Letters to the Editor
-
Maybe I'm being too picky here
"She could spend as much as two decades behind bars for allegedly holding a walkie-talkie."
What the hell is that? The whole point of your article is that Waters could be innocent of the charges. This statement is a pointless minimization of the crime. She would not be locked up for "holding a walkie-talkie." She would be locked up for aiding and abetting an arson that caused over 2 million in property damage, plus destroying valuable environmental research.
Stick to your point. This one statement hurts your argument.
Nonetheless, thank you for the article. It's clear to me that this campaign by the Bush Justice Department is not as much about catching arsonists as it is about sending a chill through law-abiding environmental organizations.
It's like torture. They know it doesn't work - the real purpose of it is to spread fear in the innocent population of Iraq and beyond to squash dissent against the United States.