Comments on: Judge rules against Choi in ‘vindictive’ prosecution claim http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/17/judge-rules-against-choi-in-%e2%80%98vindictive%e2%80%99-prosecution-claim/ the gay community's news source Tue, 21 May 2013 16:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: customartist http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/17/judge-rules-against-choi-in-%e2%80%98vindictive%e2%80%99-prosecution-claim/#comment-36565 customartist Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:50:39 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=30234#comment-36565 Michael,

Thank you for clarifying this.

Absent in all of this are the complaints of “Too Big Government” that we so frequently hear from the Right. Protests such as these remind me of the Alabama marches of the 60′s and the same Governmental domineering that was also experienced then.

Now it is Wall-Street. Let the protests contine.

]]> By: Mke http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/17/judge-rules-against-choi-in-%e2%80%98vindictive%e2%80%99-prosecution-claim/#comment-36392 Mke Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:14:40 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=30234#comment-36392 In D.C. I don’t think judicial professionals there would be vindective towards Dan Choi, but I wouldn’t want to see this precident continued all over the country, because in BFE America, gay issues do inspire a ton of animus.

]]> By: George Myers http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/17/judge-rules-against-choi-in-%e2%80%98vindictive%e2%80%99-prosecution-claim/#comment-36259 George Myers Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:37:26 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=30234#comment-36259 A veteran went actually over the White House fence under the previous administration, emphatically trying to speak to then President George W. Bush, to end the sniper operations in Iraq. He thought it was not working and had lead to accelerated acts against US personnel, Humvee tires shot out of nowhere, which I once thought not deflatable, and other indeterminable bullet origins. These protest actions do not present a trespass or criminal intent, why not allowed under the Bill of Rights? “Obstructing a sidewalk” had been used against some sitting along one NYC back in the last century.

]]> By: Michael Bedwell http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/17/judge-rules-against-choi-in-%e2%80%98vindictive%e2%80%99-prosecution-claim/#comment-36169 Michael Bedwell Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:50:46 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=30234#comment-36169 What keeps getting lost in this is the fact that Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela George charged ALL 13 of us with the same extradordinary federal offense even tho she tries to justify applying it to Dan Choi because it was his third arrest at the White House. SEVEN of the 13, including myself, had NOT been arrested at the White House at all before for protesting during the same period in which Dan was arrested but we aere ALSO given the same charge.

As an officer of the court, I believe Ms. George, too, is sworn to act and speak truthfully. Pity she is incapable of that, and that Judge Lamberth has joined her in twisting the law to benefit the government. I hasten to emphasize that I had no problem with being arrested for an act of civil disobedience. But the specific charge applied to us was legally unjustified, and, thus, we were all vindictively prosecuted.

Michael Bedwell
Arrestee #5
The White House
November 15, 2010

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