Government Bravely Prosecutes Nun for Embarrassing It

[lafinjack]

On January 28, unexpected snow postponed the sentencing of 83-year-old Sister Megan Rice and two fellow activists in Knoxville, Tennessee. They face up to 30 years in prison for "willfully damaging federal property" (which they did) and "sabotaging national defense material" (which they didn't) by breaking into the Y-12 complex at Oak Ridge and

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[tabaqui]

Omfg. That brief. The pompous, self-righteous tone!

Hope the judge laughs in their faces and gives the nuns time served.

[policraticus]

::shrugs::

The whole point of civil disobedience is being arrested, prosecuted and convicted. Doing time is what makes your point, what should shock the conscience of society, it is what demonstrates the injustice of the system. (Thoreau, Gandhi, King and Mandela all would agree.) So it's win/win, as far as I can tell.

[dafairyness]

Thanks for posting, op. I'd completely forgotten about this.
I also feel bad for the security guard that lost his job (wasn't he the only person who lost his job over this?) because he didn't pull his gun on them.