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California man found guilty in eco-terrorist plot (faces up to 20 years in prison and $250K fine)
ap on Riverside Press Enterprise ^ | 9/27/07 | AP

Posted on 09/27/2007 8:35:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

SACRAMENTO - A federal jury on Thursday found a 29-year-old environmental activist guilty of conspiring to burn down or blow up a northern California dam, a genetics lab, cell phone towers and other targets.

Eric McDavid of Foresthill, Calif. faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for what FBI agents said was as an eco-terrorist plot in the name of the Earth Liberation Front, a shadowy, loose-knit group of environmentalists that has claimed credit for arsons throughout the West.

McDavid and two others were arrested in January 2006 after purchasing bottles of bleach, a car battery, potassium chloride and other items prosecutors said were being used to build plastic explosives.

McDavid's two co-defendents pleaded guilty last year in exchange for testifying against McDavid.

Jurors listened to them and testimony from an undercover FBI informant before deliberating for 11 hours and returning the guilty verdict.

McDavid's attorney argued he was a victim of entrapment because the FBI informant provided money and help to buy the items.

U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott called the verdict a message the ELF "is misdirected in its tactics and a danger to the community."

"Eric McDavid and others like him choose to put innocent civilian lives in jeopardy for the sake of advancing their own extreme views," Scott said in a statement.

The Nimbus Dam on the American River near Sacramento, and the U.S. Forest Service's Institute of Forest Genetics in Placerville, in the foothills east of Sacramento, were among the alleged targets.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: americanriver; bleach; california; californiadam; cellphonetower; cellphonetowers; dam; earthliberationfront; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorist; elf; ericmcdavid; forestgenetics; guilty; mcdavid; nimbusdam; placerville; plasticexplosives; potassiumchloride
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To: calcowgirl
I’d like to think some logger on the jury wanted to castrate him...
21 posted on 09/27/2007 9:29:26 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: NormsRevenge
Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist! :-)
22 posted on 09/27/2007 9:35:37 PM PDT by TheDon (The DemocRAT party is the party of TREASON! Overthrow the terrorist's congress!)
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To: forester; jazusamo
the U.S. Forest Service's Institute of Forest Genetics in Placerville...


23 posted on 09/27/2007 9:38:52 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: peggybac

Die Hippy Die!

24 posted on 09/27/2007 9:50:37 PM PDT by BBell
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To: NormsRevenge; george76

Good news! Hope the judge has the stones to give him a max sentence.

Thanks for the ping, George.


25 posted on 09/27/2007 9:57:08 PM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.com)
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To: editor-surveyor

Send the little puke to Gitmo indefinitely.


26 posted on 09/27/2007 10:04:30 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)
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To: editor-surveyor

BTTT


27 posted on 09/28/2007 2:55:14 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: NormsRevenge
Another “religion” of peace.
28 posted on 09/28/2007 6:42:56 AM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: LdSentinal

We can thank the idiot Edward Abby, (may he rest in pieces) for starting this crap. It is refreshing to see that the Fed is finally having success in prosecuting these nut cases.


29 posted on 09/28/2007 7:10:21 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: editor-surveyor; NormsRevenge; tubebender; SierraWasp; Jeff Head; george76; BOBTHENAILER

Good news.

Eco Terrorism is terrorism. If it causes lost of jobs, property and endangers Americas, it is no different than Islamofascist Terrorism.


30 posted on 09/28/2007 7:16:04 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Waiting for the Next H$U to fall!)
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To: Grampa Dave
Eco Terrorism is terrorism. If it causes lost of jobs, property and endangers Americas, it is no different than Islamofascist Terrorism.

Very well said. Terrorism is terrorism, plain and simple. Fanatical devotion to the cause of the day is no excuse. Maybe the cause can be furthered from prison.

31 posted on 09/28/2007 8:08:51 AM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: editor-surveyor
A tree hugging root sucker, got his reward!!


32 posted on 09/28/2007 8:19:33 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: blackie

G’mornin Blackie!

You’re up kind of early for an old sorehead, aren’t you? ;o)

Give that hotrod pickup a run around the block for me, ok?


33 posted on 09/28/2007 8:35:56 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: NormsRevenge
McDavid's attorney argued he was a victim of entrapment because the FBI informant provided money and help to buy the items.

Interesting, I consider any member or supporter of ELF, ALF, or the Communist party, a terrorist. Had these terrorists had the smarts or the patience to infiltrate the government bureaucracy (even the FBI), they could have accomplished their disruption of the lives of Joe Sixpack and neighbors and gotten paid for it as well as running a "carbon offset" scam business on the side.

34 posted on 09/28/2007 10:41:32 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (The hyphen American with the loudest whine gets the grease.)
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To: SAJ
Waterboard the jerk, immediately, and find out who his co-conspirators are/were.

Don't think it's necessary.

FBI was probably there from the start. ELF has used Internet anonymity to isolate cells and avoid detection, but it has it's weak point, they don't know each other personally, so a ringer can make contact on the net and set up the true believers by offering money or materials.

35 posted on 09/28/2007 10:53:56 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (The hyphen American with the loudest whine gets the grease.)
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To: biscuit jane; Randy Larsen
"OMG I was just in Foresthill last month !"

I know someone else that was there too!!! (grin)

36 posted on 09/28/2007 11:17:26 AM PDT by SierraWasp (WOW!!! We've Move(d)On.org from Hillery's Testicular Lock Box, to Hillery's Chinese Hsu Box!!!)
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To: BOBTHENAILER; Grampa Dave; Randy Larsen; tubebender; Carry_Okie; forester; hedgetrimmer; ...
"Maybe the cause can be furthered from prison."

I hope you are NOT jesting! When I was very young I worked in one of CA's near-by state prisons... It WILL further their assinine cause!!! Send the bastard to "Club Gitmo" instead, please!!!

Better yet... given 'em a defective bungi cord and push 'em off the Foresthill bridge into the dry lake bed of Lake Auburn!!! Ha Ha Ha!!!

37 posted on 09/28/2007 11:25:41 AM PDT by SierraWasp (WOW!!! We've Move(d)On.org from Hillery's Testicular Lock Box, to Hillery's Chinese Hsu Box!!!)
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To: SierraWasp; Grampa Dave
I hope you are NOT jesting!

Not jesting at all, merely wishing the typical "prison treatment" of these sensitive, eco-types, be visited upon this puke daily, for the next 10-20 years.

38 posted on 09/28/2007 1:51:09 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: SierraWasp

You wouldn’t be one of those Foresthill granola munchers now, would you?


39 posted on 09/28/2007 2:18:55 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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To: editor-surveyor; calcowgirl; ElkGroveDan
No! I'm just one divide to the south, like in Georgetown Divide! It's a whole different watershed, viewshed or anyother kind of GovernMental EnvironMental "shed" you wanna dream up! Hey!! What about a Granolashed???

Our local Pot Dr. and her lawyer husband just got convicted in Fedrul Court so they'll prolly flee the cuntry before their sentence gets a period put on it!!!

So many so-called "Medicinal Marijuana" gardens are gittin ripped off these days that it's a whole new criminal enterprise and is making my community into a drug culture! I don't like dat!!!

Seems to be a problem on all the Sierra "divides" in the ridiculous "Schwartzenpeckerhead's Sierra-Nevada CONservancy!!!"

40 posted on 09/28/2007 3:15:00 PM PDT by SierraWasp (WOW!!! We've Move(d)On.org from Hillery's Testicular Lock Box, to Hillery's Chinese Hsu Box!!!)
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