The Just Stop Oil activists have been sentenced to 2 years and 20 months in prison for throwing soup on the glass covering of Van Gogh's sunflowers. This ruling is a great example of the repression we're seeing in response to non-violent civil disobedience. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Phoebe Plummer, 23, receives two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident
good grief. it was glass!
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dont try to destroy others people art and you wont see consequences
Non-violent?
Wait - there was glass covering? So the damage/cost to repair was like $25 AT MOST? WTF? How is that worth 2 years of lockup?
It is pretty interesting that folks in the replies don't seem to be aware that nothing these kids did ever destroyed works of art. Did you read the articles or just react to kids being "out of line." Maybe you ought to sit with yourselves and really ask why this is making you so mad.
Prison time? Not community service?
If you are punished with prison anyway, you can give up on non-violent resistance and consider stronger measures. Right?
I'm torn between the judicial overreach and the need to punish idiots
Why is the sentence expressed as 2 years and 20 months rather than 3 years and 8 months? Not the most important thing of note here I realize, but it seems peculiar.