Comments on: An Interview with Walt Staton http://www.splintergeneration.com/an-interview-with-walt-staton/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:00:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: suzane http://www.splintergeneration.com/an-interview-with-walt-staton/comment-page-1/#comment-365 suzane Mon, 07 Dec 2009 07:29:09 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=681#comment-365 I don't get it! If "plastic water jugs left on the Refuge is litter" and anyone who leaves them there "could be cited for littering on the Refuge", it's because the authorities don't want the place "littered" and prefer it kept "clean"? and yet the same authorities somehow rather have the Refuge "littered" with the dead bodies of illegal immigrants than mere plastic water jugs? There are numerous laws that have been changed over the course of civilization simply because they don't quite fit with the current time or they don't adequately address the problems at hand. We obviously have a bigger problem here that a citation for littering is not going to fix. Why is it so hard to understand that perhaps this particular "law" or warning is utterly unjust and not fixing the problem? What No More Deaths and Walt Staton are trying to do is simply an act of humanity and any law that gives out citations to stop/persecute an act of humanity is clearly wrong and in need of change! I don’t get it! If “plastic water jugs left on the Refuge is litter” and anyone who leaves them there “could be cited for littering on the Refuge”, it’s because the authorities don’t want the place “littered” and prefer it kept “clean”? and yet the same authorities somehow rather have the Refuge “littered” with the dead bodies of illegal immigrants than mere plastic water jugs?

There are numerous laws that have been changed over the course of civilization simply because they don’t quite fit with the current time or they don’t adequately address the problems at hand. We obviously have a bigger problem here that a citation for littering is not going to fix. Why is it so hard to understand that perhaps this particular “law” or warning is utterly unjust and not fixing the problem?

What No More Deaths and Walt Staton are trying to do is simply an act of humanity and any law that gives out citations to stop/persecute an act of humanity is clearly wrong and in need of change!

]]> By: Seth http://www.splintergeneration.com/an-interview-with-walt-staton/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Seth Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:47:06 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=681#comment-65 Joe, have you ever thought, even for a second, that a judge or a law could be wrong? Morally wrong? Do you really hate "illegal" immigrants that much? That you'd wish them death? That you'd wish those who help them go to jail for breaking an unjust law? Joe, have you ever thought, even for a second, that a judge or a law could be wrong? Morally wrong? Do you really hate “illegal” immigrants that much? That you’d wish them death? That you’d wish those who help them go to jail for breaking an unjust law?

]]> By: Joe http://www.splintergeneration.com/an-interview-with-walt-staton/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Joe Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:56:43 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=681#comment-64 Evidence at trial: A judge had already ruled that plastic water jugs left on the Refuge is litter. No More Deaths had instructions warning that they could be cited for littering on the Refuge. Yet, Walt did it anyways. One down, 13 more to go. Evidence at trial: A judge had already ruled that plastic water jugs left on the Refuge is litter. No More Deaths had instructions warning that they could be cited for littering on the Refuge. Yet, Walt did it anyways. One down, 13 more to go.

]]> By: Community Service « Smart Borders http://www.splintergeneration.com/an-interview-with-walt-staton/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Community Service « Smart Borders Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:40:36 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=681#comment-49 [...] tanks at specific aid stations within the refuge, they stated that the plastic bottles left by Walt Staton of the group No More Deaths endangered wildlife and was unsightly. [New York [...] [...] tanks at specific aid stations within the refuge, they stated that the plastic bottles left by Walt Staton of the group No More Deaths endangered wildlife and was unsightly. [New York [...]

]]> By: Gaby http://www.splintergeneration.com/an-interview-with-walt-staton/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Gaby Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:36:21 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=681#comment-44 There are many things that deserved to be punishable by the law - paying millions of dollars to CEOs that have screwed the rest of the nation, doctors that take incentives from pharmaceutical companies to advertise or prescribe their products, even more closely related is the unjustified killings of unarmed PEOPLE that are trying to cross the border from Mexico (or the racism that occurs once they arrive). Have these Mexicans done anything wrong except trying to give their future generations an opportunity to a better life? I don't know the answer, I can only assume that they are risking their own lives for the freedom they hear rumors about. Walt Staton is not a saint, he's not God, but he's a man with a good head on his shoulders. He understands the obvious, that if we don't look after our own humanity, the ability to have compasion, then we don't deserve to consider ourselves a a reasonable race. Can we be better? Of course. We just need to stop wasting our time convicting innocent people of unrelevant, unjustified, made-up crimes. There are many things that deserved to be punishable by the law - paying millions of dollars to CEOs that have screwed the rest of the nation, doctors that take incentives from pharmaceutical companies to advertise or prescribe their products, even more closely related is the unjustified killings of unarmed PEOPLE that are trying to cross the border from Mexico (or the racism that occurs once they arrive). Have these Mexicans done anything wrong except trying to give their future generations an opportunity to a better life? I don’t know the answer, I can only assume that they are risking their own lives for the freedom they hear rumors about. Walt Staton is not a saint, he’s not God, but he’s a man with a good head on his shoulders. He understands the obvious, that if we don’t look after our own humanity, the ability to have compasion, then we don’t deserve to consider ourselves a a reasonable race. Can we be better? Of course. We just need to stop wasting our time convicting innocent people of unrelevant, unjustified, made-up crimes.

]]> By: An Interview with Walt Staton | Splinter Generation | TicketRetails.Com http://www.splintergeneration.com/an-interview-with-walt-staton/comment-page-1/#comment-33 An Interview with Walt Staton | Splinter Generation | TicketRetails.Com Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:12:54 +0000 http://www.splintergeneration.com/?p=681#comment-33 [...] Read more here: An Interview with Walt Staton | Splinter Generation [...] [...] Read more here: An Interview with Walt Staton | Splinter Generation [...]

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