Daily Kos

by John Halliwell

Tue Jul 1, 2008

Last March, Sami Al-Arian was given a choice: 1) damned if you do; and 2) damned if you don’t; he chose “damned if you don’t”. Finally, a full three months after making that decision, he was formally charged last Thursday with contempt of court, a crime which has no maximum penalty. In other words, Dr. Al-Arian – a man whose innocence has been grudgingly admitted by even his worst enemies* – is now facing the possibility of life in jail all because he had the guts to stand up for what he believes in.

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