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[Today, Mandy was sentenced to 16 months in prison. During the sentencing hearing, she made this statement to the court, which was interrupted 8 times, by both the judge and the prosecutor. In the end, they spoke more during the time alloted to Mandy than Mandy spoke…

Click-through for the whole piece. It’s fantastic. I love how she takes every opportunity to remind the justice officials that she doesn’t respect their authority.

Some of my friends from Waterloo, who are friends with Mandy, were quick to point out this this MLK quote addressed the rebuttals of the Judge concerning Martin Luther King’s tactics: 

I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed by the white moderate,” he wrote in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. “I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice, who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice, who constantly says ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action,’ who paternalistically believes that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

So there you go.