Sentence against Ithaca drones protester is a farce and an outrage

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Editor’s Note: This is an editorial by The Ithaca Voice. We are enabling the site’s comments section at the bottom of the story for those who wish to respond.

Ithaca, N.Y. — An Ithaca woman crossed the street and stood for a few minutes where she wasn’t supposed to stand. Then she crossed back to where it was OK to stand. Now she’s going to jail for a year.

(For background on the case, see yesterday’s story, “Criminal or martyr? Inside the political formation of Ithaca’s jailed grandmother.“)

There are plenty of reasons to deplore the excessive jail sentence that DeWitt Town Justice David S. Gideon handed down last week to Mary Anne Grady Flores, a 58-year-old grandmother of three.

Here are seven of them:

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1. K&R Dissent is being criminalized in this country,

and our own laws are being abused to do it.

This is intolerable in the United States of America.