Greenpeace Versus The Toxic Texan

"Greenpeace, charged with the obscure crime of 'sailor mongering'
, which was last prosecuted 114 years ago, goes on trial on Monday in the first [ever!] US criminal prosecution of an advocacy group for civil disobedience.

The environmental group is accused of sailor mongering because in April 2002 it boarded a freighter that was carrying illegally felled Amazon mahogany to Miami. It says the prosecution is revenge for its criticism of the environmental policies of President George Bush, whom it calls the 'Toxic Texan'. "