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An activist who became a hero for the American left to gatecrashing an auction of the Government for the oil and gas industry began its first full day in prison on Wednesday.
Tim DeChristopher was sentenced at a court in Salt Lake City on Tuesday to two years in prison and a $10,000 (￡ 6,100) well to tender for $1. 8 m (￡ 1. 1 m) did not have drilling rights in Utah. He began his sentence in a prison in the County in Farmington, Utah, about 20 kilometers from Salt Lake City.
The activists of the filmmaker Michael Moore to the scientist James Hansen denounced the sentence as excessive. "2 years 2 much." Tim's demonstrated courage, lack the rest of us, "the environmental activist Bill McKibben twitteo."
Organization of civil disobedience DeChristopher, lifting Pacific, said Wednesday that hopes to use the phrase to encourage protests in Washington next month against a proposed pipeline from the tar sands of Alberta for Texas. "Consider this your call to action", said the Group on its Web site.
More than two dozen activists were arrested Tuesday as Judge Dee Benson handed down its ruling, saying the Court that they change their strong beliefs of the DeChristopher climate does not justify interrupting the action of the industry.
"I am not saying that it is not a place for civil disobedience," said Benson. "But it cannot be the order of the day."
He continued: "Mr DeChristopher had many other legal forms to go against or protest the auction".
However, it allowed DeChristopher read a statement from 35 minutes before the Court which argued that its purpose was to be responsible for the environmental damage caused by the oil industry.
"My intention at the time of the auction and it was now expose, embarrass and take responsibility for the oil and gas industry, to the point that cut into profits of $ would cost" DeChristopher said.
He said that it does not seek to deliberately go to jail.
"I have no desire to go to prison and any assertion that I want to be that even a temporary martyr is wrong", said. "You cannot sentence me to a wide range of efforts of the community service that draw my commitment to a healthy world and just a different way."
As a bidder not 70, DeChristopher interrupted what was seen as a final gift to the oil and gas industry by the Bush administration, bidding $1. 8 m (￡ 1. 1 m) did not have the right to drill in remote areas of the State of Utah. He was found guilty of defrauding the Government in March and could have been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In a telephone conversation with the guardian one day before the ruling,
DeChristopher said he had no plan clear when fulfilled at the auction in Salt Lake City, in December 2008.
"" The time I went with a type of direct action of thinking mode of thinking that if I can cause enough delay, stop this action and keep oil in the ground, then that could be worth the effort, he said.
He had come directly from write one of their finals, shaving, and in an old down jacket. "Certainly does not look like someone who was there," said. "Not to be an Executive of oil or anything else".
The federal Bureau of Land Management officials asked if he wanted to bid. DeChristopher said yes, still thinking at that time that he just wanted to shout something or cause a disruption.
But when the auction ended, DeChristopher had driven prices in some plots and winning bids by 14 pieces of land: some of which close to national parks. I knew that he had no money to pay for it.
The administration of Obama later cancelled the majority of sales, due to doubts about the Bush leasing plan.
DeChristopher defense was complicated from the beginning when the judge refused to hear the arguments that had been forced to act, to prevent a greater evil: climate change.
But while the argument do not move to the Court, won DeChristopher track on the campus and a greater generation of activists. He also founded a group of civil disobedience, peaceful insurrection.
"Tim is a hero to me," wrote Peter Yarrow, American folk singer and member of Peter, Paul and Mary, in an article in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that DeChristopher compared to the leaders of the civil rights movement.
"American history, acts of civil disobedience have led to change." Thinking on the underground railroad helped slaves to freedom, or on the courageous actions of people like Rosa Parks, who refused to stay at the bottom of the bus simply because of her skin color. "Without this kind of challenge unjust laws our country would probably still denied fundamental freedoms to people of color."
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