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Recommend Rabbi Arthur Waskow - CONVICTED in Court -- and PRAISED by the Judge! (Email)

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December 15, 2011

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Yesterday I stood trial in Washington DC Superior Court for the pray-in last July  in which I joined with ten other religious folk in the Capitol Rotunda, seeking to focus Congress on the need to pass a budget responsive to needs of the poor, the disemployed, the homeless. (I was alone for trial yesterday because my cancer and its treatment had made it physically impossible for me to be with the other ten when they stood trial.) 

 I decided against the "deferred prosecution/ probation" arrangement offered by the prosecution partly because it would have required taking 3 days away from sacred Shalom Center work, coming from Philadelphia to DC 3 separate times to pee into a test tube to be tested for drug use -- and much more because it would have required me to promise not to get arrested in the next months. (I may very well choose to risk arrest again as the movements for social / political/ religious transformation go forward.)

So I pleaded guilty to "disrupting traffic in the US Capitol," a violation of DC law. What I told the judge (Harold Cushenberry ) in my pre-sentencing statement was --


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