14-02-17 ארה"ב: חופש הדיבור.ההגפנה? // Freedom of Speech in the Untied States?

===ארה"ב: חופש הדיבור.ההגפנה? מקרה דומה לדפני ליף בשיקאגו - רק יותר אלים!===

בעיתונים היום אומרים שבא כוח המדינה טוען בבג"ץ שבישראל אין "חופש הדיבור כמו בארה"ב".

להלן קישור למאמר על משטפט המתנהל נגד פעילה במאהל שיקאגו על "תקיפת שוטר". היא עלולה להישפט למאסר של עד ל-7 שנים. שיקאגו, תחת חביב התקשורת כאן, עימואל ראם, הפכה לסמל של גזל העניים לטובת העשירים, ומרכז למחאה חברתית.

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Apparently written by an American reporter. jz

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Cecily McMillan's Occupy Trial Is a Huge Test of US Civil Liberties. Will They Survive?

For years, comparing American freedom to Russian tyranny seemed like an exaggeration. But maybe we're not so different after all.

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Photo Credit: David Shankbone

February 17, 2014  |  

The US constitution's Bill of Rights is envied by much of the English-speaking world, even by people otherwise not enthralled by The American Way Of Life. Its fundamental liberties – freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom from warrantless search – are a mighty bulwark against overweening state power, to be sure.

But what are these rights actually worth in the United States these days?

Ask Cecily McMillan, a 25-year-old student and activist who was  arrested two years ago during an Occupy Wall Street demonstration in Manhattan. Seized by  police, she was beaten black and blue on her ribs and arms until she went into a seizure. When she felt her right breast grabbed from behind, McMillan instinctively threw an elbow, catching a cop under the eye, and that is why she is  being prosecuted for assaulting a police officer, a class D felony with a possible seven-year prison term. Her trial began this week.

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http://www.alternet.org/cecily-mcmillans-occupy-trial-huge-test-us-civil-liberties-will-they-survive?akid=11516.1117888.yFOTCU&rd=1&src=newsletter959713&t=6