Howard Olson, wrote:

>I think the point was that you should be WILLING to be
>arrested for cividl disobedience not that one OUGHT to be arrested. It is
>clearly persxecution if you are arrested for demonstrating against the
>mass-murder of war.

Right on the first point, not the second. Substitute "abortion" for "war"
and see if you still agree. Are pro-life protestors being "persecuted"
when they are arrested for unlawfully blocking clinic entrances? Of
course not. (They of course claim otherwise, which is nonsense.) If you
mean arrests in the context of an otherwise lawful protest, that's
different. But NC's arrest (the only one I am aware of) was a part of
civil disobedience. Arrest under those circumstances is be definition
lawful, and hence not persecutory.


Best,

Tresy