7mo ago

Just Stop Oil activist faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag

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7mo ago

Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag

www.theguardian.com /environment/2024/dec/07/just-stop-oil-activist-gaie-delap-facing-jail-recall-as-wrists-too-small-for-electronic-tag

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jfc... she's 77. Does the petrochemical industrial complex require so much protection from this tiny elderly woman that they need her to go back to jail? Because she's not a threat to anything else.
The terms of Delap’s curfew prevent her speaking directly to the media so her brother, Mick, is speaking on her behalf. “This is very cruel,” he said. “Gaie is sitting at home terrified with her suitcase packed waiting for a knock on the door from police. She has been unable to eat or sleep because of this.
“She is hoping against hope that sense can prevail and that she won’t have to go back to jail.”
- I love it when 'big, bad corporations' are scared shitless of tiny elderly women, who despite diminutive stature are explosive powerhouses of activism. It really shows the cowards for who they are.
  
  It’s all about control. How many farmers have been arrested?
- She was part of a group who were literally blocking a motorway.
  They could have caused a serious accident. The idea that they're "not a threat to anything else" is not true.
  
  Those Farage-saluting farmers literally blocking roads with their tractors? Cheered on as the “Farmy Army” by the press. It’s completely different, isn’t it and, of course, tractors can’t cause accidents and never stop ambulances from passing.
  
  No, no they couldn't have. Pedestrians literally legally cannot cause an accident with a vehicle. The driver will always be liable, even if those pedestrians are breaking the law.
  
  Pearl-clutching is unbecoming of you, cut it out.
  
  how exactly could they have caused a serious accident? violently slamming their bodies against a car with such force that it crumples the front?
Meanwhile: Judges have been told to delay the sentencing of convicted criminals currently on bail – including rapists and burglars – because prisons are full,
- And in turn prisons are over filled because we've taken a very american stance of conviction over all else, no evidence of innocence shall get in the way of a conviction.
why is she in jail when prince andrew literally sexually assaulted a teenager and walks free?
- Do you think their crimes are somehow related and one should take account of the other? 😂
  
  There is a sense in which they are related though, and that's that they're both things that fall under the justice system. I understood the person you're replying to as making a general point about their lack of faith in the justice system by juxtaposing a case with disproportionate punishment with a morally awful but unpunished case. The two examples aren't directly related, but that's why the contrast works — it's two facets of a fucked up justice system.
Really dangerous old lady. Really need to know where she is at all times.
If it doesn't fit, you must acquit!
Delap was among several dozen Just Stop Oil supporters who, during a four-day campaign, climbed gantries over the M25, which encircles London, forcing police to stop traffic and leaving an estimated 709,000 drivers stuck in tailbacks.
Forgive me for having zero sympathy for this clown.
- No.
- "how dare a protest inconvenience anyone, to draw attention to a problem?"
  
  You're right. Before this protest I'd never even heard of climate change.
  I don't think anyone had.
- No, you get to burn with the oil execs.

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