Stand up for your Planet!
Wednesday, 21. February 2007, 20:37:25
Betty Krawczyk is 80 years old. She was arrested (CBC) in May 2006 for pacifically protesting against the destruction of a fragile ecosystem. She now faces up to 15 months in jail.
Mrs Krawczyk puts her foot where her mouth is and is not scared by that perspective. As she puts it herself:
I invite you to read the full text of her letter to the judge on my own blog or to visit hers for more details about her past actions.I won’t do community service should that be part of my sentence. I have done community service all of my life and I have done it for love. I refuse to have community service imposed on me as a punishment. And I won’t pay a fine or allow anyone else to pay a fine for me. I won’t accept any part of electronic monitoring as I would consider that an enforced internalization of a guilt I don’t feel and don’t accept and I refuse to internalize this court’s opinion of me by policing myself.
WIDGETIZE