Kendall Tankersley (left) with her partner H.E. Martel at an International AIDS Candlelight Memorial in Tuscon.
Posted on 12/14/2006 8:28:08 PM PST by george76
Members of the ecoterrorism gang that torched buildings on Vail Mountain in 1998 will be sentenced in April, a federal judge ordered today.
At a hearing in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Ore., two key members of the gang formally pleaded guilty to federal arson charges, although they already had admitted their role in the multimillion-dollar fires.
They destroyed several mountaintop structures including the popular Two Elk Lodge, a restaurant that has been rebuilt.
During the 10-minute hearing, Chelsea Gerlach and Stanislas Meyerhoff, both 29, acknowledged their guilt when asked by Judge Ann Aiken.
Gerlach responded "yes," and Meyerhoff said, "Yes, I do."
Under plea deals, the former Oregon high-school sweethearts turned radical environmentalists -- she used the codename Country Girl and he was Country Boy -- agreed to have the Colorado charges consolidated with other charges pending against them and 11 other gang members.
The other charges stemmed from ecoterrorism strikes against government buildings, automobile dealerships, electricity lines and similar targets in the Northwest between 1996 and 2001.
Gerlach and Meyerhoff pleaded guilty in July to participating in the Northwest ecoterrorism attacks.
They were arrested in December 2005 in a nationwide sweep of ecoterrorism suspects.
In a related hearing, the judge scheduled Meyerhoff's sentencing for April 10 and Gerlach's for April 18.
Others in the gang who have pleaded guilty also will be sentenced in late April.
more to go...
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"two key members of the gang formally pleaded guilty"
"Meyerhoff's sentencing for April 10 and Gerlach's for April 18"
Why in the heck does it take 5-6 months to sentence these creeps? They're guilty...throw them in the hold!
>>will be sentenced in April, a federal judge ordered today.<<
Why the long wait?
" A band of eco-terrorists that called itself "The Family" broke a pattern of sabotage in the Northwest by torching a $12 million mountaintop restaurant in Vail in 1998, according to a federal indictment ..."
Ping
Malicious, ineffectual and cowardly: traits that will serve them well in federal prison.
Under federal law, you can't be sentenced until the probation office has completed a Pre Sentence Report. Its a 25-50+ page document that sums up the defendants life, family history, medical history, criminal history, education, employment, facts of the case, related defendants involvement,etc. Once it is completed the prosecution and defense have 2 weeks to file objections to the report. The probation office then determines whether to change anything in the report. If the report isn't changed then at the sentencing hearing the court determines through evidence and exhibits what the proper sentencing range is, etc. Its a long drawn out process to comport with the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
It has been almost nine years since the Colorado arson attacks...even more years in the Northwest.
Kendall Tankersley (left) with her partner H.E. Martel at an International AIDS Candlelight Memorial in Tuscon.
Clever ACLU lawyers ?
Plea deal... hmmm... I think these were the two that squealed and got the others eventually arrested.
hopefully the jailers will lose the key to their cells once these POS are locked up... let them rot.
At a hearing in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Oregon...
The wheels of justice don't grind slowly...they grind in reverse. What took this so long?
Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff, 28, who used the alias Country Boy while Gerlach was Country Girl...
One of the others, Josephine Sunshine Overaker, 31, remains at large.
Kevin Tubbs, 37, is in jail in Oregon.
One of them offed himself in jail a little while back.
The four worked with "mastermind" William C. Rodgers, a Prescott, Ariz., bookstore owner who went by the code name "Avalon," according to a federal arrest affidavit.
Rodgers drove the same bluish-silver Toyota pickup truck across the West to transport incendiary devices and to plan the Vail firebombing, which involved seven synchronized mountaintop fires set after midnight, according to the affidavit.
Rodgers killed himself in an Arizona jail cell Dec. 22, so his side of the story will remain untold.
"She has been involved in many different aspects of the environmental movement, such as interning with the Oregon Natural Resources Council, canvassing for the Sierra Club, and leading the Environmental Resource Center at Evergreen State College."
Man, this really speaks volumes about her intelligence, and about the organizations she supports!!!!
Her support website asks we send books -- I think I'll send "The Sacred Hunt," I have several copies of it.
Seriously Yank, let's send her some literature, and pictures too.
Probably a solar-powered courtroom.
CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ARSON OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PROPERTY AND OF PROPERTY USED IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE; CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT ARSON AND DESTRUCTION OF AN ENERGY FACILITY; ATTEMPTED ARSON OF A BUILDING; ARSON OF A VEHICLE; ARSON OF A BUILDING; DESTRUCTION OF AN ENERGY FACILITY
Aliases: Lisa Rachelle Quintana, Lisa R. Quintana, Maria Rachelle Quintana, Maria Quintana, "Osha", "Jo", "China", "Josie", "Mo"
Yikes !
Not Just Another Pretty Face
Dr. Jerry Vlasak, a medical doctor who is spokesman for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office, similarly said that law enforcement "is rounding up well-known environmentalists who likely had nothing to do with these offenses and charging them."
1998??? Somebody needs to tell these guys to work through lunch or something..
Man, he's purty, and will be really popular among the general prison population.
His "environmental" ethics are "fixin to go through a real reality check."
Dr. Jerry Vlasak is a physician with an odd interpretation of the Hippocratic Oath’s dictum that doctors should “do no harm.” As a representative of the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), Vlasak told the “Animal Rights 2003” convention that he would endorse the murder of physicians whose research work requires the use of lab rats and other animals.
“I don’t think you’d have to kill -- assassinate -- too many vivisectors,” Vlasak said, “before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on. And I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.” When one woman in the audience disagreed, saying that Vlasak’s approach was no different from that of abortion-clinic bombers, Vlasak was undeterred. “Absolutely,” he countered. “I think they had a great strategy going.”
PCRM has denied that Vlasak was speaking on its behalf, but the event’s program described him as Jerry Vlasak, “Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.” Vlasak has also written for PCRM’s member magazine, and was called a “PCRM spokesperson” in a February 2002 PCRM press release. In an odd bit of historical revisionism, PCRM has since “scrubbed” his name (and the entire paragraph including his quote) from its website’s archive of that press release.
Vlasak and his wife, the former child actress Pamelyn Ferdin, are both directors of a militant “direct action” Los Angeles group called the Animal Defense League (ADL-LA). Ferdin herself is the president of SHAC USA, a violent animal rights group described by the United States Department of Justice as a “domestic terror threat.” And Vlasak has stumped publicly for SHAC, appearing at rallies and protests in support of the group’s “no compromise” plan to rid the world of animal laboratories.
Vlasak has personally been arrested several times for animal-rights-related activity, and urges others to “get arrested.” His most recent brush with the law came in 2005, as he and nine other crew members of the radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society were taken into custody for attempting to interfere with the Canadian seal hunt. Vlasak sits on Sea Shepherd’s board, and is the group’s legal Treasurer.
Dang, I can't believe Miss "earth justice" sunshine has all that ink on her back.
Doesn't she know that ink is environmentally toxic, and the trees they cut down to print ink is "environmentally unsound?"
Why are they referred to as "eco-terrorists"? If these people set a fire on top of a mountain, possibly touching off a huge forest fire, aren't they really "anti-eco-terrorists"? Just a thought.
Pamelyn Ferdin now...
Send them to Florence, Colorado
FEDERAL SUPERMAX (ADX) PAGE
http://www.supermaxed.com/Federal-SM-Page.htm
Vlasak and his wife, the former child actress Pamelyn Ferdin, are both directors of a militant “direct action” Los Angeles group called the Animal Defense League (ADL-LA).
Ferdin herself is the president of SHAC USA, a violent animal rights group described by the United States Department of Justice as a “domestic terror threat.”
And Vlasak has stumped publicly for SHAC, appearing at rallies and protests in support of the group’s “no compromise” plan to rid the world of animal laboratories.
Vlasak has personally been arrested several times for animal-rights-related activity...
http://www.activistcash.com/biography.cfm/bid/3437
Jerry Vlasak was defending his 2003 statement (made as a PCRM spokesperson) that political assassination "could be used quite effectively from a pragmatic standpoint ... for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives."
Great Britain has banned Vlasak and his wife (former child actress Pamelyn Ferdin) because of this and other threats.
The Meat Eaters Cookbook
or
285 Fun Things To Make From A Redwood Tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamelyn_Ferdin
Pamelyn Ferdin (born February 4, 1959) is an American animal rights activist and former child actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Felix Unger's daughter, Edna, on the TV sitcom The Odd Couple, as well as in fantasy and science fiction movies and television series. These roles included Mary Janowski in the Star Trek episode "And the Children Shall Lead", Laura Gentry in Space Academy [1], and Mary Constable in the supernatural thriller Daughter of the Mind. Ferdin also provided the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in the early Peanuts cartoon specials
North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network - How to Help
Vail arson suspects indicted in fed crackdown
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562060/posts
2002 edition of a prisoner support zine, Spirit of Freedom, defined the Green Scare as, "the tactics that the US government and all their tentacles (FBI, IRS, BATF, Joint Terrorism Task Forces, local police, the court system) are using to attack the ELF/ALF (Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front) and specifically those who publicly support them."
And the down side is......?
I remember that spooky episode! The children they discovered on some planet kept talking about "the grups!" It turned out they were talking about the grown-ups who were of course villified. You know that liberals and leftist environmentalists hate "grown-ups," right?
Sentencings set for ELF arsonists (4:30 p.m.)
EUGENE — Separate April sentencing hearings were set today for a Greensprings man and nine of his co-defendants convicted of federal arson charges in a series of Earth Liberation Front firebombings across the West.
Jonathan Paul, 40, will be the 10th and last of the ELF “cell” members sentenced on arson and conspiracy charges stemming from the string of attacks between 1996 and 2001.
Paul’s sentencing hearing will be before U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken in Eugene.
Paul pleaded guilty to one count of arson and conspiracy to commit arson in November for the 1997 firebombing of a Redmond meat-packing plant that was one of the early ELF arson attacks.
Paul’s plea agreement includes a recommended sentence of five years in federal prison. Paul remains free on bail.
OMG what beauts.
Ol "Stanislas" was probably conceived in a rubber raft on the Stanislas river in the mid '70's! Those rafts should have been made into condoms, instead!!!
Or, maybe it should be "Denny GANG-GREEN!"
Beam me up, Scotty!!!
The FBI said that these terrorists were and are the number one domestic terrorism threat...
So where is the old media...?
/s
It's not her fault she was brain washed by Al Gore!
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