment as well as Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain’s support for the death penalty.
Some activists said the death penalty should not be imposed against terrorist Osama bin Laden or, in retrospect, against dictator Adolf Hitler.
According to the group’s official Web site, the AAC is “an ad-hoc group of individuals committed to highly visible and effective public education for alternatives to the death penalty through nonviolent direct action.”
The site also says nine people were arrested during last year’s protest for refusing to put down a 30-foot banner that read “STOP EXECUTIONS!” on the stairs of the Court. The Court’s security arrested all nine members and put them in jail for more than 30 hours before they were released by a Superior Court judge.
Cybercast News Service interviewed some of the activists. They were asked about McCain and Obama’s support of the death penalty; if Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks should be given the death penalty if captured; and if dictator Adolf Hitler should have been given the death penalty.
Cybercast News Service interviewed Bill Pelke, whose grandmother was murdered. Her killer was given the death penalty but he said he later had a “change of heart.”
Cybercast News Service also spoke to Andre Latallade, who walked from Trenton, New Jersey, on March 31, 2008 — after the state legislature abolished the death penalty — to Texas, the U.S. state with the most executions, to protest capital punishment; Scott Langley, who was arrested at last year’s protest and said if you wear a shirt with “any kind of political message,” you are not able to walk on the steps of the Supreme Court; and Anne Feczko, a member of Amnesty International who hopes that Obama is saying he supports the death penalty only because it is “politically inconvenient” to say otherwise.
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These are the same shitheels that have no problem with abortion on demand and see nothing wrong with late term abortions born alive but being put on a shelf to die.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:21 pmsully:
This is just a cancer growth from the lump of flesh dipshits who believe animals have a greater right to life than unborn children.
July 5th, 2008 at 5:03 amMaybe the Government should not press the switch, maybe they should have a lottery (buck a ticket) and the winner gets to pull the switch.
July 5th, 2008 at 5:06 amLike somebody else in here said…we should get rid of the paid liars (read lawyers) first, then the judges who don’t understand justice or the Constitution. By any means necessary. Then we’ll have justice in the land again and these pukes will be sitting in an insane asylum waiting their turn on shock therapy day at the nearest nuthouse.
July 5th, 2008 at 5:51 amThe Obamanation on late term abortion ’survivors’… more radical that NARAL….
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18647
July 5th, 2008 at 6:19 amThen how do you expect to keep them alive? Mystical fairy power? No, keeping people in jail costs the AMERICAN TAXPAYER wads of dough to keep child rapists/murderers, Jefferey Dahmers, serial murderers alive. And that isn’t freedom to me, that’s jail.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:52 am