Vets for Peace T-shirt Sales Could Boom
In what will surely be recorded as a historical moment of US government brutal human rights hypocrisy and possibly a sales boost for Vets For Peace t-shirt sales, at Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's speech at George Washington University Tuesday, condemning human rights violations by governments that arrest protestors and prevent free expression, police assaulted 71-year-old Ray McGovern and jailed him for standing peacefully as he listened to her. McGovern was wearing a Vet for Peace t-shirt.
This latest demonstration of US crackdown on dissent has resulted in the nation's top human rights leaders condemning Tuesday's U.S. police brutality.
"Hillary Clinton talks of freedom without pause while watching Ray McGovern be beat up by guards/goons. Freedom is one of those things only appropriate for the 'others,' not Americans. A real class act," stated Stephen Soldz of Psychologists for Social Responsibility and Director, Center for Research, Evaluation, and Program Development Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.
Wednesday, Partnership for Civil Justice (PCJ) released a statement about the assault on McGovern and asked that it be posted on Facebook.
According to PCJ, McGovern "was assaulted grabbed from the audience in plain view of her by police and an unidentified official in plain clothes, brutalized and left bleeding in jail."
Clinton never paused speaking according to PCJ.
"When Secretary Clinton began her speech, Mr. McGovern remained standing silently in the audience and turned his back. Mr. McGovern, a veteran Army officer who also worked as a C.I.A. analyst for 27 years, was wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt.
"Blind-sided by security officers who pounced upon him, Mr. McGovern remarked, as he was hauled out the door, "So this is America?" Mr. McGovern is covered with bruises, lacerations and contusions inflicted in the assault.
"Mr. McGovern is being represented by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF). "It is the ultimate definition of lip service that Secretary of State Clinton would be trumpeting the U.S. government's supposed concerns for free speech rights and this man would be simultaneously brutalized and arrested for engaging in a peaceful act of dissent at her speech," stated attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the PCJF.
Mr. McGovern works for Tell the Word publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Mike Ferner, a Vietnam-era veteran, told Democracy Now! that he was arrested at the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center in Chicago for wearing a Veterans for Peace T-Shirt
Vets for Peace t-shirts are available at: https://www.vfpstore.org/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=7
Comments
If now, as the incident at the Clinton speech shows, you can get arrested for wearing a Veterans For Peace t-shirt, It'll make me twice as proud to wear mine as often as possible! I'll also bet that Dupre' is the only writer who covered this atrocity.
RT @rationalrevo
Peace activist beaten and jailed at Humans Rights talk given by Hillary Clinton while she watched : http://exm.nr/e9BYOE
another blow to the lady who would be king? what is wrong here? this person has no credibility any more zilch. (H. Clinton) ! first the state dept. is ordering its employees to collect biometrics of foreign diplomats , in effect spying now this.
Also see: "Clinton: 'It certainly did not want the world to watch' nor does she (video) http://exm.nr/i9rX6A
Did anyone besides me note that McGovern was treated for lymphoma, a condition which has the lasting effect of susceptibility to bruises? Anyone attempting to lift McGovern by his arms, regardless of how carefully, would have wound up bruising him. Based on this, and McGovern's history, I get the sense that he planned this, bruises and all.
http://healthfreedoms.org/2009/07/02/ray-mcgovern-on-illness-and-health/
You miss the point brilliant one.
Riii-ight, how canny he was to get lymphoma so he could utilize his bruise-easiness for causes he likes. Or, for the non-pussbrains in the audience, he is bravely fighting for good despite his illness. And we haven't seen any pictures posted yet of his bruises now have we?
American govt. is a revolting and disgusting cesspool of hypocrisy.
Got something to say?
Examiner.com is looking for writers, photographers, and videographers to join the fastest growing group of local insiders. If you are interested in growing your online rep apply to be an Examiner today!