In this day of government's increasingly imposing limits to free speech, this KNS story (prominent on the "hardcopy" page B-1, but difficult to find on-line) was very affirming. It also caused me to think even *more* highly of Criminal Court Judge Mary Beth Leibowitz.
From the text:
The judge lamented the fact that real terrorists have fostered a culture of fear in America, a culture that demonizes dissidence that once was honored and puts protesters like Johnson on Homeland Security lists.
“That doesn’t make you evil,” she told Johnson. “It doesn’t make you terrible. It makes you a dissident.”
Johnson told the judge he was offended at Walker’s labeling of his involvement in environmental protests as akin to street gangs and hate groups.
“The fact the state needs to classify legitimate political dissidence as gang activity I think is pathetic and ridiculous,” he said.
It appears that Jamie Satterfield had to leave the courtroom before Liebowitz rendered her verdict/sentence, as we aren't told how the defendent fared. Well, I hope. See Link... [1].
(Edit: Ah, I see it now, early in the text: Six months probation.)