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In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
  • @JennyLynnnF

    Clearly a miscarriage of justice. The bank receipt alone, showing that Waters was 60 miles away from Seattle just 45 minutes before the explosion ought to have convinced a reasonable jury of her innocence. It doesn't sound like Waters was convicted by a jury of her peers, but rather by a jury of poorly educated Americans unfamiliar with reason and logic.

    Posts like this show that poorly educated Salon readers think they know it all, when really they lack even the basic reading and comprehension skills to read and understand the first two paragraphs of an article like this:

    In the early morning hours of May 21, 2001, a group of five men and women dressed in dark clothing and carrying backpacks crept close to the Center of Urban Horticulture on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. One of the intruders cut open a window of a ground-floor office; another climbed through it and placed a digital alarm clock wired to a 9-volt battery and a model-rocket igniter in the drawer of a filing cabinet. Next to the cabinet, he filled plastic tubs with gasoline. He set the timer and climbed back out the window.

    Not long after, at about 3 a.m., a university security officer driving on his rounds saw "billowing smoke and flames" rising from the building.

    Nevertheless Salon readers feel qualified to slander juries, and declare a miscarriage of justice, when they know nothing about the case.

    Now... about Creation Science...