let will call the case of tend to christopher
he was sentenced
two years to two years in prison last july that would in july two thousand
eleven
for interrupting a federal option
uh... or oil and gas leases in two thousand eight
uh... he was in salt lake city i believe
he was aware of one of these uh... options that were taking place
he put a suit on
he went in he started dating
he'd be add up uh... the prices of these uh...
leases
in the end he didn't get it
he was out there
he doesn't raise the prices for federal land
this the result of this auction with then later nullified for a completely
different reason
and yet
this guy was prosecuted and sent to jail fourth three
years
for three years
even have the ability to just oppose that
against the incredible amount of cost
took pensioners
to states to cities
to the millions of people lost their job because of the
financial fraud that took place
in the course and the wake of the financial crisis in this country
the mortgage fraud
the relentless
securities fraud
even if i was a joke suppose that
three years in prison
attend to christopher dot
to the lack of prison time for all those people involved in that
i wouldn't have to do that say how ridiculous imprisoning tender
christopher was
but he was defiant he went to jail
and apparently
while in jail and a minimum security a camp
at the url long uh... federal prison in california
he became aware
that one of the donor one of the donors to his legal defense fund
was apparently exporting u_s_ manufacturing jobs in laying off workers
and so in any e-mail
to a colleague of his at peaceful uprising
which was the organization that he founded
he wrote an email to them and saying uh...
i feel like i have some influence in hence some responsibility to do
something
if they are saving money by screwing their workers i can't in good conscience
as per second some of that money
he then in this e-mail relates plans to write to this donor
remember now he's threatening this donor
to not except his donation
and that peaceful uprising
will have to take
and in gauging activists activity
to convince this manufacturer to keep his jobs
in america
perfectly legal protest
by the group of what not
he simply just writing and email
so he writes this email
to the donor
and then five days later
he's put into solitary confined
in in eight by ten cell
with no window and allowed to go out for an hour a day
and he was told by the person who put him into this cell that a congressman
had written in demanded an investigation
so
the christopher's
lawyer
a guy named shetty
patrick shetty
suspects that what happened is there is an algorithm that's cans emails
at the prison
and they put up on the word threat in other words i will threaten to not
except
his donation
and that somehow this got back to uh... some prison official
who past a congressman
task for investigation
now under federal rules you're not allowed to organize a political action
from when the purple within the prison this according to her sherry has
interviewed
by uh... douglas
zack
or excuse me by jeff goodell
uh... in rolling stone
and
goodall amazed of of good almeda makes the point that the public did to
christopher did was to write a letter discussing the i didn't do any organized
so um...
as it stands it's just been reported by peaceful uprising that christopher has
been
now taken out of solitary confinement
but it's a reminder first of all
of the fact that tend to christopher is in prison now
because he basically
was engaged in a completely harmless prank
to highlight
how our federal lands are being auctioned off to the highest debtors
to these people who basically want to steal our resources
and there are
on top of stealing our resources they want us to pay for the pollution
that it creates
in the forum of health care
in the form of asthma in the form of all sorts of other problems
in the form of global warming that this presents
so
glad to hear the tender christopher's out solitary confinement now how about
somebody steps up and pardoned him
and get some out of prison
for causing absolutely no damage or harm to anyone