Would You Go to Jail to Protest Torture?

[struggle4progress]

By Sherwood Ross

... Franciscan Louis Vitale and Jesuit Stephen Kelly .... were 75 and 58, respectively, when they were jailed.

They submitted themselves for arrest in November, 2006, as they knelt in prayer in the driveway at the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

Ft. Huachuca has been described as the source of the torture manuals used at the infamous School of the Americas.

Writing about his experience in “Sojourners,” an ecumenical Christian magazine, Father Vitale says he and Father Kelly had “hoped to deliver a letter opposing the teaching of torture” to those in charge and to speak with enlisted personnel about the base’s “illegality and immorality” ... http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/would-you-go-to-jail-to-protest-torture/5265/

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

1. Jailing clergy. Way to go, government.

One of my friends was a religious sister, and she had run afoul of the authorities for similar protests in her younger days.

[Jim__]

2. Unfortunately, we know that the answer for almost all of us is no.

We all know that our government has been torturing people. How many went to jail for protesting that?

Suppose we were willing to go to jail. Suppose we had blocked rush hour traffic every morning and afternoon 'til they had jailed all of the protesters. Would it have made a difference? We'll never know.

[Occam Bandage]

3. Of course not.