A great speech, indeed. It’s such a shame that he will face a custodial sentence, although it’s not very surprising seeming as they didn’t really allow him any defense:
“DeChristopher has been forbidden to use the “necessity defence” which was used in the famous Kingsnorth Six trial in the UK, when a jury acquitted activists of causing criminal damage to a coal-power station chimney. The decision means that DeChristopher will not be permitted to argue that he was acting in order to prevent greater environmental damage.
The defence team also sought to argue that the case is politically motivated, by demonstrating that in other cases where bidders have failed to pay, they have not been prosecuted. DeChristopher claims that at least 25 other cases have not been prosecuted. This argument was also blocked by Judge Dee Benson.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/28/tim-dechristopher-trial-oil-gas
Semi-related to being intimidated by the unaccountable powers that be: check how the EU has bowed down to multi-national corps in not improving their commitment to climate change: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12647657
In the last 8 weeks of their administration, Bush + Cheney tried to quietly auction off oil and gas drilling leases to protected park lands in Utah (a 180 degree reversal from the Republican who set them aside, namely Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt). I am surprised the public media didn’t publicize this while covering DeChristopher’s court case. They should be screaming blue-murder. Meanwhile, I didn’t see any coverage of this on the big-three networks, and nothing at the CNN web site.
i.e. totally awesome
he actually reminds me of Martin Luther King, Jr here
A great speech, indeed. It’s such a shame that he will face a custodial sentence, although it’s not very surprising seeming as they didn’t really allow him any defense:
“DeChristopher has been forbidden to use the “necessity defence” which was used in the famous Kingsnorth Six trial in the UK, when a jury acquitted activists of causing criminal damage to a coal-power station chimney. The decision means that DeChristopher will not be permitted to argue that he was acting in order to prevent greater environmental damage.
The defence team also sought to argue that the case is politically motivated, by demonstrating that in other cases where bidders have failed to pay, they have not been prosecuted. DeChristopher claims that at least 25 other cases have not been prosecuted. This argument was also blocked by Judge Dee Benson.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/28/tim-dechristopher-trial-oil-gas
Semi-related to being intimidated by the unaccountable powers that be: check how the EU has bowed down to multi-national corps in not improving their commitment to climate change: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12647657
In the last 8 weeks of their administration, Bush + Cheney tried to quietly auction off oil and gas drilling leases to protected park lands in Utah (a 180 degree reversal from the Republican who set them aside, namely Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt). I am surprised the public media didn’t publicize this while covering DeChristopher’s court case. They should be screaming blue-murder. Meanwhile, I didn’t see any coverage of this on the big-three networks, and nothing at the CNN web site.