{"id":46131,"date":"2024-02-19T13:10:46","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=46131"},"modified":"2024-02-19T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T21:10:46","slug":"nancy-pelosi-is-pressing-charges-against-peace-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/19\/nancy-pelosi-is-pressing-charges-against-peace-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi Is Pressing Charges Against Peace Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reprinted from WorldBeyondWar<\/a> with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi is having peace activists charged with felonies for nonviolent activities in front of her San Francisco home, and yet not having them investigated for, much less charged with what she has publicly accused them of, namely working for both Russia and China.<\/p>\n

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Heather Phipps is being represented in court by civil rights attorney Walter Riley. She allegedly splashed washable red paint on Pelosi\u2019s garage door last week. A few drops of the paint accidentally got on a policeman\u2019s uniform. The Pelosis are claiming that the damage to their garage door exceeds $400, and thus Heather committed a felony. The drops of paint on the policeman\u2019s uniform are being used to also charge her with battery. Meanwhile Cynthia Papermaster, coordinator for CODEPINK in the Bay Area, is being charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly leaving red handprints on the garage door. The washable paint was completely washed off by evening.<\/p>\n

Papermaster commented: \u201cPelosi takes $600,000 from the Israeli lobby and refuses to call for a ceasefire. We wonder \u2014 is she working for us, her constituents, or is she doing Netanyahu\u2019s and Israel\u2019s bidding? While Pelosi is funding a genocide in Gaza with our tax dollars that\u2019s killing and starving thousands of children, she has time for petty vendettas against committed peace advocates. I fasted for Gaza for 20 days, taking only liquids amounting to 200 calories or less per day, which is what innocent children in Gaza are receiving if they can even find food to eat. There is a genocide happening before our eyes, and Pelosi is good with funding it with our tax dollars. So I\u2019m now committed to ousting Pelosi from her undeserved position as San Francisco\u2019s member of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cNearly 80% of Democrats want a ceasefire. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a ceasefire resolution by a vote of 8 to 3 with thousands of residents showing up at City Hall to support the resolution. Pelosi is either completely unaware of her constituents\u2019 needs, or she is deliberately ignoring them, which is the more likely explanation. Her Federal Building office has been closed for years. Constituents are prevented from meeting with her staff or even entering the Federal Building. She doesn\u2019t hold town meetings like other Representatives. She has walled herself off from the people she is supposed to represent. She continually votes against the interests of her constituents who fervently wish for her to call for a ceasefire and to stop funding the Israeli genocide in Gaza with our tax dollars. She is a failure as San Francisco\u2019s member of Congress and she needs to step down and be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n