Young Activist Faces 10 Years in Prison After Trying to Save Public Lands From Oil and Gas Companies

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Young Activist Faces 10 Years in Prison After Trying to Save Public Lands From Oil and Gas Companies

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Tim DeChristopher has been indicted on felony charges for bidding in a BLM auction on land he did not have the money to pay for. His trial is set to begin soon.
February 9, 2011

On Friday, December 19, 2008, Tim DeChristopher participated in a public auction. As the Bush administration moved to auction off 77 parcels of federal land totaling 150,000 acres for oil and gas drilling, DeChristopher, a student at the University of Utah at the time, bid $1.7 million for 14 parcels totaling 22,000 acres of land, although he did not have the funds to pay for it.

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Recently, I had the chance to sit down with Tim DeChristopher and ask him about his upcoming trial.

Tina Gerhardt: What's the current status of your trial?

Tim DeChristopher: My trial is scheduled for Monday, Friday 28, 2011. They have limited my defense, not allowing the necessity defense, also known colloquially as the "choice of evil" defense. Basically, I am not allowed to argue out of necessity, which makes it harder to discuss the illegitimacy of the auction to begin with.

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http://www.alternet.org/story/149777/young_activist_faces_10_years_in_prison_after_trying_to_save_public_lands_from_oil_and_gas_companies

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Ah, civil disobedience. We should all be ashamed that we are not

willing to go to jail for what we believe in.

[butterfly77]

2. Kicked..