By Linda Winsh -Bolard
Shall we participate in civil protests? Ask for changes? Protest the war? Ask for a new union? Strike? Have clean election? Are we allowed to change legal procedures that govern our lives from far away?
Supreme Court decided that protest supporting changes that would involve legal change might deserve severe frown from the law.
The Supreme Court had just decided that humanitarian help to the Kurds oppressed by our ally, Turkey, is a terrorist act.
In finely tuned misunderstanding of the history of their own country, the justices decided that the Kurds, who are seeking to establish autonomy, are terrorists because their actions might be unlawful and violent acts against Turkey. The Kurds want to change the law to allow them to become autonomous part of Turkey. I expect the justices would have hanged George Washington (there was Guantanamo then) because he, in the name of independence, committed some violent acts against our mother country, the Great Britain.
I don't think that the justices are able to perceive how ironic their reasoning is.
I am sure, they view themselves as vastly superior to those Kurds and therefore entitled to freedom and independence as well as life long secure, taxpayer's paid post; privileges reserved for their equals. I suspect that the rest of us do not qualify for the same treatment in the justice's eyes...
