“She says she has obeyed a higher...
“She says she has obeyed a higher law. Well, if every person in this country could take (the law) into his or her hands . . . we would have a society of anarchy.”
--U.S. District Judge William J. Rea, on sentencing a San Francisco peace activist to five years in prison for destroying a military navigational computer she believed was designed for global nuclear war.
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