Comments | ontd_political: 'Irvine 11' jury finds all 10 students guilty

arabgirl in ontd_political

'Irvine 11' jury finds all 10 students guilty

Sep 23, 2011 14:07

After more than two days of deliberation, an Orange County jury on Friday found 10 Muslim students guilty of two misdemeanors to conspire and then disrupt a February 2010 speech at UC Irvine last year by the Israeli ambassador to the United States.

( There was crying as the verdict was read in Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson’s courtroom. The students showed no visible emotion, although they hugged each afterward. Some also stormed out. )

palestine, free speech, islam, israel, first amendment, arabs, islamophobia

Comments 14

bignoor September 23 2011, 22:33:17 UTC

No comments on this?! Really??

I was horrified when I found out, to think you can't speak freely about Israel without having to go to court for it :(

sesmo September 23 2011, 22:53:23 UTC

I was horrified when I found out, to think you can't freely disrupt a speech in a deliberate manner and refuse to leave an assembly without having to go to court for it. :(

Fixed that for you.

bignoor September 23 2011, 22:58:19 UTC

Have you seen the video? They said what they came to say and then left with their hands in the air followed by police. Check your facts.

nekokonneko September 23 2011, 23:45:22 UTC

you really seem to value being able to say whatever you want regardless of context

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seasontoseason September 23 2011, 22:34:16 UTC

yeah, i've heard the school essentially handed them over as sacrificial lambs (on the order of, "let's make this whole commotion stop as quickly as possible by having the cops arrest people, take them away, and just END it") ... it sounds terrible. I hear the administration there is very conservative.

doverz September 23 2011, 22:44:16 UTC

Wow, that really is horrible.

lightbird777 September 24 2011, 00:02:31 UTC

This is such fucking bullshit.

redstar826 September 24 2011, 02:19:46 UTC

This should have never been a criminal issue. If I recall correctly, they shouted some stuff and left on their own (as opposed to being forcibly removed by security). I could see their school giving them a warning about disrupting university sponsored events, but that should have been the end of it.