Posted on 12/08/2005 4:45:32 PM PST by crazyhorse691
Federal authorities announced Thursday the biggest eco-terrorism bust in U.S. history, clearing up a series of arsons that plagued the Pacific Northwest from 1998 to 2001.
The U.S. Attorney for Oregon, Karen J. Immergut, announced the arrests of six alleged ecosaboteurs from Portland to New York accused of taking part in four arsons attributed to the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, as well as the vandalizing of power transmission lines.
The nine-year investigation cleared up, in order, the June 1998 arson of a U.S. Department of Agriculture building in Olympia; the December 1998 torching of U.S. Forest Industries in Medford; the January 2001 arson at Superior Lumber Co. in Glendale; and the May 2001 arson at Jefferson Poplar Farms in Clatskanie.
Authorities also announced they have cleared up the downing of a power transmission line near Bend on the eve of the 2000 millennium celebration.
Arrested were Sanislas G. Meyerhoff, 28, in Charlottesville, Va.; Daniel G. McGowan, 31, in New York; Kevin M. Tubbs, 36, in Springfield, Ore.; William C. Rodgers, 40, of Prescott, Ariz.; Sarah K. Harvey, 28, in Flagstaff, Ariz.; and Chelsea D. Gerlach, 28, in Portland.
Each of the six was charged with taking part in one or more of the crimes.
:-)
*shakin' my can*
Good messin with ya.......
ditto!
If these commie pukes even have wages....
and, ....spiking a tree is dangerous..sounds like attempted murder to me.
S'pose you already saw this...?
All Righty, then. Let's get on to the CIVIL suits...
(...and pass the popcorn, if you wouldn't mind...)
Thanks for posting this!
Yes but I would rather my friends point them out anyway, just in case. Thanks for thinking of me.
The activistcash.com link you posted is excellent!
I don't know too much in detail about Rod Coronado besides his ties with PETA and ALF. I imagine that he has been through the revolving door a few times.
I had my suspicions about the Humane Society, but figured that they were more after the $$, and not as radical as PETA/ALF etc. There was an article in the Edmonton Journal recently about increasing bag limits on geese as they are a nuissance. They were whining pretty hard about it, their solution was some sort of 'goose contraceptive' or 'egg oiling'??? Typical liberal 'waste tax-payer money' solution, when there people are willing to pay to solve a problem.
But then again, hunting is bad. /heavy sarcasm
Do you have any HSUS links?
I did try to write down the license plate number, but was in a construction zone at the time (3-lane wide Chicago-area interstate at rush hour), and opted to be more careful with my driving! :-)
Most of them seem to be "professional students" hopping from one community college to the next.
Okay, spill what you know or I'll empty this 10 pound container of OLD freon into the atmosphere.
The Wildlands Project is about changing America from private to public land ownership. That is treason. Hang 'em all, starting with the Nossiating Dr. Noss who schemed up the Wildlands Project.
proud_yank,
I have lots of them. You can start with these:
http://www.ampef.org/
www.consumerfreedom.com
http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/136
http://www.animalrights.net/archives/year/2001/000177.html
Longtime ALF Activist Hired by HSUS
John Paul Goodwin
Terrorism
By Brian Carnell
Wednesday, September 5, 2001
Last week the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade sent out a press release saying it was reorganizating. It turns out that the Humane Society of the United States recently hired CAFT's JP Goodwin. Fur Commission USA has an excellent article, Careers in the Conflict Industry, on Goodwin and HSUS.
As the Fur Commission USA article makes clear, Goodwin has a long history of arrests. In 1993 he plead guilty to vandalizing several fur stores. In fact, the Fur Commission USA article includes a nice photo of Goodwin wearing a shirt emblazoned with Animal Liberation Front.
Now, Goodwin has the backing of the Humane Society of the United States' tax free millions.
Source:
Careers in the Conflict Industry. Teresa Platt, Fur Commission USA, August 12, 2001.
The constitution gives us the right to free association.
If people commit crimes they should be punished for those crimes. If someone aids a criminal before, during, or after then they are also guilty of a crime.
Accusing people of "conspiracy to commit a crime" seems on the face of it to be anti-constitutional as it is making a crime of free association and not just the behavior that resulted from it.
Obviously I'm wrong in my thinking as people have been going to jail for conspiracy for years and years. But then I also believe that there is a right to keep and bear arms in the Constitution which soon may go they way of the dinosaurs as well.
Do you really think that they thought that the power company would stop putting up electrical towers because they tore one down?
Or that all lumber companies would start selling planet-friendly coffee because they torched one in Glendale?
Six fewer democrat voters.
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