Posted on 03/23/2009 7:32:32 PM PDT by george76
Two environmental extremists have been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution for their role in a Michigan State University (MSU) arson that caused more than $1 million in damage.
Marie Mason, of Cincinnati, and Frank Ambrose, of Detroit, were sentenced in February 2009 and October 2008, respectively, on charges relating to an explosion and fire at MSU's Agriculture Hall on New Year's Eve 1999. The arson was the most serious incident in a series of criminal acts the couple carried out on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), the most active environmental extremist movement in the United States.
Mason and Ambrose, who were previously married, admitted to being involved in a five-year spree that began in 1999, when they set fire to two boats owned by a man who formerly raised minks in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. They also committed tree spikings (hammering a long nail into a tree in order create shrapnel injuries when cut by logging tools such as a chainsaw) in Indiana and set fires at four homes under construction in the Detroit area, among other criminal acts.
ELF claimed responsibility for the fire in a communiqué released in the weeks that followed.
(Excerpt) Read more at adl.org ...
Mason and Ambrose committed the arson at MSU’s Agriculture Hall on December 31, 1999,
in the fire that ensued... it caught Mason’s hair and prevented her from finishing a message she was spray-painting that read, “No GMO,” referring to genetically modified organisms.
Thanks geo.
Finally some good news today.
More Scum...
Let’s hope they make real good friends on the inside :o)
I hope they enjoy the scenery from the inside.
Outstanding!!! And in the federal system they'll do practically all of it even if they are model prisoners. LOL!!
” . . . in the fire that ensued... it caught Mason’s hair and prevented her from finishing a message she was spray-painting that read, “No GMO,” referring to genetically modified organisms.”
Now that’s funny!!!
She’s a bright one, maybe she can lecture me some more on how to save the earth, or anything else. She is morally superior to me and all. And, while she’s at it, explain to me how the spray paint is bad for the environment.
Thanks - this news helps to renew my soul.
Watch this.
* Hold ma beer *
Flash.
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Thanks for the good news. :)
Wow, these dirtbags actually are paying for what they did?? A good day, indeed.
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