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\n to appear in the crosshairs of John Ashcroft in his ongoing campaign
\n to strike fear in the hearts of civil libertarians and eco-weenies everywhere is John Passacantando, executive director
\n of Greenpeace in the United States. 15 months after two Greenpeace
\n activists spent a weekend in jail for boarding a cargo ship they said
\n was loaded with illegal mahogony, the Dept. of Justice has indicted
\n the ORGANIZATION itself for the same incident, using a 1890’s law enacted
\n to thwart "sailor-mongers" who would board ships with liquor, drugs
\n and loose women to lure about-to-be-paid sailors to disreputable boarding
\n houses.<\/p>\n
"The heart of Greenpeace’s mission," prosecutors wrote, "is
\n the violation of the law." <\/p>\n
For his part, Passacantando,
\n whose last name loosely means, if my Spanish serves me, "Goes-around-singing",
\n stays cool. "The federal government
\n is using 9\/11 to come down harder on an action like this, which was a
\n good and dignified and peaceful action." <\/p>\n
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