Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

BLOOD WRATH: IRAQ WAR PROTESTERS FACE CRIMINAL CHARGES
Last year, Clare Grady, along with her sister and two others, were charged in county court with misdemeanors for their actions in a March 2003 anti-war protest outside Ithaca, New York. More than a year later, that trial ended with a hung jury. The federal government then brought its own case against the activists, now known as the "St. Patrick's Four." On Monday, they were found not guilty of the federal charges for conspiracy, which carry a maximum six years in jail and $250,000 fine, but convicted of misdemeanor-level trespassing and damaging government property. In January, they will be sentenced, with a maximum possible term of 18 months behind bars.
(VILLAGE VOICE)