Letters to the Editor
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@Pretty Lady
Is there anyone who has never felt righteous indignation at one of the many atrocities perpetrated globally, upon the environment and other humans, by governments, corporations, and individuals with too much power and too little conscience? Can you not see that a person may take action upon the dictates of conscience, and that conscience may not always dovetail with the law, and that fact is one of the most unique and precious virtues of humanity? Without conscience we would all be mindless automatons.
OK, so your conscience tells you to burn down a university building where you (incorrectly) think they might be doing research that might lead to mutant tree genes being let loose.
Fair enough. Go with your conscience. Be willing to go to prison to publicize your opinion.
Next thing your conscience is telling you to rat out an acquaintance who had nothing to do with the crime, so that you can get your own sentence reduced?
Some conscience! But you have to do what is right.
All I can say is that if Briana really is innocent, then I hope she and her friends will rat out every person they can think of who has committed crimes under the auspices of ELF. Maybe she will then get some reduction in her sentence.
Personally I suspect she is guilty, but I was not in that court room and did not hear all the evidence.
She can, of course, appeal against the verdict and the sentence.