Mary Anne Grady Flores, a 59-year-old peace activist and grandmother, was sentenced to jail for six months for violating an order of protection forbidding protesters from approaching the home or workplace of Col. Earl Evans, a commander of the Air National Guard. Col. Evans happens to be in charge of Hancock Field Air National Guard Base near Syracuse, New York. The base is where the US trains pilots to launch drone strikes in the Middle East and Ms. Flores is against the drone strikes. She was photographing a protest outside the base and unintentionally stepped onto a road that belongs to the base, thus violating the order of protection.
Does this sound overly harsh to you?
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