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Climate activist in New Zealand faces up to 10 years in prison over fake letter saying fossil fuel event cancelled (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Rosemary Penwarden, 64, who sent the letter to an oil company’s delegates argued it was a form of “satirical protest”, said she was astonished by the outcome.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

agree with "up to 10 years" is just what the maximum sentence is for these crimes without any context

making a forged document
using a forged document

Considering what was actually done in context it would be absolutely insane for them to be given anything like that sentence but we would need to wait to hear the actual sentencing before all getting twisted up about how unfair it is.

Right now this is just a report saying that two crimes "making a forged document" and "using a forged document" can result in up to 10 years in jail which in itself isn't exactly shocking.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Crown prosecutor Richard Smith told jurors the trial wasn’t about debating climate change or Penwarden’s character, but the use of a falsified document. “It was just to cause disruption to the conference with a thinly veiled defence of satire woven into it,” Smith said.

I mean, makes sense. But considering her attempts to cancel the meeting didn't even work, I'd be surprised if she gets the 10 year sentence for this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She worked against oil company and private greed. Totally justifies the crime.

If only she was sensible enough to commit crimes against humanity, she should have been given only slap on thw wrist.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Nah, she should have created a corporation that did the crime. Worst case it that they get acquired after years of litigation with her profiting off the fame and jumping out with a golden parachute.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I hope she won't get a sentence, but I am not a lawyer for expressing an informed legal opinion. The point I make is that we know in the meantime that the oil industry has been downplaying climate change and its related health issues for decades, although they new about it from their own research in the 1980s already. And no one faces any consequences. As a legal layman I can't say whether that's legal, but I don't feel it's right.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Victimless crime

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