Two More Sentenced After Protesting School for Latin American Soldiers

[Tsiyu]

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - Two more protesters arrested during a demonstration at a U.S. training academy for Latin American soldiers were sentenced to prison Wednesday for trespassing.
Brian DeRouen, 26, and Aaron Peter Shuman, 32, were sentenced to four months each; 12 others have been sentenced to punishments ranging from probation to prison.

About 16,000 people demonstrated outside the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning in November, calling for the school to be shut down and claiming that graduates committed civil rights abuses including murder.


http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBOG9YFG4E.html

[w4rma]

1. I think Castro graduated from there. (nt)

[da_chimperor]

2. Castro was a lawyer. Manuel Noriega was a graduate, among others n/t

[ugarte]

3. Protest and prison awaits

The real State of the Nation.

[yellowcanine]

4. "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation" aka School of the

Americas - When the shit hit the fan in the 1980s over Latin American militaries being trained in torture techniques (Hmm - sound familiar?), the name was changed. But it is still the same wolf, only now it looks like Mary's little lamb.

[gratuitous]

6. John Negroponte's school of choice

For recruiting thugs, murderers and torturers for little extra-democratic death squad gambits in Central America in the 1980s. And hey presto! it's the same Negroponte who is now our ambassador to Iraq. What a coincidence.

For a fun and instructive exercise, compare the length of sentences handed out to these protestors with those given to our military folks for torturing Iraqis.

[struggle4progress]

5. kick

[NYC]

7. "School for Latin American Soldiers"

That's yet another name for it. Sounds mild, doesn't it?

They changed the name from School of the Americas to WHISC, hoping to mislead people. Now the headline doesn't even use WHISC.

[EFerrari]

8. Good for the protestors! These people teach torture. n/t