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.
I think you just described all liberals. ;-)
I “heard” they were all upset thinking that human genes were going to be merged with corn genes so’s the CIA/NSA/FBI could listen in on their morning plans and schemes through the “ears of corn” in their GMO’ed Corn Flakes!!! WoooooooooooooooooooHooooooooooooooooooo!!!
ROFL! I have a whole new image of SW... a long beard, peace sign necklace, and tie-dyed shirt.
We really should have been collecting all of these names over the years. LOL!
Well! Think again!! I ride a hog and wear a Hell’s Angle’s jacket with a scuzzy female on the back with a log chain fastened to a clamp around her neck at one end and the hog’s frame at the other end!!! Born to be WILD is tattooed in my forehead!!! With three exclamation marks after it!!!
I’m so confused!
How do you keep that green eye-shade on? ;-)
He’s telling the truth.
The fine doesn’t really matter if he’s broke.
“I think you just described all liberals. ;-)”
I guess that I did. I love to tell them face to face that their political agendas are really acts of economic or green/eco terrorism against Americans who don’t agree with them.
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