Editing Civil disobedience (section)

===== Allocution =====
Some civil disobedience defendants choose to make a defiant speech, or a speech explaining their actions, in [[allocution]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pestorius |first=Margaret |date=2020-02-18 |title=Your Activist Speech in Court |url=https://commonslibrary.org/your-activist-speech-in-court/ |access-date=2024-08-12 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU}}</ref> In ''U.S. v. Burgos-Andujar'', a defendant who was involved in a movement to stop military exercises by trespassing on US Navy property argued to the court in allocution that "the ones who are violating the greater law are the members of the Navy". As a result, the judge increased her sentence from 40 to 60 days. This action was upheld because, according to the [[US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit]], her statement suggested a lack of remorse, an attempt to avoid responsibility for her actions, and even a likelihood of repeating her illegal actions.<ref>{{cite court|url=http://openjurist.org/275/f3d/23/united-states-of-america-v-norma-burgos-andjar|vol=275|reporter=F.3d|opinion=23|litigants=United States of America v. Norma Burgos-Andjar}}</ref> Some of the other allocution speeches given by the protesters complained about mistreatment from government officials.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prosario-2000.0catch.com/Politics/allocution.htm|title=Allocution|website=prosario-2000.0catch.com|access-date=12 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116083104/http://prosario-2000.0catch.com/Politics/allocution.htm|archive-date=16 November 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Tim DeChristopher]] gave an allocution statement to the court describing the US as "a place where the rule of law was created through acts of civil disobedience" and arguing, "Since those bedrock acts of civil disobedience by our founding fathers, the rule of law in this country has continued to grow closer to our shared higher moral code through the civil disobedience that drew attention to legalized injustice."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grist.org/climate-energy/2011-07-27-tim-dechristophers-statement-to-the-court/|title=Tim DeChristopher's statement to the court|date=28 July 2011|access-date=2 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013163122/http://grist.org/climate-energy/2011-07-27-tim-dechristophers-statement-to-the-court/|archive-date=13 October 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>