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| "Lock me up or let me go": Betty Krawczyk's submissions on sentencing |
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| The Georgia Straight: not a newspaper? |
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On October 14, 2003, Betty Krawczyk, a seventy-five year old author, activist, former political candidate and great grandmother was sentenced to serve a further six months in prison, in addition to the 4 1/2 months she had already spent in jail awaiting trial. What motivates such a person to spend her 75th birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's behind bars? Betty's speech to the judge, slightly edited, is reproduced below:
I would first like to speak to my sentencing from the point of view of being an elder.
I turned seventy-five in prison last August 4th and I decided I really liked the term ‘elder’. ‘Elder has a ring of dignity about it that ‘Senior Citizen’ doesn’t have.
In prison I have been learning to drum and sing native songs with the Native Sisterhood, and I have noted that the respect afforded elders is still alive and breathing in their society, even in prison.
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More than 600 people are being detained indefinitely without charge at "Gitmo", an American military base located in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They were apprehended in Afghanistan in late 2001 or early 2002 by coalition troops fighting the "War on Terror". They have been denied access to lawyers, consular officials and family members. Twenty-one have attempted to commit suicide.
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In a strange development, the B.C. Government has determined that the Georgia Straight must pay over a million dollars in taxes, on the basis that the popular weekly publication is not a newspaper.
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