Finger Lakes For Peace
For Immediate Release
August 17, 2008
Activists to Appeal Convictions in Kuhl Protest.
Arguments to begin Tuesday August 19th at 1:00 PM

Danny Burns, Mark Scibilia-Carver, Ellen Grady, Todd Saddler, and Chris Tate are scheduled to appear in Stueben County Court at 1:00 PM this Tuesday August 19th with their attorney Ray Schlather, concerning the appeal of last years conviction for Misdemeanor Tresspass.
Background:

On Monday August 6, 2007 Danny Burns, Mark Carver, Ellen Grady, Todd Saddler and Chris Tate "occupied" the Bath, NY office of Congressman Randy Kuhl, a Republican and ardent and unrelenting supporter of President Bush and the "war on terror." The aforementioned quintet delivered approximately three thousand petitions to Congressman Kuhl's office, petitions asking him to make a public declaration that he would not vote for any additional funding for the war in Iraq. The activists had hoped to dialogue with the Congressman in person and waited in his office for over five hours. At the end of the business day Kuhl's office manager requested that the five leave the premises but they declined citing the Constitution, International law, and a moral obligation to stay and address this issue with the Congressman. The Bath police were summoned and lost little time before arresting the activists and charging them with a misdemeanor count of criminal trespass.

The Nuremburg Tribunal defined crimes against the peace as “planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements, or assurances” and also declared that citizens of a country which commits these crimes can be culpable. The doctrine of preventative war was rejected at Nuremburg. - Ellen Grady

We have to bring the troops home, provide for their physical and mental health care, and pay reparations to the people of Iraq. -Todd Saddler

This overly aggressive prosecution and conviction is a local characterization of systemic problems that radiate from the very top of our corrupted judicial system, and therefore it warrants appeal. Randy Kuhl continues to walk lock-step with the Bush Cheney Neo-cons who have ruined this great country. The winds of change are howling up Buell Street all the way from D.C.. - Chris Tate

Who: Finger Lakes For Peace
What: Appeal in Steuben County Court
When: Tuesday August 19, 2008 1:00 PM

Where: Stuben County Courthouse 3 E. Pultney Square, Bath

Contact: Chris Tate 607 351-3768 or Peter De Mott 607 279-8303

www.FingerLakesForPeace.org