I'd happily contribute to your Keck-supplementing fund to pursue the records. The more light is shed, the better, both for the prosecutors who were flailing around trying to find out what was going on with the courthouse glass-smashery, and for these two.

This is the same government that will be running your health care starting in 2014. Have fun.

how and where can we donate? Directly to the NLG?

@ 1 and 3: Not to the NLG—the response to the idea has been good and I hope to have a mechanism in place soon. Stay tuned.

You refer to them as "activists". I would call them anarchists or even civil terrorists.

Nobody has the right to destroy the property of others.

If we are to remain a nation under the rule of law, the laws or our nation must apply to each and every one of us. The should have remained in prison for their refusal to comply with the rules pertaining grand jury testimony.

No matter the apparent angst of those who would support the "activists'" ire over corporate profits, their refusal to testify is wrong and in the aggregate is hurtful to all of our citizens who would rely on the law for the protections and the redress for civil and/or criminal acts committed by others.

@5: You may want to review the entire story before you start calling these folks "anarchists or even civil terrorists". The two in question were not even in Seattle on the day the vandalism occurred. They refused to answer questions about other folks political beliefs, and thus ended up in jail for contempt of court. Its not too far of a stretch to think that the only reason they were picked up, questioned, and then held in solitary for two months, was to discourage other people from acting out in such a fashion. Personally, I think that if we have a "government of the people, by the people" that behaves in such a fashion, then a bit more smashing up may be in order.

Excellent. Thanx again to the stranger and Mr. Kiley. BTW, with May Day coming up again there's a lot of chatter about upcoming actions. I'm not an anarchist so can't speak as one, but I find it absolutely deplorable these people were held in an attempt to coerce them to talk about something they may or may not know. Oh, authority lovers, I get it; they must know something...right? But, heh, judging from the quality of police work around here (not all, only the important stuff like defending downtown from a marauding band of "activists") I don't really know anything of the sort. And when the authorities keep screwing things up by not being able to defend downtown Seattle it's an invitation for more. I don't have the answer. I know I'd really rather not see more young people go to jail, but I have a feeling this coming May Day is going to be bad. I hope not. I wish some people would lay low and chill for a while and retool. But whatev.

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#5 is correct, of course. The hipsters love the terrorists, until the terrorists trash their bicycles.

@12: Go back to Milwaukee, moron. You fail at reading comprehension as badly as #5.

These kids are idiots. I mean yes, it was stupid to put them in front of a grand jury...but what does going to jail for refusing to look the jury in the eye and say "I didn't do it and this 'evidence' is lame" going to accomplish?
They easily could have just talked to the judge and the whole thing would have been dropped. Instead they wasted tax payer dollars and their own time playing Gandhi wannabees like some immature pricks.
These kids are probably trust fund babies who pick up leftist causes to piss off their parents (trustfunarians) and when they grow up and move past the "crust punk" phase they will cash in that trust fund and get the MBA and work at the bank they used to protest in their youth. There is a reason you NEVER see an old anarchist: they all grow up and become Republicans.

I just HAVE to ask the Stranger this: If a Seattle-based white nationalist was thrown in jail for something equally absurd, would they cover it as much as they did this?
I hate white nationalists as much as I hate anarchists, but freedom of speech is freedom of speech. Just as a anarchist moron has the right to wear a black hood and be a prick as long as they don't break the law, a white nationalist moron has the right to do the same with a white hood on. But I doubt the Stranger would be using any ink in the case of the latter.