Maternity doesn’t bring Get Out of Jail Free card (Briana Waters)

The News Tribune ^ | March 9, 2008 | Editorial

[Digital Sniper]

In fact, they were merely hybridizing fast-growing populars as an environmentally friendly alternative to logging in forests.

Populars? I think they mean "poplars."

That said, I agree that maternity is no get-out-of-jail free card. It's a shame that Waters' daughter will spend many years apart from her mother, but both parents should use the time to impress upon the little one why Mommy is in jail and why the things Mommy did were wrong.

[Bigh4u2]

Waters

[F-117A]

Guilty!

[pepsionice]

The side note to this entire case...the prosecutors likely went to her early on and probably offered various deals to lessen the time in jail or toss charges. At NO point, did she want to deal.

What did the prosecutors want? Names and places of ELF. She knows the structure and the extent of guilt among the Northwest ELF folks. She could have given over a dozen names and connected the dots to several major ELF crimes over the last decade. Throughout this entire process....with her jail time at stake, and her kid....she choose not to negotiate with the prosecutor. The tactic was to make the jury feel sorry for her and just walk away. It almost worked....but she will likely get five hard years in prison...and get twelve months off for good behavior. The prosecutor will likely go to her after six months of prison and offer another deal....which she will turn down.

I’m guessing right now that she is still sitting there in disbelief...and really wanting to dump names badly....but she won’t. Its a great story that someone ought to tell the entire story.

[jazusamo]

Yes, but twelve of them made plea bargains and several of those cooperated and ratted out others. One committed suicide in jail and another four are fugitives. If they're ever caught they will do a lot of time.

I believe her minimum sentence will be five years and she will serve most all of it because it's a federal case.

She really blew it by not plea bargaining. She was probably the least culpable and only participated in the one arson, it seems.

Here are some of the others sentences:

Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff - (5-23-07) - 13 years
Kevin Tubbs ----------------- (5-24-07) - 12 years, 7 months
Chelsea Dawn Gerlach ------- (5-25-07) - 9 years
Darren Todd Thurston---------(5-29-07) - 3 years, 1 month
Suzanne Nicole Savoie--------(5-31-07) - 4 years, 3 months
Sarah Kendall Tankersley-----(5-31-07) - 3 years, 10 months
Joyanna Lynn Zacher---------(6-01-07) - 7 years, 8 months
Nathan Fraser Block----------(6-01-07) - 7 years, 8 months
Daniel Gerard McGowan-----(6-04-07) - 7 years
Jonathan Paul-----------------(8-01-07) - 4 years, 3 months

An older article in the Eugene Weekly News with pics and some background.

[FormerACLUmember]

Shiny, happy ultra-violent psychopaths. Momma Briana Waters has absolutely no remorse and needs to be locked away from normal humans for as long as possible.

[pandoraou812]

Good they all belong in jail. Let her sit there & think of all she did. I have NO pity for her or ELF. I do pity the child & hope the father can raise her.

[Recon Dad]

Hippies. They’re everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
Eric Cartman

I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about ‘protectin’ the earth’ and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate ‘em! I wanna kick ‘em in the nuts!
Eric Cartman

[jazusamo]

Agree...I believe some of her marxist professors at Evergreen State College in Olympia convinced her that what she would do was absolutely right but she’s the one going to prison.

[jazusamo]

It’s very sad about the little girl, she’s got a strike against her already. Hopefully the Dad realizes it and does the right thing with her.

[pandoraou812]

Yes it is very sad for the little girl. I wonder if the dad knew what his wife was up to? Maybe he can move on & find a new life...Prayers for both of them

[bboop]

That’s awesome. Boy, I wouldn’t go to jail and leave my CHILD to protect some other perp. I bet she’ll start to wonder about her loyalty to hairballs at some point, too.

[FormerACLUmember]

Yes indeed, Evergreen State College is a major “academic” Marxist toilet, a curse upon civilization.

[Emperor Palpatine]

"Waters...provided the car and served as the lookout in this strike against the biosphere."


So? When you raid a cathouse, you arrest the piano-player, too.

[Emperor Palpatine]

GUILTY!!!!!

[nyyankeefan]

screw this bee-atch...just because she is pregnant is no excuse....of course with lib/dems ~ a male would get the same sympathies!!!

[MaxMax]

There is no such plea as Ignorance in court.
She damn well knew what she was doing.

And yes you arrest the Piano Player. They usually know more about
whats going on then the whores themselves.

[Publius6961]

I wonder if that piece of slime ever imagined her own daughter as a "crispy critter" as a result of some other psycopath and her "cause"?

[FormerACLUmember]

I wonder if that piece of slime ever imagined her own daughter as a "crispy critter" as a result of some other psycopath and her "cause"?

My personal experience with these liberal "activists," is that they are utterly bereft of even the most minimal insight. They are incapable of a simple rational discussion.