For those who requested it, here is the original version of Mary Annes sentencing statement, which she so brilliantly expounded upon in court Doug Noble ____________________________________________________. “Your honor, a series of judicial perversions brings me here before you tonight.” First, I was convicted of violating an order of protection that represents a perversion of its intended use to protect victims of domestic violence. This order allegedly protects the commander of a military base who said himself under oath that he neither knows me nor needs protection from me. The real purpose of this order is to stifle dissent at the base. Second, as my 11-year old neighbor Lucien reminded me recently, this order breaks the law by perverting my Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and my right to protest injustice. Third, my jury trial represented a perversion of justice because the jury was forbidden to hear three key facts: all the protesters I photographed that day as their press liaison were acquitted I myself was previously acquitted for trespassing at the base because even the police could not specify the base boundaries. an acting Supreme Court judge ruled that the Order of Protection is invalid because its language is excessively vague and it shows no evidence of any threat A fourth perversion is the reversal of who is the real victim here: the commander of a military base whose drones kill innocent people halfway around the world, or those innocent people themselves who are the real ones in need of protection from the terror of US drone attacks? As I, a nonviolent grandmother of three and caregiver for my mother, prepare for jail - itself a perversion - I stand before you remorseful, less for what I have done than for what I have not yet done to keep my own country from perpetrating its ongoing acts of violence and injustice.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 14:52:14 +0000
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