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.
LOL
I cleaned up that reply because of Lady Freepers like you.
I think it is a great idea to send some of these clowns a care package. I've got some GREAT deer hunting/dressing photos I could print off and send.
They might appreciate some beef jerky and a copy of Petroleum News too...
We could start a thread in General/Chat to get some more interest.
Thats quite the 'stash', no?
About six months ago, NRA News had a full-page article about this clown. I got a kick out of that.
Yeah, I clicked on some of the links and the sentences for all of them that I read about were all less than ten years.
If there wasn't some there to begin with the cops should have planted some dope on them and then got them for a double dime.
They destroyed several mountaintop structures including the popular Two Elk Lodge, a restaurant that has been rebuilt.I was there in 2000. It is a lodge to take one's breath away. It is a monumental structure of mammoth proportions, built entirely out of wood. The pillars that are used to support the roof in the dining area are collosal posts at least 15' in diamter (if not 20'). And they're so tall! 4 to 5 stories, easily, and about as wide at the top as at the bottom. Definitely old growth wood. The amount of lumber used to construct the rafter and joisting is absolutely mind boggling. Everywhere you look throughout the lodge are huge stuffed animals, including grizzlies, elk, cougar, eagles, you name it. I was absolutely staggered at the sheer provinence of present the structure exudes.
And yet, its not overbearing, nor overwhelming, but charming, cozy, comfortable, elegant, rustic. Only when one comes to know that less than two years prior the previous building had burnt to the ground, does the statement being made by its builders take on that extra subtle but poignant significance.
I had remembered commenting on the large expanse of wilderness surrounding the resort, visible from the chairlift, that appeared to recently having experienced a forest fire (devastating in its affect). I was informed by a local that the obcene and exceedingly ugly blot on the landscape was due to arson that had been perpetrated by indians. I was flabbergasted. Yeah, they were protesting the environmental impact that the resort had on the local cougar habitat. Preserving the cougar habitat by burning down the forests it lives in? The guy just shrugged, and said, don't know what to tell ya.
All I can tell ya 'bout Two Elks Lodge: its absolutely stunning gorgeous. I was dumbfounded when I found out it had burned down, to be rebuilt entirely of massive (and I mean massive) amounts of wood. It'll never burn down again I was told. No? They don't have the balls to do it again. If they do, we'll build it back 4 times as big, with twice the stuffed animals (and 1/2 will be endangered species appropriated from museums).
Yet another one of these "womyn" with mustaches.
Think we ought to take out subscriptions of "Field and Stream" for these eco-weenies?!
By burning this lodge, at least twice as many trees had to be cut down.
Ditto
"They say beauty is skin deep, but ugly goes clear through"
To da bone!!!
Aww, no message board! I was going to offer to send soap-on-a-rope!
Send them to Gitmo.
Works for me, gravity check with a renewable resource - hemp. At least the environmentalists would know we cared about the environment when we indicate no new technology would be used to facilitate their demise.
SS
Pamelyn Ferdin....was she the star of the Nancy Drew TV series way back ? OMG ! Now she's an animal rights terrorist ?
Who would'a thunk it ?
You got your Pamelas all mixed up, just like your memory cells. Now go home.
Hopefully, the sentence will include restitution prior to eligibility for parole. Then they can rot forever.
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