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The litany of charges seems a bit much, but a light sentence for trespassing is too little. The penalty, must deter future attempts by other people. $1000 and
by gwright 13y ago
The litany of charges seems a bit much, but a light sentence for trespassing is too little.
The penalty, must deter future attempts by other people. $1000 and a couple weeks of jail is not going to deter other similar protesters.
- pgeorgi 13y agoFixing on-site security will - with the neat side effect to deter criminals, terrorists and so on as well.
- gwright 13y agoAssume the security was 'fixed'. Doesn't mean that someone couldn't come and chop the fence with full intention of getting arrested as part of a political protest. If the known penalty for doing this (even with fully operational security) is light, then that activity isn't really deterred.
- AnthonyMouse 13y agoThe government isn't supposed to deter harmless political protests. The whole idea of civil disobedience is to get yourself put on trial for something you're willing to do the time for. "They aren't being deterred, the prison sentence has to be increased" is obviously a flawed response to that unless your goal is to suppress dissent without regard to how draconian and disproportionate you have to be in order to do it.
- gwright 13y ago1. trespassing at a nuclear processing facility is not harmless political protest 2. insisting on physical security (i.e. no trespassing) at a nuclear processing facility is not in conflict with the idea of peaceful assembly and political protests
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