Sherman Austin Quotes
Two special agents at the front door pulled me outside. By that time, they had already had the house surrounded with loaded weapons, machine guns, shotguns... about 25 federal agents.
Austin, Sherman. Interview by Amy Goodman. "Anarchist Webmaster Faces One Year in Federal Prison." Democracy Now!, 17 July 2003.
This idea was incorporated in the FBI's "Most Wanted" list.
And let the sheriffs who have arrested them bring them before the justice without any other summons.
This assize is generally considered to be the first written specification of due process in English Common Law.
While not all the indictments of the International Criminal Court were against Africans the majority were. Some African leaders thought that a double standard was being used against them. Banda’ observed that African unity was made extremely difficult as several heads of African states were indicted war criminals, and under the Rome Treaty which had been signed by most African nations obligated them to arrest indicted war criminals who were on their soil. So the African states could not hold a meeting of all African leaders without the host country being in the dilemma of whether or not to arrest them. In reality, in the decades leading up to this quotation, most of the worst atrocities did occur in Africa. The Presidents of the Sudan and Kenya were both indicted war criminals as well as some other officials and revolutionary group leaders. At the time the United States had not ratified the Treaty of Rome and this was not the best example for the Africans. However they had ratified it.
This quotation illustrates a new tactic adopted by the Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) in 2014. They trained very young children (with their parents permission) in how to handle themselves in a protest when the police arrive and tell them to disperse. By having children as young as 11 protesting shutting down streets in Washington so that they would get arrested. Coping with young children committing civil disobedience was something the police were not used to and involved much more complex procedures than arresting adult demonstrators. In addition, the sight of such young children being arrested for civil disobedience attracted much attention from the media, thereby publicizing the immigration issue. Elias and his mother were both U. S. citizens. In 2006 Elias’s father, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, returned to Mexico to apply for a visa to visit his wife and son. He was denied, so he crossed the border without papers. He was deported from the family home in 2008 and Elias and his mother had not seen him since then. Under the then existing immigration rules and laws, even a person whose spouse and children were U. S. citizens residing in America, could not even get a visa to visit them much less get citizenship. The Obama administration’s “family friendly” policies collapsed with immigration where the policies broke up otherwise intact families.
Sherman Martin Austin is an American anarchist and musician who was arrested for inflammatory content on his website and subsequently convicted. He was the first person to be successfully prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. 842(p), a United States federal law which makes the distribution of information on explosives unlawful if the information is provided with the knowledge or intent that the information will be used to commit a violent federal crime. Austin was convicted under a plea agreement in 2002 and served a one-year sentence in federal prison. Some academics and activists, including Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, protested the prosecution of Austin.
