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In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
  • Can you not see that a person may take action upon the dictates of conscience, and that conscience may not always dovetail with the law

    be that as it may, but when that act is an effort to rob me of my American rights (rather than give more people equal rights like the civil disobedience of the Civil Rights movement) and force me to follow her beliefs, it's UNDEMOCRATIC, illegal and punishable.

    Don't try to paint this as an honorable act of civil disobedience. IT was an effort to intimidate me from exercising my Constitutional rights. And that is dispicable, regardles of it it "dovetails with the law."