Posted on 09/26/2005 9:45:11 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
BINGHAMTON NY--the Ithaca New York antiwar protesters who threw blood on a recruiting center, a soldier and the American flag in 2003 have been found guilty of three counts by a federal court.
According to the Ithaca Journal, the group, which calls itself “ the St. Patrick’s Day Four,” was found guilty of three counts of damaging federal property, but acquitted of the most serious conspiracy charge.
The group was accused of going to a Army recruiting center near Ithaca on March 17, 2003, and throwing their own blood on the walls, the floor, the United States flag and Staff Sgt. Rachon Montgomery, who was working as an army recruiter that day.
The protesters, while admitting to their actions, claim they have done nothing wrong. The four, who are representing themselves, claimed that their actions were legally justified because they did it to stop the United States from invading Iraq.
During the trial, it was revealed that two of the four protesters, Peter DeMott and Clare Grady, had previous histories of committing violent acts against federal property.
DeMott and Grady, along with fellow protesters Daniel Burns and Theresa Grady, will be sentenced at a later date.
The group had previously been tried on similar charges in a Tompkins County court, but that case ended in a hung jury. At that time, Tompkins County District Attorney George Dentes stated that he believed the Ithaca-area jurors were “motivated by political ideology and not by the evidence.”
YES!!!!!
Why was this not charged as a TERRORISM ATTACK?...........
You realize two of the St. Pat's Four were in Crawford with el Shehadist... when she set her cloven hooves down to stalk.
These freaks better get some time in the slammer.
The penalty?
Sheehan was supposed to show up at the court house for their trial, but never did.
The 4 will now be sentenced in Federal Court in Binghamton in January.
If I had been there a lot more blood would have been spilled.
If it ever gets to the 9th Circus, they will be sentenced to time served, and a Hero's Medal of the Soviet Union. They should get a public beating.
These pukes should have been shot.
So each of the four just decided to go over to the resruiting center with the blood and all at the same time without discussing it with the other three ahead of time?
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately for them that's not a matter of opinion but law. I'm glad some of these nutjobs are being prosecuted and found guilty.
Hooray!!
Should be a lesson to any Ithaca uberliberals. Don't step across the town line into comparatively conservative Lansing and think you can pull such stunts.
...wishing I had known this when I was in Crawford
At the very least, a hate crime.....I am assuming they hate the Army, the flag and especially America.
In today's age of AIDS and other blood-borne diseases, I would look upon it as ATTEMPTED MURDER..
I would look upon shooting them as Self Defence..
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