Nun sentenced for nuke plant break-in: "Please have no leniency with me"

[UrbScotty]

In her closing statement, Rice asked the judge to sentence her to life in prison, even though sentencing guidelines called for about six years.

"Please have no leniency with me," she said. "To remain in prison for the rest of my life would be the greatest gift you could give me."

She said the U.S. government was spending too much money on weapons and the military, and she told the judge about the many letters of support she had received, including one from youth in Afghanistan.

"This is the next generation and it is for these people that we're willing to give our lives," she said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/18/nun-nuclear-plant_n_4811373.html

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1. She's been doing this her whole life.

Rice, the youngest of three girls in an Irish Roman Catholic family, was born and raised in Manhattan. Her father, Frederick W. Rice, was an obstetrician-gynecologist who taught at New York University and treated patients at several New York City hospitals. Her mother, Madeleine Newman Hooke Rice, was a Barnard College graduate who undertook graduate studies at Columbia University while her children were growing up, obtaining a Ph.D. in history and writing a dissertation on Catholic views about slavery. Frederick and Madeleine Rice were active participants in the Catholic Worker movement and considered Dorothy Day a good friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_Rice

[IrishAyes]

2. A great example to all. I don't consider myself fit to tie her shoelaces.

[shenmue]

3. I love her

[IrishAyes]

4. I can only dream of being half so good.