Just Stop Oil protesters handed prison terms for throwing soup on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ | CNN:
“You clearly think your beliefs give you the right to commit crimes when you feel
like it. You do not,” the judge said.
This is my love language.
[Christopher] Hehir is the same judge who recently handed yearslong prison terms to five climate activists for their roles in disruptive protests. All were from Just Stop Oil or its allied group, Extinction Rebellion.
Yay!
Plummer, representing herself, told the court: “My choice today is to accept whatever sentence I receive with a smile. It is not just myself being sentenced today, or my co-defendants, but the foundations of democracy itself.”
Interestingly, the foundations of democracy itself won’t be a spending the next two years in prison.