Eve Tetaz is a very dangerous woman. With good reason she was arrested last week while terrorizing the capitol in protest over the continuing operations at Guantanamo. Don't be fooled by her age: at 78 she is younger in spirit and action than most people. None dare openly care her a terrorist, but that is what she is.
What is this terrorist's weapon of choice? Non-violent civil disobediience. She employs that weapon to attempt to terrorize the public out of apathy at the endless wars we as a country wage. Worse, she has a habit of getting into the face of our public officials. She's got a rap sheet long enough to qualify as a modern day "Ma" Barker. She refuses to act her age according to Republicans by sitting down to watch TV pundits pontificate on how things can't change.
I'm not disturbing the peace,
I'm disturbing the war.
Eve Tetaz
arrested
Don't be taken in by that affable smile, she's a very dangerous woman.
It's a familiar scene for Eve Tetaz. She sits in the cold, damp holding cell, crammed together with other women. Some, like her, were arrested for protesting. Others are locked up for drugs, assault or prostitution.
It is not exactly Eve's first time behind bars in support of her beliefs. She's been arrested 20 times in the last 4 years-though only convicted 14 times for such terrorist activities as "unlawful assembly, disorderly conduct, contempt and crossing a police line."
Last week, she and others from Witness Against Torture seemingly invisibly (from the POV of the MSM) marched throughout the District of Columbia, traversing the White House, the Supreme Court, and the Capitol. Iraq, Afghanistan, and the suicides of prisoners at Guatanamo are not as invisible to her as they may seem to be to most Americans.
It is one thing to be against the waste of life, resources, and moral credibility of our wars/occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there's no need to be rude about it-is there?
Tetaz and at least three other demonstrators attended a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing May 21, stood up as Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) began to speak and yelled out: "No more blood money. Stop the war." Police said Tetaz and the other protesters then threw dollar bills into the aisle of the Senate chamber. The money had been covered in Tetaz's blood as well as the blood of the other demonstrators, drawn from each by a physician friend.
Can you believe that. What kind of a fantasy world does this menace live in? To imagine that money could ever influence anyone in the Senate chamber!
Last week, the judge in her most recent arrest said, "Ms. Tetaz has repeatedly over time ignored court orders and our laws," the judge added. She sentenced Tetaz to 75 days in jail, but suspended 50 days -- unless Tetaz is arrested again while on probation over the next 18 months.
I doubt that "suspension" will suspend Eve's activities in the next 18 months-unless Guantanamo is finally closed and the blood shed in her name is brought to an end.
...police, noticing her frailty, often offer Tetaz the option of receiving a citation and release from jail, but she declines, choosing to remain locked up with other demonstrators. "Eve lines up her life with how she thinks the world should be," Daloisio said. "She has a spirit that transcends her age and her physical limitations."
When she goes to jail Eve is accustomed to take along her glaucoma and heart trouble meds. Even having leukemia doesn't keep her at home.
Who knew that working for 3 decades teaching as a public school teacher was training as a terrorist? And a consistent one at that. She's not only protested the wars under Bush and Obama, but in the last century found herself arrest on the the Capitol steps in protest over Vietnam. Sure, Vietnam eventually ended, but didn't Eve get the meme that our wars are now endless?
For Antiwar Protesters, the Cause Isn't Lost
Eve Tetaz, 78, stood near a small sound stage and zipped up her orange jumpsuit. She had a trial pending from another protest, but she still planned to risk arrest Monday — something she had done so often that preparing for jail was part of her routine. Phone numbers of fellow protesters were inked on her forearm so she could call from jail. A neighbor in Adams Morgan had agreed to watch her two cats. Her glaucoma medicine was packed underneath her jumpsuit. She wore a heavy sweatshirt that itched in the heat but would make for a fantastic pillow in a cell.
"Jail is a little uncomfortable," Tetaz said, "but so is the dentist."
Is no war safe from this woman?
I freely admit to having a bit of a crush on this very dangerous woman. I hate to be Petty about it, but...
Well she won't back down, no she won't back down
You can stand her up at the gates of hell
But she won't back down