Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Dear all, Here's a sample of what's going on abroad. Interesting. X >Date:         Sat, 3 Nov 2001 02:19:51 -0000 >From: =?iso-8859-2?B?SmFuIMh1bO1r?= <jcu2@CABLEOL.CO.UK> >Subject:      The Czech prosecute political views >To: SEELANGS@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > >Some of you might find it interesting how the Czech authorities are >criminalising verbal "approval" of the US terrorist attacks There are a >number of cases in the Czech Rep. where people have been charged with the >"crime" of "approving of a criminal offence", although the Czech Bill of >Rights guarantees freedom of speech. > > >X >Dept of Slavonic Studies >University of Glasgow > >2nd November, 2001 >Czech internet daily Britske listy reporter Tomas Pecina has now received a >summons for a police interrogation in connection with his verbal "approval >of the US attacks". > >The document is here, in Czech: > >http://www.blisty.cz/fax.php?id=97 > >When the Czech police started prosecuting a right wing extremist Jan Kopal >for saying at a public rally in the northern city of Most on 15th September >2001 that the terrorist attacks served the US right becase it had for years >practices terrorism abroad, including the bombing of Serbia in 1999. Pecina >said that it is outrageous to prosecute people for expressing a view. In >support of the principle of freedom of speech, he has said that he >demonstratively also approves of the terrorist attacks. > >The District Prosecutor´s Office for Prague 2 has recently instructed the >Czech police to start investigating this "criminal case" and the Czech >Police has now invited Pecina for questioning, although it is obvious from >the documentation that Pecina´s statement is a demonstrative gesture, in >support of freedom of speeech > >In response to the summons, Pecina has sent an official complaint against >the police, pointing out that the Czech Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of >speech and so people cannot be criminalised for expressing a view. > >Britske listy as published the protocol of of the extremist Jan Kopal´s >questioning by the police regarding this "verbal criminal offence". The >interview took place last week and the questions "What did you mean by >saying that..."  "Were you aware that TV cameras were present...?" were >rather reminiscent of pre-1989 communist police questions asked  of >interrogated dissidents. > >X >University of Glasgow > > > >27th Oct. 2001: > >Czech police investigates grafitti for a possible criminal offence > >In the south eastern town of Zlin, the locals have alerted the police to >some grafitti on a city wall, an official space for making grafitti. A >picture of a man with what looks like a turban has recently appeared there, >with a sign "Solidarity with the people of Afghanistan!" The police is >trying to analyse whether it is a picture of Jimi Hendrix or of Osama bin >Laden. If they conclude that it is bin Laden, they will initiate criminal >proceedings against the authors of the picutre. See this article (the >picture in question is included). > >The picture of the graffiti is here: >http://www.flashnews.cz/index.php3?iid=10600&detailclanku=43041 > >X > >CZECH PROSECUTORS: APPROVING OF THE ACTS OF TERROR IN THE US IS A CRIMINAL >OFFENCE > >The Czech News Agency, 2nd October, 2001: > >Approval of the recent terrorist acts against the United States can be >qualified as a criminal offence. But when investigating these cases, >prosecutors will have sensitively to look for a borderline between freedom >of speech and a criminal act. Representatives of the Regional, Higher >Prosecutor´s Offices and the General Prosecutor´s Office agreed on this in >Brno today, > >"We are all in agreement that the Criminal Code makes it possible to >prosecute culprits [verbally approving of the terrorist attacks in the US] >under several sections," said Lumir Crha, the Deputy of the Prosecutor >General. > >Crha said that this criminal activity is "a new thing in the Czech >Republic". The aim of prosecuting the autors of the remarks [approving of >terrorist acts] is not, in Crha´s view, suppression of freedom of speech. >"It is necessary to realise that it is only possible to use one´s freedom of >speech until the moment when a criminal offence is being committed," said >Crha. He said that it is necessary to distinguish between "constructive >criticism" of the United States and the approval of the attacks. > >Czech Justice Secretary Jaromir Bures has recently said that statements made >by the ultra right-wing Chairman of the National Social Block, Jan Kopal, >approving of the terrorist attacks can be classified as a criminal offence >of "supporting terrorism". > > > >"Idnes", 1st October 2001: > >http://zpravy.idnes.cz/domaci.asp?r=domaci&c=A011001_145734_domaci_nad&t=A0 1 > >LEAFLETS APPROVING OF TERORISM WERE FOUND IN THE POST OFFICE! > >Liberec, Northern Bohemia: Three leaflets whose author approves of the >terrorist attacks against the USA, were discovered by employees of the Post >Office in Liberec amongst letters. The Post Office Employees immediately >handed these leaflets to the police. "They were normal sheets of paper with >capital letters on them, written with a felt tip pen," said the Liberec >police spokesperson Vlasta Suchankova. "We have sent the leaflets to the >Prague criminological institute for analysis." > >The leaflets literally [sic] said: "George Bush = a fundamentalist and >creator of a war hysteria! The United States themselves are to blame for >this! Innocent people have died! The US have armed the terrorists >themselves! Let the US start with criticism in their own back yard! The >regime in the Czech Republic wishes to put into prison people who disagree >with US politics. People, beware of such a regime! It is afraid of the >truth! Such a regime should end. The Fourth Resistance Movement." > >Anyone could have thrown these leaflets into a letterbox, said the police >spokeswoman. They were not in sealed envelopes. > >Two days after the attacks against the United States someone stuck a poster >on the door of the [conservative] MP Jiri Drda (ODS). The poster appealed >for support for bin Laden. "The United States is responsible for the >suffering of the Third World and so our first act was directed against the >US - there will be further acts, aimed against all the countries of the >Euroatlantic civilisation," the poster said. > >The Prague Institute of Criminology has now produced a report which says >that it might be possible to ascertain on what equipment the poster had been >manufactured. :) > > > >The Czech News Agency, 2nd October, 2001: > > > >http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/view-id.php4?id=20011002E00706&tbl=zpravy&kostra= l >etáky > >FURTHER LEAFLETS IN LIBEREC > >Further three handwritten leaflets approving the terrorist attack against >the United States appeared in Liberec. The police spokesperson Vlasta >Suchankova said that the police sent them to Usti nad Labem for a >criminological and graphological anaysis. > > > >24th September, 2001: > > >THE CZECHS HAVE CHARGED INDIVIDUALS WHO APPROVE OF THE TERRORIST ACTS IN THE >US > > >Home Secretary Stanislav Gross told the media that the police will be >prosecuting Jan Kopal and other right wing radicals for saying that the >United States has been justifiably attacked by  terrorists. These >individuals are to be prosecuted on the basis of Article 165 of the Penal >Code: (He who publicly approves of a criminal offence or who publicly >praises a perpetrator of a criminal offence will be punished by imprisonment >of up to one year.) > >Main Evening News, Czech TV, Wednesday 19th September: > >"Jan Kopal, Chairman of the extreme right wing National Social Bloc has been >charged by the prosecutor in the city of Most for approving of a criminal >offence. If found guilty, Kopal can be imprisoned for a year. During a >demonstration which took place on Saturday 15th Septemer, Kopal said: "A >country like the United States which committed so much evil in the past, >which essentially has been supporting international terrorism and >participated in missions like Yugoslavia where innocent civilians were being >murdered does not deserve anything else but such an attack." He also said >that Osama bin Laden should become an example for Czech children. The Czech >government is preparing measures against individuals who approve of the >terrorist attacks against the United States." > >Nova TV, Main Evening News, Wednesday 19th September: > >"Rather serious were the statements made by Jan Kopal, Chairman of the >National Social Block, who said of the United States at the weekend that a >country which has supported international terrorism deserves such a >terrorist attack. Kopal has now been charged. The police now warns >especially young people that they should not be chanting slogans, especially >at football matches, approving of the attack against the United States. Such >behaviour will be harshly punished." > >Czech Television, Main Evening News Thursday 20th September: > >"The police has arrested two 18-year old youths who chanted slogans >celebrating the terrorist attacks against the US at Hlavateho Street in >Prague 4 on Wednesday night. One of the youths has hit a policemen on the >shoulder. The youths have been charged with hooliganism and with assaulting >public officials. If found guilty, they can be sentenced to three years´ >imprisonment." > >Britske listy, 21st September 2001: > >Tomas Pecina: It is rather doubtful how the Czech authorities wish to >prosecute this "crime of approving a criminal offence" since according to >Articles 17-20 of the Penal Code it is impossible to use Czech law to judge >the criminality or otherwise of  acts committed by foreign nationals on >foreign territory. It is not possible to use another country´s Code of Law, >because thus for instance expressing support for imprisoned Cuban dissidens >would be an offence of "approving of a criminal act". > >Tomas Pecina: Since I am of the opinion that human rights are indivisible, I >cannot react otherwise but in the sense of Kennedy´s statement "Ich bin ein >Berliner". I avail myself of my right of freedom of speech, guaranteed by >Article 17 of the Czech Bill of Rights and Freedoms and I hereby proclaim >that I approve of the terrorist attack, carried out on 11th September 2001 >against the United States.I wish to be prosecuted in the same way as Jan >Kopal. > >A collaborator of Britske listy Helena Svatosova will submit a official >complaint against Tomas Pecina to the authorities, proposing that he be >prosecuted for his statement. > >Although we naturally disapprove of Mr. Kopal´s comments, we feel that he >must not be prosecuted for merely expressing his views and are ready to >defend the democratic right of freedom of speech in the interests of >democracy in the Czech Republic. It is intolerable to think that people >should be again afraid to express their views for fear of criminal >prosecution. > >Under Czech law and in the current atmosphere in the Czech Republic, Pecina >will probably be found guilty. > >X > > > > > > >Mlada fronta Dnes, 11th August, 2001: > >http://www.mfdnes.cz/mfdomov.asp?c=186mfdomov_2_ > >"A man could be sent to prison for praising nationalisation. > >Sumperk. - The District Investigator´s Office in Sumperk will hand over to >the State Prosecutor the case of 23-year old communist activist David Pecha. >Pecha is being charged for promoting a movement aiming to suppress >citizens´rights and freedoms, for slander and for spreading alarmist views. >In the Pochoden (Torch) periodical, Pecha sang the praises of communism and >called for the return of the old order, even by means of a military >struggle. "On Monday, the State Prosecutor will have the file with the >proposal to prosecute Pecha on his desk," said investigator Vlastimil Flasar >yesterday. > >Since November 1989, this has been the first case where the authorities are >prosecuting a left-wing extremist for promoting communism. So far, the >police has been using the article of the Criminal Code, which outlaws the >promotion of non-democratic movements only to prosecute  skinheads who have >praised Hitler and fascism. If found guilty, Pecha could be sentenced to up >to eight years´ imprisonment. Among other things, Pecha has said in the >Pochoden newspaper and on the internet that Czech soldiers who disobey >orders could be, under state of war, shot for insubordination, according to >NATO guidelines. Pìcha has also said that about a dozen leading Czech >politicians are criminals and traitors." > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >---- > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - >---- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.281 / Virus Database: 149 - Release Date: 18.9.2001 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Use your web browser to search the archives, control your subscription >  options, and more.  Visit and bookmark the SEELANGS Web Interface at: > http://members.home.net/lists/seelangs/ >------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ discuss@madpeace.org mailing list http://lists.OpenSoftwareServices.com/mailman/listinfo/madpeace-discuss September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Friday, November 02, 2001 11:58 PM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients announce@madpeace.org September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. [MAPC-discuss] That democracy thing is really working out Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [MAPC-discuss] That democracy thing is really working out 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. 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