Copyrighted Image? DMCA | There's a saying among lawbreakers: "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime." There's also another saying for law-keepers: "Make the punishment fit the crime." The latter was not the case July 10 in the Town of DeWitt where local Judge David S. Gideon handed down a one-year jail sentence to Ithaca grandmother, Mary Anne Grady Flores, stemming from her involvement in an Ash Wednesday anti-drone protest at Hancock Field Air Force Base. Grady Flores' civil disobedience was nonviolent and faith-based. Flores and her family are among a cadre of some of the nation's best-known anti-war activists who have maintained a regular presence at Hancock to say to no to violence and war. |
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