Some female war protestor is off to get laid rather than get arrested.
From the Daily Iowan:
Police arrested at least 11 protesters, including eight UI students, when they refused to leave the Cedar Rapids office of U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley late Monday, ending a three-hour display of civil disobedience contesting the Republican senator's unbridled support for the Iraq war.
Assembling at 3:30 p.m. in the downtown Federal Building, protesters - predominately UI Antiwar Committee members - demanded that Iowa's senior senator, who at the time was traveling to Washington, pledge to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq. After the petitioners said they wouldn't leave the building at its 5 p.m. closure unless Grassley communicated with them via telephone, U.S. marshals overseeing the complex notified the Cedar Rapids police.
The authorities charged 11 protesters - a group that included priest-turned-antiwar activist Frank Cordaro, Iowa City resident Rosemary Persaud, and eight UI students - with criminal trespass. As of 8:30 p.m. Monday, those individuals were being held in the Linn County jail on $325 cash, or surety, bond.
Among the student protesters was Joshua Casteel, a member of the Iraq Veterans Against the War who received Grassley's 1998 nomination to attend the prestigious West Point Academy. Last week, Casteel's play The Abu Ghraib Missive - a fact-based piece about his role as an Army interrogator at the notorious Iraqi prison - premiered at the UI...
...David Goodner, a UI undergraduate and Antiwar Committee member, said in an e-mail before the event that the group decided to employ extralegal means after failing with "traditional lobbying tactics" to persuade Grassley to alter his policy stands. That statement, which chastised the senator for voting to block Senate debate on an Iraq war resolution, noted that 15 dissenters had pledged to risk arrest...
Cited for criminal trespass Monday night in Cedar Rapids...:
- Andrew Alemao, UI student
- Frank Cordaro, Des Moines Catholic Worker, former priest
- Joshua Casteel, UI graduate student; The Abu Ghraib Missive creator
- John Paul Hornbeck, UI graduate student; member, Iraq Veterans Against the War
- David Goodner, UI student
- Timothy Gauger, UI employee
- Megan Feld, Iowa City resident
- Conor Murphy, UI student
- Ryan Merz, UI student
- Rosemary Persaud, Iowa City resident
- Justin Riley, UI student
Wow, all the usual suspects!
Josh Casteel's trying to extend his 15 Minutes a little further.
You remember David Goodner from his Jew-hating columns in the Iowa City Press-Citizen. He now blogs, naturally, for the Jew-hating Lefties at the Des Moines Register. Sieg Heil! Allah Akbar!
And it's not a party until Frank Cordaro gets arrested!
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