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I can't be alone in thinking that jailing people who obstruct traffic and jailing people who we believe intend to obstruct traffic are two totally different matters.

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Usually that believe stems from the fact that those people explicitly announced they would do it again. And again. After being sentenced. In front of a judge.

https://www.merkur.de/deutschland/kleber-aktivisten-letzte-g...

I would still rather have them sentenced for the crimes they’ve committed - even if sentenced harshly due to their unrepentant disposition - than for the crimes they may commit in the future.

We are all hypothetical criminals and I would prefer that the state not have that freedom to lock people up.

I don't think most people have claimed they will commit a crime in the future. Not necessarily for climate protests, but in many cases in the US we do this same thing too.

https://www.bostoncriminaldefenselawyers.com/threat-to-commi...

https://ravellawfirm.com/blog/can-someone-go-to-jail-for-thr...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373

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