Die Hippy Die!
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.
Die Hippy Die!
Good news! Hope the judge has the stones to give him a max sentence.
Thanks for the ping, George.
Send the little puke to Gitmo indefinitely.
BTTT
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.
Good news.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I know someone else that was there too!!! (grin)
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!!!
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.
You wouldn’t be one of those Foresthill granola munchers now, would you?
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!!!"
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