Excerpt: "A federal judge has found four women guilty of entering a national wildlife refuge without a permit as they sought to place food and water in the Arizona desert for migrants."
No More Deaths volunteers. (photo: Matt Nager)
Arizona: Four Women Convicted After Leaving Food and Water in Desert for Migrants
19 January 19
Federal judge finds activists guilty of entering a national wildlife refuge without a permit to give aid to migrants
federal judge has found four women guilty of entering a national wildlife refuge without a permit as they sought to place food and water in the Arizona desert for migrants.
US magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco�s ruling on Friday marked the first conviction against humanitarian aid volunteers in a decade.
The four found guilty of misdemeanours in the recent case were volunteers for No More Deaths, which said in a statement the group had been providing life-saving aid to migrants.
The volunteers include Natalie Hoffman, Oona Holcomb, Madeline Huse and Zaachila Orozco-McCormick.
Hoffman was found guilty of operating a vehicle inside Cabeza Prieta national wildlife refuge, entering the federally protected area without a permit, and leaving water jugs and cans of beans there in August 2017.
The others were found guilty of entering without a permit and leaving behind personal property.
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Obama is a Muslim--I think it's in the Bible.
Obama was born in Kenya--I heard it is definitely in the Bible.
Obama is a socialist--only too obvious since he is a Democrat.
Liberals are devils--moot.
Barack/Michelle Obama are terrorists--the fist-bumps to proved it.
Obama hates America--he's not one of us so this is too easy.
Obama did not attend nor graduate from Harvard--where is the proof other than his diploma, press releases, transcripts, tax records, etc., and who believes those?
R-money and Ryan are god-fearing Christians who hold their Jesus-inspired beliefs sacrosanct and would never waiver in their policies. Well, it's true R-money is a Mormon so maybe I have to wait and see...
We must take the precepts of the Bible literally, except for those that we find inconvenient as defined by that Saint Ralph Reed.
Jesus hates Muslims--it's in the Bible somebody said. Ralph?
Jesus hates homosexuals--it 's in the Bible somewhere but I can't find it.
Jesus hates women--it's in the Bible all over the place.
Slavery is a good Christian practice since it is in the Bible, also all over the place.
Jesus will return to earth and save me if only we can start a war in Jerusalem.
It is a VERY long list and this is only the Cliff Notes version.
As a result of looking into the beady little eyes of Todd Akin and hearing his moronic remarks in every news outlet for the past few days, I've figured it out. These men must be such abysmally bad lovers that they've never had sex with a woman who was even enjoying it, never mind having orgasms. Since their partners just lie there waiting for it to be over, every sexual encounter must seem a little like rape to these men.
No WONDER they're so calloused about rape. They have no personal experience with a female sexual partner who is enjoying the encounter. They literally don't know what a real woman having a real orgasm looks like! I get it now!
Mystery solved.
DON'T VOTE REPUBLICAN AT ANY LEVEL, we have states that need cleaning out too.
DO VOTE and vote straight democrat, don't ever sit out an election again and let this happen to us.
Akin is stupid.
How do politicians, on all levels, get to be so ignorant?
Maybe there is a correlation between getting in office and getting stupid.
Can some of you please sort out the mess you have there America?
I thought Sarah Palin and that Bachman woman were bad but these old white men, they take the cake.
Incumbents must be voted out of office BEFORE they turn stupid.
Awesome . . . . .
Perhaps Akin should spend a few nights at one of Missouri's finest prisons. He might have a better understanding of rape.
How can he justify the comment that, " women are unlikely to become pregnant by 'forcible rape,' ?
HE CAN'T
1.How about the absurdity of the comment itself. You can't get pregnant if you're raped. Women around the world are sold to men for life (the brains who translate to English call these sales "marriage", "husbands" "wives") with words that do not describe the same status in all places (why not translate as "slaves"). Well, these women do get pregnant as have women defined as "slaves" always have. Those are all real rapes.
2. What about leaving women out of the equation. According to Akin, the rapist should be punished, the child shouldn't. He forgot there's someone else in that equation. Oh right, she's only a woman; she doesn't matter.
3.Akin and I disagree on whether or not a human fetus is a human being. Many people seem to think it's the size of the sonogram and not some miniscule little thing that most of us would not be able to distinguish from a rat fetus.
4. But even if we agree not to discuss whether the fetus is human, what other situation do we have where one human is required to donate their bodies to keep another human alive? You don't have to donate blood for your own child. Is any man forced to donate a kidney?
This BS is abominanble