Prosecutors said the Earth Liberation Front aimed the attack at the office of a professor who the group mistakenly believed was genetically engineering trees.Well, what she believed should count for something, shouldn't it?
And I believe she should be locked away for many, many years. And that should count for something.
Let us weep for this misguided woman who is stricken with the pathetic need to feel self-righteous about a non-issue.
Humans have been genetically engineering plants and animals for millenia. The grains we eat are altered from wild varieties, and the resultant abundance allows people to be vegetarians if they so wish, rather than gnawing on leftover animal bones. I'm not sure if violin strings still have to be made from cat guts anymore, but they used to be. So her profession is in debt to animal exploitation. Maybe she feels guilty about that.
I read the article and couldn't find their rationalization for setting fire to corrals. The gov't rounds up wild horses and burros and tries to adopt them out just so they don't have to shoot them. Like I said, it's a pathetic syndrome, endemic among college grads in the liberal arts. My guess is she doesn't know a photon from a proton, and couldn't integrate equations to save her skin. And I am serious about weeping for her ignorance. And after we weep for her, lock her up for another 4 years!