Lori Berenson gets 20 years!

Subject: RE: Lori Berenson gets 20 years!
From: DougR
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 02:50 AM

Well, Sinsull, I for one thought it was a pretty good post! I'm biased, though, I guess.

Subject: RE: Lori Berenson gets 20 years!
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 08:42 AM

Thanks Doug. I stand by mt thoughts. The tone was a little out of line. This from this morning's news. toledo refuses to intervene :
"Berenson's parents said that despite her conviction, their daughter is at peace because she never betrayed her principles.

``She cannot confess to something she did not do, and she cannot repent for something she did not do, and that is what the judges kept goading her to do,'' Rhoda Berenson said.

Her mother sounds like a pretty amazing lady.

Subject: RE: Lori Berenson gets 20 years!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 01:22 PM

She is not innocent. She is playing the United States for a patsy and is waiting for you to bail her out "as a gesture of goodwill."

Lori's own words condemn her.

She met the verdict calmly, standing most of the time as a clerk read the lengthy findings against her for more than three hours. Earlier Wednesday, Berenson spoke in her own defense, telling the three-judge court "I am innocent of the charges against me."

"I've been classified as a terrorist," Berenson said. "I am not a terrorist. I condemn terrorism, and I want to reiterate that."

She said that in Peru, the word "terrorist" has been used so often that the real meaning of the word "is no longer understood." <>

"There has been political violence, and within this political violence there has been on the part of the state, or of the subversives, actions that might be classified as terrorist. It would be important to study this in its proper magnitude and identify those who are responsible. That's for the well-being of the country," she said.

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A native of New York, Berenson was detained by Peruvian security forces November 30, 1995. At the time, she was living with members of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement -- an armed Peruvian organization -- in a Lima suburb.

Berenson claims she was in the country working as a free-lance journalist for unspecified "leftist" publications, and that she never knew her housemates were suspected terrorists. During a bloody raid on the house Berenson had rented, Peruvian security forces found weapons, explosives, and a detailed plan of the Peruvian congress. <>

Subject: RE: Lori Berenson gets 20 years!
From: M.Ted
Date: 26 Jun 01 - 02:38 PM

RobDale,

I am a little vague on what constitutes an admission of guilt there--perhaps you did not post the whole article--

When you post something from a publication(or wire service, such as Associated Press or Reuters), make sure you include the name of the Publication, the date of the publication, the name of the author (if it is by-lined), the headlines, and the copyright notice, if any. And make sure you have copied and posted the entire article!!!!!

When you write your comment, you may of course, pull whatever you want from the original text, but, for credibility sake, people ought to be able to see the whole article.

Don't just post a link, either, because newspapers generally only allow free access for a week or two, and after that, anyone who wants to read the article will have to pay a two or three dollar download fee--

On many occasions, these threads get pulled out later on, and it helps to understand what people are talking about when there is source material in the thread--