'Perversion of Justice': Anti-Drone Activist and Grandmother Sentenced to One Year
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Source: Common Dreams
Published on Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Common Dreams
'Perversion of Justice': Anti-Drone Activist and Grandmother Sentenced to One Year
Mary Anne Grady-Flores: 'Who is the real victim here: The commander of a military base involved in killing innocent people halfway around the world or those innocent people themselves?'
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
A week after Mary Anne Grady-Flores, an Ithaca anti-drone activist and grandmother of three, was sentenced to one year in prison, supporters vow that the overly harsh terms will only galvanize those who "place their bodies on the line" in the name of peace.
On July 10, before a packed courtroom of her supporters in DeWitt, New York, Judge David S. Gideon sentenced Grady-Flores, 58, to one year at the Onondaga County jail for violating an order of protection when she photographed an anti-drone protest at the Hancock Air National Guard Base.
Issued on February 13, 2013 after Grady-Flores participated in a peaceful demonstration at the base the prior year, the order barred her from from going near one of the base's commanders. She allegedly violated the order during an Ash Wednesday peace action, which Grady-Flores photographed from a point beyond what she believed was the boundary of the Hancock base.
At a press conference before her sister's trial, Clare Grady said it was "obscene" that a law meant to protect victims of violence was now being used against those who "refuse to be silent" and "refuse to accept the normalization of killing, targeting as a matter of policy."
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