Image via WikipeBy Randy Economywww.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
February 4, 2011
6 p.m.
Irvine, CA
Call them the "UCI 11."
What the heck ever happened to "Freedom of Speech" in The OC?
This is amazing news. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackaukas is bringing misdemeanor charges against eleven young University of Irvine and UC Riverside co-eds for disrupting a speech of a visiting Diplomat from Israel on a "taxpayer" owned and operated university.
What is even more disturbing to me is that that the "alleged" crime took place one year ago.
Are you kidding me?
Incredible but true.
What ever happened to Freedom of Speech, or Freedom to Assemble? What a massive waste of taxpayer resources. Is this being held up as a "high profile" case because of the recent acts in Egypt? How much money is it going to cost YOU and I to prosecute this case from one year ago? How many hours of professional "legal" time has been dedicated to this so-called "crime." Get a grip.
I hope the ACLU is paying attention. You lost me on this one Tony. What do you think? Hit my comment section below.
From the OC DA Media Office
Friday, February 4, 2011SANTA ANA – The Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) has charged 11 defendants with conspiring to disrupt a meeting and speech by the Israeli Ambassador to the United States at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Each defendant is charged with one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to disturb a meeting and one misdemeanor count of the disturbance of a meeting. If convicted, they each face a sentence ranging from probation with community service of fines up to six months in jail. They are scheduled to be arraigned on the charges March 11, 2011, at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana. The time and Department are to be determined.
The defendants are:
- Mohamed Mohy-Eldeen Abdelgany, 23
- Khalid Gahgat Akari, 19
- Aslam Abbasi Akhtar, 23
- Joseph Tamim Haider, 23
- Taher Mutaz Herzallah, 21
- Hakim Nasreddine Kebir, 20
- Shaheen Waleed Nassar, 21
- Mohammad Uns Qureashi, 19
- Ali Mohammad Sayeed, 23
- Osama Ahmen Shabaik, 22
- Asaad Mohamedidris Traina, 19.
The incident (described below) occurred Feb. 8, 2010, on the campus of UCI. Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren (Ambassador Oren) was the featured speaker at a meeting co-sponsored by multiple organizations including Anteaters for Israel, UCI’s School of Law, Department of Political Science, and Center for the Study of Democracy. Approximately 500 to 700 people had assembled for the meeting. Eight of the defendants were students at UCI and Akari, Herzallah, and Nassar were students at University of California, Riverside.
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