From Peter Orvetti at Green Party Watch:
Maryland Green Party U.S. Senate candidate Margaret Flowers was arrested Tuesday morning at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on instruction of committee chairman Sen. John McCain. Flowers and several CODEPINK activists attended the hearing to protest the U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan Saturday that killed at least 22 people including patients and children.
The activists were wearing medical garb marked with fake blood, and Flowers was holding a sign which read “BOMBING HOSPITALS= WAR CRIME”. On being removed from the hearing room, Flowers said, “Bombing hospitals is a war crime. Stop the bombing now.” She later said from the Capitol Hill jail, “There needs to be an independent investigation into the hospital bombing in Kunduz because targeting hospitals is against international law. I am appalled first that the US did this and second that instead of taking responsibility, the military is trying to avoid it.”
Great points, Starchild.
Jill Pyeatt writes (October 7, 2015 at 11:10 am)
Awesome work! I respect this type of in-your-face activism.
Me too! I’d like to see it more honored and celebrated within libertarian circles.
The atrocity of this murderous act by our military should be a turning point for this country. When will we stop tolerating war, and pretending the military is “fighting for our freedoms”?
I don’t know, but I think it will happen sooner if we avoid calling it “our” military. The U.S. government, not “we the people” is clearly calling the shots (literally and figuratively) to further their own interests and agendas.
To be fair though, we have no reason I’m aware of to believe that the bombing of the hospital in Kunduz was anything other than an accident. However that does not let those in charge of the U.S. government’s military operations in Afghanistan off the hook, because dropping bombs in a city is inherently likely to cause civilian casualties, and they should not have been sanctioning such practices in the first place.
I agree. Their hearing is not more important than lives lost to American war and plunder.
Awesome work! I respect this type of in-your-face activism.
The atrocity of this murderous act by our military should be a turning point for this country. When will we stop tolerating war, and pretending the military is “fighting for our freedoms”?
How many new “terrorists” did this bombing create?