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 luvdemshrooms
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 Now this is just wrong. 
#1802392 - 08/11/03 05:54 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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washingtonpost.com
U.S. Fines Woman for Being 'Human Shield'
The Associated Press
Monday, August 11, 2003; 9:42 AM
SARASOTA, Fla. - A retired schoolteacher who went to Iraq to serve as a "human shield" against the U.S. invasion is facing thousands of dollars in U.S. government fines, which she is refusing to pay.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said in a March letter to Faith Fippinger that she broke the law by crossing the Iraqi border before the war. Her travel to Iraq violated U.S. sanctions that prohibited American citizens from engaging in "virtually all direct or indirect commercial, financial or trade transactions with Iraq."
She and others from 30 countries spread out through Iraq to prevent the war. She spent about three months there. Only about 20 of nearly 300 "human shields" were Americans, she said.
Fippinger, who returned home May 4, is being fined at least $10,000, but she has refused to pay. She could face up to 12 years in prison.
In her response to the charges, she wrote the government that "if it comes to fines or imprisonment, "please be aware that I will not contribute money to the United States government to continue the buildup of its arsenal of weapons." Since she won't pay, she said, "perhaps the alternative should be considered."
The government also has asked Fippinger, 62, to detail her travels to Iraq and any financial transactions she made. In her response, Fippinger wrote that the only money she spent was on food and emergency supplies.
If Fippinger does not pay, the fine may increase, and the money will be drawn from her retirement paycheck, her Social Security check or any of her assets, officials said.
"She was (in Iraq) in violation of U.S. sanctions," said Taylor Griffin, a Treasury Department spokesman. "That's what happens."
Shortly before the U.S. invasion in March, Fippinger was one of several dozen human shields scattered around a refinery in Baghdad.
"We are planning to stay here in the refinery if war breaks out," Fippinger said at the time. "We are staying here because we think this war is unjust."
? 2003 The Associated Press
We should PAY this type of nitwit to go be human shields.
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 shakta
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Why?
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wingnutx
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That's pretty dumb.
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luvdemshrooms
Two inch dick..but it spins!?
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Re: Now this is just wrong. [Re: shakta]
#1802428 - 08/11/03 06:03 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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So we can be rid of them.
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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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luvdemshrooms
Two inch dick..but it spins!?
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Re: Now this is just wrong. [Re: wingnutx]
#1802434 - 08/11/03 06:04 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
wingnutx said:
That's pretty dumb.
Seriously speaking, it is dumb.
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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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pattern
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If Fippinger does not pay, the fine may increase, and the money will be drawn from her retirement paycheck, her Social Security check or any of her assets, officials said.
You guys have some wacky laws.
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Earth_Droid
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Re: Now this is just wrong. [Re: pattern]
#1803174 - 08/11/03 09:38 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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That is rediculous!
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PsiloKitten
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Re: Now this is just wrong. [Re: pattern]
#1803192 - 08/11/03 09:42 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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The US Govt does indeed have some wacky laws. A bicyclist who decided to say fuck you to the govt and bike through Cuba anyway returned home to the same thing...
Freedom isnt free.
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