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Trumped-Up Eco-Terrorism: An Arsonist's Tale
New York Times ^ | Tuesday, February 12, 2002 | By JAMES HIBBERD

Posted on 02/11/2002 9:02:30 PM PST by JohnHuang2

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1 posted on 02/11/2002 9:02:31 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
As he saw it, "that was my land — that was my entrance to the preserve."

That's how "environmentalists" view "the wilderness"... as their personal land.

2 posted on 02/11/2002 9:13:38 PM PST by samtheman
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To: Grampa Dave; Appy Pappy; Nunya Bidness; Editor-surveyor; AuntB; FarmFriend; Blackie...
Bump
3 posted on 02/11/2002 9:19:11 PM PST by ThreePantherEightyDuce
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To: samtheman
Ego driven criminals such as you find at the Earth liberation Front perhaps. I am happy they caught this idiot.

Like ELF, he is a threat to even people with sincere concern for the environment. I hope they throw away the key to this guy's cell.

4 posted on 02/11/2002 9:25:23 PM PST by ThreePantherEightyDuce
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To: samtheman
IMHO the judge should have given him about 50 years in solitary. He has his ego to keep him company.
5 posted on 02/11/2002 10:54:30 PM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: JohnHuang2; 1Old Pro; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; a_federalist; abner; aculeus; alaskanfan...
Just another arrogant leftist is all that I see here.
6 posted on 02/12/2002 6:42:51 AM PST by editor-surveyor
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So he's saying he wasn't affiliated with environmentalist groups yet he was on his own environmental Jihad. Sounds like he's just taking the blame personally since he's already in jail. This protects his enviral activist fellow travellers.
7 posted on 02/12/2002 6:49:59 AM PST by Brett66
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To: Brett66
Thanks for the warning, Fellow traveller is some of their buzz words, to alert each other.
9 posted on 02/12/2002 7:10:28 AM PST by Issaquahking
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To: Brett66; editor-surveyor; Noumenon
This oarticular terrorist should have been stopped by a 7.62 mm 180grain pice of lead inserted through the skull. perhaps he operated as a loner but his taking the fall is a tried and true tactic of terrorists and criminal enterprises. He is just another leftist criminal. The only difference is he got caught and took the rap without talking.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

10 posted on 02/12/2002 7:24:03 AM PST by harpseal
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To: editor-surveyor
THE GUY IS A CERTIFIED NUTCASE! "My personal entrance to the preserve?" Wow!
11 posted on 02/12/2002 7:26:18 AM PST by B4Ranch
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The following says it all about this arsonist:

He set that first fire on April 9, 2000, at a large home under construction near the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, because, he said, the house was spoiling his favorite jogging trail. As he saw it, "that was my land — that was my entrance to the preserve."

"The house was a direct affront to me personally," said Mr. Sands, himself the owner of a modest house bordering the preserve.

In my area some of the most hostile enviral anti human Nazis are recent people in the valley. They own large homes with good views. Their homes are made of sacred wood. Within weeks of moving in the enviral anti other human virus strikes and the newcomers join the no new homes Nazis with money, time and a venegance! Of course that drives the value of their homes right up when no new homes are allowed.

12 posted on 02/12/2002 7:38:47 AM PST by Grampa Dave
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To: JohnHuang2
BTTT
13 posted on 02/12/2002 8:16:50 AM PST by hattend
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To: editor-surveyor
Thanks for the heads up,

But as one arson grew to eight...

Sounds more like a serious nut, not even an activist.

14 posted on 02/12/2002 8:30:12 AM PST by cascademountaineer
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To: ThreePantherEightyDuce
Stop the extreme, wacko-left, enviro-nazis, terrorist's, now !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

The Right Of The People To Keep And Bear Arms Shall Not Be Infringed !!

An Armed Citizen, Is A Safe Citizen !!

No Guns, No Rights !!

Molon Labe !!


15 posted on 02/12/2002 8:44:07 AM PST by blackie
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To: samtheman
Yes, it is the same when western cattlemen use public land or when mining companies lobby to keep centuries old mines laws in effect so they can strip federal lands of natural resources for pennies on the dollar.

Timber and oil are other resources that are getting increasingly in short supply and we have wealthy private corporations and individuals who take much more than they give.

To make a case for conservation: Creating land that has time to return to early prarie conditions where erosion and native fauna and wildlife abound is a good thing. Allowing cattle and sheep to graze the land should come at a fair price. It is public land that these people exploit. If it were private land you can bet they would pay a fair price.

Not every piece of gold or every gallon of oil needs to be extracted and put into a barrel to have worth. Leaving a small reserve of "all" our natural resources is sound plannig for the long term security of our country. No crise exits that threatens our way of life so much that we can't save 2 or 3% of our resources in their natural state.

Our state governments and the federal government should collect a real fee from logging companies and others who exploit the public lands and not have oversight of various industries by former ceos and board members.

16 posted on 02/12/2002 9:18:20 AM PST by Abbalon
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To: editor-surveyor
Bump!
17 posted on 02/12/2002 9:19:49 AM PST by Aquamarine
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To: Abbalon
If you want to 'preserve' some land, get out your checkbook and buy it.

L

18 posted on 02/12/2002 9:26:51 AM PST by Lurker
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To: Abbalon
It is public land that these people exploit.

Geez, I just did a quick review of the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8 which lays out what the goobermint can and can't do and nowhere in that do I find any authorization from "we the people" for the Federals to own one square foot of "National Forest", "National Park" or any other such.

All that land should be thrown open. Get the goobermint out of the land-owning business.

Public land, my patootie.

20 posted on 02/12/2002 10:00:34 AM PST by metesky
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