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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25 (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought the title was going to be a little click-baity, but it wasn't. 5-year and 4-year for planning to disrupt traffic is horrible. As the article points out, the dissonance between this sentencing and the actual harm caused by large-scale polluters is insane.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If the sentencing is gonna be that bad for something minor, maybe dramatically up the ante next time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Drunk drivers that crash and actually ended up disrupting traffic get lighter sentences than this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is fucking spot on and honestly I'm disgusted thinking about it.

So endangering the public, disrupting traffic, and potentially killing someone because you crashed your car while shitfaced is better than planning a protest I guess.

Oh yeah I forgot...of course the crime of offending and defying the ultra wealthy oil barons is worse than potentially killing a not rich person. They own basically everything at this point.