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To: rottweiller_inc
This is pure bull. You can fast at least 40 days. He's just a publicity seeking fake.
11 posted on 05/11/2002 4:17:53 PM PDT by holyscroller
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To: holyscroller
Yup. 9 days without water could threaten the life but not 9 days without food.. but ..if they are vegan they might not have the fortitude people should have. :)
13 posted on 05/11/2002 4:28:21 PM PDT by rottweiller_inc
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To: holyscroller
At 1.17 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5th, having completed sixty-five days on hunger-strike, Bobby Sands MP, died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh.
20 posted on 05/11/2002 4:46:36 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: holyscroller
Look how pale and wimpy and near emaciated these types were before they even WENT to Israel, or STARTED a hunger strike. I think they are all living on bird seed.

One way or another their life style is FOR the birds.

25 posted on 05/11/2002 4:59:39 PM PDT by crystalk
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To: holyscroller

He was refusing to drink liquids.  Of course, if they haul him away to a hospital, they'll put him in four-point restraints and rehydrate him.  THEN they can put his butt on a plane and send him back to the states.
U.S. activist in Israeli jail collapses from hunger strike

An American activist held in an Israeli jail has collapsed nine days into a hunger strike protesting his detention, his lawyer said Saturday.

Trevor Baumgardner from Seattle, Washington, was among a group of pro-Palestinian activists who attempted to enter the Church of the Nativity compund in Bethlehem on May 2. Ten made it into the church in defiance of Israeli troops. Thirteen other members of International Solidarity Movement - a group devoted to focusing attention on the Palestinians - were arrested, nine of whom have been deported. The remaining four, all U.S. citizens, are on a hunger strike in an Israeli jail.

Allegra Pachecco, an American-Israeli human rights lawyer who was representing the group, identified the three American activists imprisoned with Baumgardner as Thomas Koutsoukos from Lake Forest, Illinois, Nathan Musselman from Roanoke, Virginia and Nathan Muegher from Spokane, Washington. On Saturday, her clients informed her that Baumgardner, who has refused to drink water since Tuesday, had collapsed.

Georgina Reeves, a spokeswoman for the group, said three activists from the group arrested Friday have already been deported.

29 posted on 05/11/2002 7:25:18 PM PDT by Catspaw
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