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BC Courts send granny to Jail

by mtippett | February 22, 2007 at 12:18 pm | 468 views | 1 comment

Charismatic envirnomentalist Betty Krawcyk has been thrown in jail as a result of her popular campaign to oppose logging operations in BC. She is 75 years old. Here is an excerpt from her powerful final statement to the judge:

And yet in spite of lots of evidence that justice in British Columbia is actually for sale when one is up against corporate might, the thought is so depressing to me that when I am in handcuffs and leg irons, yes, leg irons…and I’m sitting on a metal bench in a police crummy on the long haul back to the Women’s prison at Maple Ridge I try to tell myself, no, Betty…justice can’t actually be for sale in British Columbia. It just seems that way. It just looks that way. It just feels that way. But why does it seem, look, and feel that way to so many other people?

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WestCoast TreeHugger

Actually Betty is not yet in jail.  There is another hearing on March 5th.

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February 22, 2007 at 12:18 pm by mtippett, 468 views, 1 comment

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