Iran Pledge of Resistance and jury nullification
Minor wingnut talk radio figure Jim McQuinn out of Pittsburgh this morning confirms what most who can add 2 and 2 in order to come up with 4 already knew…
The Bush admin’s recent labeling of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization is part of a deliberate attempt to prepare the legal groundwork for an unprovoked attack on Iran in the very near future.
The fascists who control the US government have been aching to make such an attack for a long time. A while back, a few of us on the left put together the Iran Pledge of Resistance in response to their ongoing threat:
We, the undersigned, will not further acquiesce to military aggression against other nations by the Bush regime. In the event of an attack by US military forces against the nation of Iran, we pledge to oppose that aggression by our active participation in a campaign of mass non-violent resistance, including civil disobedience, with the express intent of impeding further aggression.
I ask readers to do three things:
1) Join us in signing the Iran Pledge of Resistance.
2) Help promote the Iran Pledge of Resistance. Tell your friends and family. Send people links. Talk about it. Spread the word far and wide.
3) Help promote jury nullification as the correct grassroots response to criminal charges for acts of non-violent resistance carried out in accordance with the Iran Pledge of Resistance. If I was on a jury, I would remember that the historical prerogative of jurors has, for hundreds of years, been to disregard any and all instructions from the judge in order to judge the justice of the law in question in addition to the facts (and mitigating circumstances) of any given case.
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Signed it way back…I’m number 88. I’ll have to do a promotional post later this week.
I just signed it.
BTW: you haven’t signed the pledge of Meme resistance, have you? :^)