Want to be even more pissed about the nun who got 35 months for protesting at Oak Ridge

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http://www.usnews.com/news/newsgram/articles/2014/02/19/nun-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison-for-nuclear-facility-break-in

just remember this case

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/12/10/us-pastor-sentenced-for-aiding-lesbian-in-kidnap-of-daughter-calls-for-case-to-be-dismissed/

An American pastor who was sentenced for helping a woman flee to Central America to escape a custody battle with her lesbian partner has said the case should be dismissed as the crime did not take place in Vermont, where he was sentenced.

The Reverend Kenneth Miller was sentenced by a Federal Court in Vermont to 27 months in prison after he was convicted on the charges in August 2012. He was found to have helped Lisa Miller (no relation) and her daughter Isabella illegally leave the US, arranging transport that took the pair from Virginia to Canada, and then on to Nicaragua. They are still believed to be hiding in Central America.


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Think on this, a man who aided and abetted both after and before the fact a kidnapping of a child who still hasn't be returned to her mother, got 8 less months than she did. I hope that really pisses you off.

[Scuba]

1. I'm not pissed at the nun.

[okaawhatever]

2. I want to add something here. i'm not sure of the nun's sentence, but I heard on the news that the

judge gave the two men convicted with her less than the minimum required by law. The judge did cite the nuns previous arrests as part of the verdict. The judge also cited the men's previous arrests and the fact they would not agree to not do it again in the future. I don't know if the nun refused to stop doing this. Since she's a nun, she might not have felt lying was a good option.

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3. she asked for life in prison

[theHandpuppet]

5. At her age, that may be what she received

I don't think I would have her courage.

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6. I know I wouldn't

watched way too much OZ to even think of having that courage.

[Isoldeblue]

4. It does.

Our judicial system is so unbalanced.

[cthulu2016]

7. No, I don't. I don't find being angry a recreation or treat

Seriously... who would "Want to be even more pissed"? Ted Nugent, maybe.

Much about the world pisses me off, of course. The world is full of injustice, and it is right to point it out. But not because it's fun to be indignant. (Though it is, for many people, fun to be indignant.)

You are offering information that is worthwhile. I am commenting only on the presentation of that information as a tonic for the rage-addicted.

[MisterP]

8. refugio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_movement

[struggle4progress]

9. I agree with her about nuclear weapons. She engaged in an act of civil disobedience.

What she actually did was very unlikely to change anything and was probably intended only as a statement of conscience. The only effect her action can have is through publicity. "Nun sentenced for three years" might get some publicity; "nun gets slap on wrist" probably doesn't. She knew what she intended to do and knew what the possible consequences were. She no doubt accepted the consequences in advance as part of the cost of publicizing her conscientious stand

I think it insults her to turn the story into "It's so unjust! The nun got three years!" That's the wrong soundbit: it deflects from what she's trying to say, which is "Let's get rid of nuclear weapons"