"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
