Niles. You know freeing slaves was illegal, yet the Underground Railroad existed. Hiding Jews in WWII Germany was illegal. DO the right thing, regardless of the consequences, you'll feel better about yourself.
In this case, the legal system has been completely exhausted... Meanwhile, the kids are suffering. Screw the legality of the thing, storm the place, and the evidence collected in the aftermath will be your vindication. Even if you do time for it... isn't the prevented suffering worth it?
I wish, i really wish, there were programs in the Northern VA / DC area.
Unlike you. I DO condone any action ending the existence of such facilities. Unlike you, i am unafraid to say it publicly. I don't give a good god damn about "terror", or any other legislation. I do what I believe is right.
You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.
I know better than to fuck around with the anti terror laws and end up with no habeas corpus rights and in GITMO, Psy.
I also don't want to drag ginger into anything like that.
If you wanna hang your balls out like that, more power to you. But the farthest I will support publically is going to be civil disobedience, and I'd rather do it right, without breaking any laws, and without potentially fucking up and giving them ammo to use against us.
Overlordd got slapped with THUH LAW over this shit, but he had some help. I don't have ANY except for what the lovely men and women of fornits might offer to me... so unless a lot of rich lurkers feel like stepping up to the plate, uh, wtf do you expect me to say?
Doing nothing is better than majorly fucking up publically, Psy. We have ONE chance to get this into the news without it turning into a propaganda victory for these fuckwads.
I would argue, that with TB, and many other places, doing anything is better than doing nothing. Any and all publicity to bring such places into the spotlight is a good thing. I am sorry but i aggree with frenchie. Storm the place and let the feds sort it out. I'm not saying to kill anybody. I'm just saying (like frenchie) to storm the place and set the kids loose.
And as far as anti-terrorism legislation goes, you have nothing at all to fear if you aren't Muslim. (at the moment at least) Sad but true. Also, TB isn't on US soil.
Go listen to some Dead Prez. They openly talk about, and endorse, assassinations of public leaders and overthrowing the US government. They aren't in jail. It's protected speech. Know your rights.
Also. Ginger is not legally liable for anything people say on this board. Period.
If you wanna do it, DO IT RIGHT. Go work for a program and report them for shit you see personally, or stage a legal protest.
And what would a legal protest do? Annoy them mildly? Pfft. And how can civil disobedience be used in this situation?
Fucking hell. Invite the media to the party. Have them interview the kids before anybody else gets a chance to. While you're breaking the kids out, loot the file-cabinet and hand the information to the press (telling them to make copies quickly). Then watch the media shitstorm... Those kids are visably mistreated (bruised, malnourished, etc...). It's a photo-journalist's dream.
Let Ken Kay prosecute after that... He wont. I'll tell you why. Because he can deny any knowledge of what was going on at TB and save his reputation (and the rest of his schools). He can blame it all on the local administration who "betrayed his trust". He's done it before. Did you see the Montana PBS documentary?
And see what the parents say when they see their kids like that. See how many lawsuits, criminal prosecutions, etc. stack up after that.