American Buddhist Net

Web-designer Walt Staton, 27, a volunteer with a Tucson AZ humanitarian aid group, routinely places sealed jugs of drinking water in the Arizona desert at the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, in the paths undocumented migrants use as they to attempt to enter the US. For that, he was convicted this month of littering. This criminal misdemeanor carries a punishment of up to one year of in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to information provided by the group he assists called, appropriately enough: No More Deaths.

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The arrest, prosecution, and conviction of Staton are actually real crimes--negligent homicide and abuse of process, because preventing him from placing the water will eventually lead to someone's death and calling it "littering" is an abuse both of the legal system and littering laws which were never designed with this use in mind. American Buddhist Net is in favor of scaling back immigration - both legal and illegal - but this kind of thing is so mean-spirited and nasty it truly must shock the conscience of any reasonable person. Those who followed (in a helicopter, no less), arrested, charged, and convicted Staton should be fired immediately, if not prosecuted themselves. If the facts of this story are accurate, it is truly beyond disgusting that an American court of law could convict someone of a "crime" like this. ABN