60 Days In Jail For Putting Up Anti-Bush Posters

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:51:46 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Greg Szymanski at The Arctic Beacon - Carol Fisher, 51, put up some anti-Bush posters in Cleveland. A cop told her she couldn't do that, so she stopped. He told her to take them down, so she tried. He tackled her and held her down, along with his buddies, handcuffed her, and took her to jail. The judge supported the pigs' actions, threatening to send the lady to the loony bin. After all, in Amerika, you're crazy if you don't love Bushnev. [clairefiles]

Her attorney, Terry Gilbert agreed with his client, adding after a recent pre-sentencing hearing to question Fisher's sanity:

"In more than 30 years of practicing law, I haven't seen anything remotely like this.This is gulag stuff. Is this the kind of country you want to live in when dissidents are determined to be crazy?"

Fisher faced a maximum 3-year prison term on a felonious assault conviction, but claims she was manhandled and assaulted by police who then lied about what happened. Gilbert said Fisher refused to accept a plea bargain, insisting she did nothing wrong and leading to what her attorney and many observers called a "politically motivated kangaroo court" filled with compromised witnesses and a prejudicial judge.

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