Background:
There's an overcrowing crisis in the UK's prison system. The Home Secretary wrote to all judges telling them to only send VIOLENT PERSISTENT criminals to jail. Since then, 2 convicted paedophiles have been released on bail because there's not enough room in prison.
Lindis Percy is a 64-year-old Quaker, grandmother and retired midwife. She has been sent to jail for refusing to pay a £50 fine for peacefully protesting outside a US Spy Base at Menwith Hill nr Harrogate in North Yorkshire, UK. The spy base listens in on millions of people's phone calls. Despite the fact that it's on UK soil, the British Government has no control or oversight over it + is not allowed access to any intelligence it might produce. Lindis Percy has been campaigning for the base to be accountable to Parliament so that innocent people aren't spied on.
Is she really SO dangerous that she should be sent to jail when paedophiles aren't?
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2193669.ece
2007-01-29
05:06:04
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