Sunday, May 27, 2007

An Abuse of the Patriot Act?....I Don't Think So...




A federal Judge, U.S. District Judge Anne Aiken, in Eugene, Oregon declared that four of the nine fires linked to Kevin Tubbs (shown left with 2nd member of the eco-terrorism groups, ELF & ALF to plead guilty on conspiracy and arson charges) were "acts of terrorism" and sentenced the 38 y/o radical to 12 years and seven months in a federal prison.

"Fear and intimidation can play no part in changing the hearts and minds of people in a democracy," said Aiken in her ruling.

For his part, Tubbs said, "I am disgusted, sickened, saddened and totally ashamed that I played any part in any of the incidents." Tubbs had hooked up with the radical groups back in 1995 when he joined an ELF encampment dedicated to stoping the U.S. Forest Service from logging trees that had been burned by fire. After that, Tubbs regularly picked targets, recruited members and built incendiary devices, although when it came to actually setting the fires, he generally served as a look-out, or driver, according to U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdahl.

OK, so America's domestic WoT provisions have been used, for the first time, on non-jihadist terrorists.

Can anyone doubt that ELF and ALF are terrorist organizations?

Of course not! How could we doubt that? They carry out terroristic acts against U.S. citizens and entities all the time!

So, why shouldn't they be treated as.....well, as terrorists?


SEE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070525/ap_on_re_us/ecoterror_sentence
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2 comments:

  1. Dan O.May 27, 2007 at 4:26 PM

    So, why shouldn't they be treated as.....well, as terrorists? -JMK

    They absolutely should. In the Judges own words "Fear and intimidation can play no part in changing the hearts and minds of people in a democracy," she uses the definition of terrorism: the use of terror and violence to intimidate. THAT makes them terrorists.

    Once again people take a word, in this case terrorism or terrorist, and because it has been so heavily used and linked to 9/11 and other Islamic-based terrorist acts, start equating that word to only mean acts done by Islamic extremists. Totally ignoring the true definition of the word and the fact it can apply to any such act by anyone.

    Another example of MSM influence on people's thinking processes.

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  2. JMKMay 27, 2007 at 10:16 PM

    That's the thing Dan O, there are so many people looking hard for ANY "abuses" of the Patriot Act, that they'll latch onto anything.

    To me, the folks at ELF & ALF and the KKK ot the Black Israelites are all terroristic organizations, and when they engage in violence, they should be treated as such.

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