Thread: Environmental Terrorism?

Earth Liberation Front arsonist sentenced to 13 years

By JEFF BARNARD
The Associated Press
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Stanislas Meyerhoff has admitted to being a member of the Earth Liberation Front.


EUGENE, Ore. — Declaring fires set at a police station, an SUV dealership and a tree farm acts of terrorism, a federal judge Wednesday sentenced the first of 10 members of a radical environmental group to 13 years in prison.


U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken commended Stanislas Meyerhoff for having the courage to "do the right thing" by informing on his fellow arsonists after his arrest. But he declared his efforts to save the earth by setting fires were misguided and cowardly, and contributed to an unfair characterization of others working legally to protect the environment as radicals.....


Meyerhoff, 29, has admitted to being a member of a Eugene cell of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) known as The Family, which was responsible for more than 20 arsons from 1996 through 2001 in five Western states that did $40 million in damage.

Meyerhoff was involved in fires at a Eugene police substation, a Eugene SUV dealership, an Oregon tree farm, federal wild-horse corrals in Wyoming and California, and a Vail, Colo., ski resort[/quote]

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