ASRWU - part eleven

It seems I may have been a bit quick to judge Boston as the cosmopolitan, liberal city I’d initially thought it to be. I’m referring, of course, to the recent arrest of Joseph Previtera, a 21 year-old Boston student who donned a black hood and shawl and ascended a milk crate, outside a military recruitment office to protest at the Abu Ghraib abuse.

It was clear from the dangling stereo wires attached to each arm that he was dressed as the Iraqi prisoner who was allegedly forced to balance on a cardboard box lest he be electrocuted. He was arrested after an hour and is facing charges more serious than any US soldier is facing for their role in the actual prison abuse in Iraq.

Isn’t it wonderful this “Land of the Free”?