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  • To think that a young man in an act of conscience might spend ten years, five years, one year in a federal prison for raising a paddle in an already illegal sale of oil and gas leases,  compared to  the CEO of BP or the financial wizards on Wall Street who have pocketed millions of dollars at our expense who will never  step into a court of law to even get their hands slapped, let alone go to jail, is an assault on democracy.

    Terry Tempest Williams on Tim’s Potential Sentence

    To think that a young man in an act of conscience might spend ten years, five years, one year in a federal prison for raising a paddle in an already illegal sale of oil and gas leases, compared to the CEO of BP or the financial wizards on Wall Street who have pocketed millions of dollars at our expense who will never step into a court of law to even get their hands slapped, let alone go to jail, is an assault on democracy.

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