3 December 2003

By Kathy Kelly

In a recent article, “Hogtied and Abused at Fort Benning,” I described how US Military Police treated me following an arrest for peacefully entering the Fort Benning military base. I was part of a nonviolent protest, held annually for the past 13 years, calling for an end to Fort Benning’s training of Latin American soldiers at an institution called WHISC (Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation).* The article, posted on the School of the Americas Watch website and on our website, tells about how US Military Police responded when I quietly refused to continue cooperating with an extremely aggressive search procedure. I was pushed to the floor, hogtied, kneed while begging for relief because I couldn’t breathe, hauled while still hogtied to the next “stations,” and threatened with pepper spray if I didn’t cooperate when they uncuffed me for fingerprinting.

2 December 2003

The Wheels of Justice Bus Tour has been infiltrated by George Shrub the singing CIA agent. Shrub will join the tour for the month of December, spinning his musical insurgency and edutaining audiences across north/central California. Tune in and beware…see and listen to George at www.davelippman.com before homeland security comes knocking on your door!