Yelling in the Visitors Gallery in Congress = Night in Jail
The story, from AfterDowningStreet.org:
Mike Ferner was found guilty today in District of Columbia Superior Court. He has just been sentenced.
Ferner was originally sentenced to 5 days incarceration suspended and 6 months unsupervised probation including a $100 fine and $50 to the victims compensation fund.
He told the judge that he would not pay the fine and that his highest civic duty was to protest….. "Today we must speak out against the crimes of our government," Ferner said, according to Joy First who was in court in solidarity with Ferner.
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The judge vacated the sentence and gave him a new sentence of one night in DC jail, First said.
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Ferner, who served as a Navy Hospital Corpsman during the Viet Nam war, was arrested September 20, in the the visitors' gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives when he and another activist stood up and loudly addressed the members of Congress, saying: "Funding the War is Killing Our Troops!"
Ferner was arrested by Capitol Police and charged with disorderly disturbing Congress, a charge that carries a maximum 6 months jail sentence.
Does the "Victims Compensation Fund" cash in this case go to members of Congress who had their little play day interrupted?