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Posted by: "Jeri L Reed"  <mailto:jlreed@ou.edu?Subject=
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jeri_reed 

Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:32 pm (PST) 

>From Adam Kokesh's blog:  <http://kokesh.blogspot.com/>
http://kokesh.blogspot.com/

Friday, June 29, 2007

FIVE IVAW MEMBERS ARRESTED AT FORT JACKSON FOR WEARING IVAW
T-SHIRTS
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http://kokesh.blogspot.com/2007/06/five-ivaw-members-arrested-at-fort.html>

The IVAW Bus Tour arrived in Columbia yesterday and got right to 
outreach before settling down at the Sesquicentennial Park. We canvassed 
a couple Wal-Marts near Fort Jackson and a couple other areas that 
looked like GI hangouts. Today we decided to step it up a notch and go 
on base to meet with the one active duty member that we already have 
there. We got in through the visitors entrance without incident and went 
to the PX where I thought we were meeting our soldier. It turns out we 
were at the wrong PX and went to the main one. We wandered around for a 
few minutes, then sat down to wait for our friend.

When he arrived, we proceeded to the ManchuWOK for some lunch. I was 
last in line, and while I was getting my drink and talking to a GI, Lt J 
O Smith of the Department of the Army Fort Jackson Police #008 told me 
to put my tray down and step towards the door. On the way he grabbed the 
rest of our group, Nate Lewis, Mike Blake, Sholom Keller, and Steve 
Mortillo, who were sitting down having lunch with our soldier. When we 
got outside, we were surrounded by police, and there was a Park Ranger 
truck blocking in my car. They took our IDs and harassed us for a while 
with stupid questions, all the while refusing to tell us why we were 
being detained except for something about protesting on base.

They lined us up against a row of vending machines and told us to keep 
our hands at our sides. Sholom happened to have a copy of the 
Constitution on him and began quoting some craziness about rights, like 
"to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation." One of the 
officers went to give him back his ID card. "Is this your ID card, 
brother?" "Yes it is, and I'm not your brother. Dr King was a brother, 
Malcom was a brother, Huey P Newton was a brother. You are a traitor and 
a sell-out." Then one of the officers told me that because the base 
registration sticker on my Bronco was expired, he was going to have to 
scrape it off and he called me over to watch him do it. That was when I 
started taking pictures. Then the Lt started taking pictures of us with 
his phone.

They kept asking us questions and we generally refused to answer, while 
Sholom said something ridiculous about "The right of the people to be 
secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against 
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated." One 
gentleman came up and asked us what was going on and praised us for 
standing up for our rights.

Our soldier passed us and winked and then disappeared. We later found 
out that he went back to his car so he could videotape the whole thing. 
Hopefully we'll be able to get that up on YouTube later tonight. We 
stood around for another ten minutes or so while they radioed our 
information back and then out of the blue decided to cuff us and bring 
us in. We were frisked and loaded into their police cars. When we got to 
the station, we were put into interrogation rooms. We had to empty our 
pockets onto the table and then were frisked again. They confiscated my 
expired military ID, as they did with Sholom and Nate. Then an Army 
First Sergeant came in and started deleting the photos from my phone. 
Fortunately, I had a few of them "saved to my phone" and he only deleted 
the ones that were "In Camera."

After a few minutes of random questioning, we were led into a larger 
room together and the First Sergeant told us we were going to be taken 
back to the Bronco and escorted off base. "If you should be seen again 
around the gate area, you will be arrested for criminal trespassing." 
The Lt asked me my social security number for about the tenth time, and 
again I declined. Then they put a piece of paper on my lap that was a 
receipt for my ID card. It had my social on it, naturally.

We got loaded back into three police cars, and were driven back to the 
PX just as it started pouring rain. The guy driving Nate and I happened 
to be prior service as we had found out earlier, and I asked him what he 
thought about what was going on in Iraq. He evaded the question, but 
ended by saying "I just find it best to go along and get along." I said, 
"A lot of people were saying that in Germany in 1939," and Nate saved 
the chance for dialogue with, "Don't you thing we should allow the 
Iraqis a chance to get along?" We pulled up at the PX, got out of the 
cars, got let our of our cuffs, got our baggies of personal belongings 
and IDs, and got into the Bronco and drove off.

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