“If we fail, if this law stands, if in the years ahead the military starts to randomly seize and disappear people, if dissidents and activists become subject to indefinite and secret detention in military gulags, we will at least be able to look back on this moment and know we fought back,” he wrote. On Monday this week, activist and co-plaintiff Tangerine Bolen wrote that the high court’s decision to ignore the case means that “the fundamental right of due process and our fundamental rights of free speech and association . . . no longer matter.” “We have tried to stand up to this madness: we are outnumbered, outspent and outgunned - a David intrepidly fighting a Goliath that spans the planet and has the power to shape our reality - thus shaping what the courts even see. We have sacrificed greatly to do this - and yet we would do it all again,” she wrote.
Posted on: Thu, 01 May 2014 20:05:22 +0000
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