Anna Holland stays proud and defiant, in prison for up to 20 months for flinging tomato soup at one of Van Gogh's sunflower paintings in the National Gallery.
The shock of being in here has quickly been followed by an even stronger feeling of power. In sentencing two young, peaceful people to prison, the judge had made it abundantly clear how far the UK has fallen from the democratic state it claims to be. Our imprisonment is not a symptom of the broken system but a sign that the system, fuelled by dirty oil and arms money, is working exactly how it was intended.....
......This whole experience has taught me that our laws and our legal systems are no more based on morality than our climate policies are on science and the good of humanity. You won’t find the real criminals behind these walls, you will find them in the seats of parliament, running our country.
Just Stop Oil has this criticism of the Judge (Christopher Hehir) in Anna's case (also involving a young woman called Phoebe Plummer, who got two years)
on December 22, 2024, 10:34 pm