Posted on 05/24/2007 10:16:54 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Environmentalist Gets 13 Years In Arson Fires
ASSOCIATED PRESS
May 24, 2007
EUGENE, Ore. – Declaring fires set at a police station, an SUV dealer and a tree farm to be acts of terrorism, a federal judge yesterday sentenced the first of 10 members of a radical environmental group to 13 years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken commended Stanislas Meyerhoff for having the courage to “do the right thing” by informing on his fellow arsonists after his arrest, but declared that his efforts to save the Earth by setting fires were misguided and cowardly, and contributed to an unfair characterization of others working legally to protect the environment as radicals.
“It was your intent to scare and frighten other people through a very dangerous and psychological act – arson,” Aiken told Meyerhoff. “Your actions included elements of terrorism. . . . The fact that your actions were completely irrational doesn't mitigate this. Nor does the fact no one was hurt.”
Meyerhoff, 29, has admitted to being a member of a Eugene cell of the Earth Liberation Front known as The Family, responsible for more than 20 arson fires from 1996 through 2001 in five Western states that did $40 million in damage. Meyerhoff was involved in fires at a Eugene police substation, a Eugene SUV dealer, an Oregon tree farm, federal wild horse corrals in Wyoming and Northern California, and a ski resort in Vail, Colo. He also helped topple a high-voltage transmission line tower in Oregon.
After a member of the cell, Jacob Ferguson, agreed to turn informant and wear a hidden recording device, Meyerhoff and five others were arrested. Soon after, Meyerhoff turned informant as well.
How redundant is it to say “arson fires”?
We had a cell of ELF members but they seem to have moved away as we haven’t had any eco-terrorism for a couple years.
Being in prison is a liberal wet dream. Look at it this way. Affordable housing is available. The government pays all health care and education costs. 3 free meals a day. Complete gun control. Sodomy in the day, sodomy at noon, sodomy at night. Celebrate diversity with people of many different colors.
Every liberal should be put in prison to enjoy their utopia.
Sounds like something those white Caucasians would say.
Cuddling up with Bubba at night could lead to somewhat abnormal wet dreams.
You can’t expect to put something as horribly pollutionary as a tree farm in an environmentalist’s vicinity and not expect him to react violently.
Thought he was up for over a thousand years. Activist judge?
Hey, what about the Global Warming component of these fires? These guys should be run out of the Greenies. Probably raised the temp of the earth about 1/36578th of a bit of a degree.
The judge left a carbon footprint on their asses.
No he snitched on his comrades, so he got a reduction in sentence will not be viewed well in lock up.
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