What Did You Do in the War, Grandma?

[dogday]

No ageism is intended, but we're willing to lay heavy odds that it has been a long while since the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, found someone older than he is to take to court.

Bear in mind that Mr. Morgenthau is 86. He has held his job for so long that it sometimes feels as if he began before they invented Ovaltine. How many 90-year-old drug dealers or mob hit men cross his path?

Yesterday, things changed. The district attorney's office pursued a criminal case against a band of women, some of them old enough to call Mr. Morgenthau "sonny."

Not that Marie Runyon, 91, is what you'd call a hardened criminal. Nor is Molly Klopot, 87, nor Lillian Rydell, 86. Nor, for that matter, are any of 15 other women — a few of them practically kids, no older than 61 or 62 — who went on trial yesterday in Manhattan Criminal Court, charged with disorderly conduct.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0421-07.htm

Yep, lets lock up these dangerous grandmas

[MadMaddie]

1. Go Grannies Go!! The prosecuter apparantly doesn't

have enough real criminals...oh say like terrorist to track down and prosecute.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Darn right, if they aren't made an example of

next thing you know they'll be wearing funny hats and singing anti-war songs at peace demos. What will we tell the children?

[Oversea Visitor]

5. Maybe say

Grannies break law got punish

Maybe say Grannies spoke up got punish but try safe 55,000 more Americans from being kill

Maybe Iraq worst then Vietnam more than 58,000 killed
Maybe Iraq like Vietnam
Maybe Iraq not like Vietnam

Stay course see answer
Who can say what will be
Only thing what should be

But why fight war base on lies
Why fight illegal war
Why send children to die for war that need not be

Dont American has the right to stop it
This case complex
If they show war illegal
Then they got right to do protest.

But law only look at small picture
This one must look at BIG PICTURE
If only small picture Grannies guilty but problems not solve
If big picture Grannies not guilty
And problems being work on to be solve

But who can say what will be
Need best lawyers to fight

[dogday]

6. I think these wise old women are on to something

I applaud with hands and feet their efforts.. It will be because of people like these old gals, which will enable the end to this war .... Big Kudos!!!!

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Tough job for the judge

Damn hard haha.

Good job grannies

[AnnInLa]

4. Cool! the "return of the pink, er, gray panthers"

Whatever happened to the gray panthers anyway?

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. Grannies rock. n/t

[dogday]

8. The oldest is 91

at 91, I can only hope I can be a granny protesting......