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Government's claims rejected

mardi 19 mai 2015 à 14:00

The conviction of Megan Rice and other protesters against nuclear weapons have been reversed on appeal.

The judges ruled that the protesters' symbolic acts, followed by surrender, could not be considered a serious attempt to harm US national security.

They rejected the government's outrageous claims, such as that putting up a banner, hammering on a concrete building, or embarrassing the government for its incompetence, can count as damaging national security. However, the fact that officials made such claims is damning in itself. Those officials are trying to make the US a police state.