The scourge of her conviction
by Kristen Lombardi
Village Voice
02/01/05
Two days before Christmas, Elena Sassower walked out of the Washington, DC, jail where she'd just finished serving a sentence that should frighten anyone inclined to protest in the halls of power. For reading a 24-word request to testify at a judicial appointment hearing on Capitol Hill, an act that qualified as 'disruption of Congress,' Sassower was hit with six months' incarceration -- the maximum allowed by law. Despite the grave constitutional implications of her case, not one of the dozen civil rights organizations she'd asked for help came to her assistance: not the ACLU, not Public Citizen, not People for the American Way, not Common Cause. Her real crime, it seems, was her penchant for being a pest...
http://villagevoice.com/news/0505,lombardi,60660,6.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Village Voice
02/01/05
Two days before Christmas, Elena Sassower walked out of the Washington, DC, jail where she'd just finished serving a sentence that should frighten anyone inclined to protest in the halls of power. For reading a 24-word request to testify at a judicial appointment hearing on Capitol Hill, an act that qualified as 'disruption of Congress,' Sassower was hit with six months' incarceration -- the maximum allowed by law. Despite the grave constitutional implications of her case, not one of the dozen civil rights organizations she'd asked for help came to her assistance: not the ACLU, not Public Citizen, not People for the American Way, not Common Cause. Her real crime, it seems, was her penchant for being a pest...
http://villagevoice.com/news/0505,lombardi,60660,6.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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