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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:15:12 GMT, "gatt"
<LiveFromTheClocktower@gfy.com> wrote:

>
>"Paul J. Berg" <pjberg@webtv.net> wrote in message 
>news:1153931234.005174.129260@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> >From Willamette Week (Portland, Oregon) ~ July 26, 2006
>>
>> Accused Earth Liberation Front arsonist Tre Arrow hopes at least 10
>> donors will contribute $100,000 apiece for his bail from a Canadian
>> jail.
>
>Most environmentalists don't hang on to that kind of money or have it to 
>throw around.

Really?

Streisand, DiCaprio, and Al Bore don't have money???

>I figured after 9/11 the whole "ecoterrorism" paranoia would die down.  You 
>can't terrorize a bulldozer or some other piece of logging equipment, 

Do tell, sand in the crankcase of a $50K + Cat isn't terror eh?

>and  eco"terrorists" do not kill people 

When Chelsea Gerlach and her  "true belieevrs" burned the 2 Elk Lodge
in Vail they easily could have killed people, from EMTs to firemen.

What kind of bullshit Monkey-wrencher are you?

>and very few believe in violence against 
>other people.  

So its not violent to burn up SUVs on some person's car lot???

>So calling them "terrorists" is Limbaughesque propaganda.

Tell ya what, I'll torch yer  Jeep off and you say that with a
straight face.

>Arrow's an accused arsonist.  Osama bin Laden is a terrorist.

So arson isn't terror?

Ever been the victim of arson?

Ever seen what an almost finished home looks like after it gets burned
to the ground?

Imagine what that might feel like if it were YOUR home?

>But, even if there are eco types out there with that kind of money--say, 
>Nader--giving it to Arrow would be a bad investment because he's likely to 
>skip bail or something.  I mean, the dude got popped for shoplifting a 
>friggin' pair of boltcutters while he was hiding from the FBI.  Not exactly 
>the kind of guy you lend a hundred grand.

Funny, if you wanted eco-mayhem he's precisely the type.

>> I wonder if Portland businessman and former ELF spokesman Craig Rosebraugh 
>> will put up a $100,000?
>
>He'd be one to do it, but I doubt he has it. The ELF is idealistically cool, 

What?!?!??!

Are you put of your fucking mind?!

>and nondestructive civil disobedience works, 

Like spiking trees so loggers get hurt?

>but stunts like arson are a 
>setback to every step of progress the environmentalists make.
>
>-c 
 
Curt doesn't think so.