Protests are normally legal so long as the protest is peaceful. This protest however isn’t planning to be peaceful, in fact it’s kidnapping.

This subversive group is intending to storm a federal property and hold recuiters captive.

“This March 19 hundreds of cities across the U.S. will hold events to mark the anniversary of the war in Iraq and remember the tragic toll the world has and continues to pay; nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers killed, 30,000 wounded, at least 100,000 Iraqis killed, four million displaced, and nearly a trillion dollars squandered.

While there will be events in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, members of Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) feel it is important that there be a local event connected to our community’s long-standing, successful efforts to use education and action to oppose the war and undermine the militarism that leads to perpetual war(s).

On Wednesday, March 19, POG will be holding a torch-lit march to a modern day castle of abominations‚Äîour local military recruiting station. If the station remains open, we intend to evict it and everything inside of it, occupy the location, and transform it into something useful for the community. We’ll also be bringing a movable cage in which to confine military recruiters until they no longer pose a danger to our friends and neighbors. Of course, the station may be closed and recruiters may flee or hide behind the police apparatus that enables the war to continue. That is often the case, and we’ve seen in the past the overwhelming resources the state directs against these anniversary events because of their importance as a symbol of dissent. We believe in acting effectively, in confronting the war, at times and places of our choosing. When the state brings the resources necessary to suppress direct action against the war, it makes sense to hold a symbolic protest, and we still consider that a success, as it exposes the reality that it is ultimately on the local level that our countries war policy will be decided.”

Muling this over with an FBI agent, who thanked me for the information, they plan on meeting the “Group”, most likely before the protest occurs, or at the scene. Typical charges:

• Conspiring to impede an officer of the United States.

• Injuring and damaging government property and or personnel.

• Entering and damaging a military station for unlawful purposes.

For good measure unlawful imprisonment (carries life sentence in some cases).

Nevertheless they will not get the opportunity to “occupy” anything except a jail cell. I suggested GITMO.

h/t LGF Also MM with more updates.