ELF arsonist gets 13 years
 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275379,00.html

Oregon Ecoterrorist Sentenced to Over 12 Years in Prison for Arsons

Friday, May 25, 2007


EUGENE, Ore. ? A federal judge sentenced a member of an ecoterrorism cell to more than 12 years in prison, rejecting arguments that he played a minor role in arsons aimed at saving animals and protecting the earth.

U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken declared that four of nine fires linked to Kevin Tubbs ? a forest ranger station, a police substation, a dealership selling SUVs and a tree farm ? were acts of terrorism.

"Fear and intimidation can play no part in changing the hearts and minds of people in a democracy," Aiken told Tubbs before sentencing him Thursday to 12 years and seven months in federal prison.

Tubbs, 38, is the second of member of The Family, a Eugene-based cell of the radical groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, to plead guilty to conspiracy and arson charges. The group is suspected in 20 arsons in five states that caused $40 million in damage.

His voice choked with emotion, Tubbs read from a statement saying he was deeply sorry for causing harm to others and that he was motivated by hopelessness and desperation over the cruelty to animals and destruction of the earth.
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"I am disgusted, sickened, saddened and totally ashamed that I played any part in any of the incidents," he said.

Tubbs met the group of radical environmentalists in 1995 as they joined an encampment dedicated to stopping the U.S. Forest Service from logging trees burned by a fire, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdahl.
Tubbs regularly picked targets, recruited others and built incendiary devices, Engdahl said. When it came time to set the fires, he usually left that to others, serving as a lookout or driver, the prosecutor said.


Here is a timeline of ELF's actions since 1997:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin..._Front_actions

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Goddamn ! You also got those bastards over there ? Over here they're called ALF : Annimal Liberation Front ! Those freaks attack fast food chains ; slaughterhouses ; ...
And, they don't like big trucks either ! :fdance:

Frenzy
Belgium, Europe

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Good!!! Crazy Oregonians.:giggling:

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is he going to be the husband or the wife in prison?

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HAHA! Have fun dip****! I hope he drops the soap!

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When he gets out i bet he buys a Hummer :jump:

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Send that fawkin Oregonian bastard to GITMO!!!!!



Let's see him moderate Elcova from there.:jump:

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rofl @ that pic :clapping:

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Yep, but until he gets out he is only going to be giving them.

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HOO HOO OOH OOOHWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
:jump: :jump: :jump: :jump: :jump: :jump:

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Yeah, only because he got caught. :rolleyes: If he's really sorry he'd be ratting out all his little greenie buddies so we can make examples of them too. :rant:

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X2. And imagine what he'd really be saying if he never got caught.:lame:

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so will this effect christmas?

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No, I'd be the one torturing the shit out of those eco-terrorists. And then I'd make sure the reporters got some, too.