Letters to the Editor
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Ignorance continues its crusade
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. A democracy requires an educated populace and a trial by a jury of one's peers is necessary for the principle of "equal rights for all" to manifest itself in society. I am sorry for Ms. Waters and for her family, but I fear that until a solid education is as valued in this country as fancy clothes and a big house, prejudice and emotion will guide the decisions of its citizens.
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The bank receipt alone, showing that Waters was 60 miles away from Seattle just 45 minutes before the explosion
It wasn't 45 minutes before the explosion, it was 45 minutes before the speculated meeting time. The explosion came later.
ANYONE can draw money from an ATM if they know the PIN, like Brianna's "partner." IF she was really at the ATM, there would be a tape of her: all bank ATMs have tapes now. Since her lawyers didn't produce that tape of her going to the ATM, I'd say she didn't, her baby daddy did it to provide an insufficient alibi.
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United Slaves of America... cont'd.
cosmic mojo, automaton extraordinaire: "be that as it may, but when that act is an effort to rob me of my American rights "..blahbity, blah,blah....
How is blowing up a building that engages in acts against nature robbing you of your "american rights"?
Here's the deal: some of us believe in nature, some of us believe in man-made law. some of us believe that the laws of nature (trees, bees, etc.) are above those laws written many, many years ago and manipulated throughout the years by those in power. I for one think that my rights as a human are robbed simply by being a "citizen" of the U.S.
You feeling "intimidated" by a bldg being blown up is sad. What makes me even sadder is that forests continue to be demolished, the fish we eat has pharmaceuticals in it, vivisection labs continue to exist, people continue to die long, tortuous deaths caused by cancer which in turn is caused by man-made toxins in the environment.
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Now I Know Why They Made Us Do Word Problems in Math
A woman needs to travel 60 miles in 45 minutes. How fast, on average, does the eco-terrorist need to drive? Be sure to remember in your calculations that the woman is an eco-terrorist.
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So @Herb
Are you saying that loss of property is really equivalent to loss of human life?
But what about the human beings who have lost their lives to terrorism?
Aren't you cheapening the value of human life by advocating that a crime against property be prosecuted as actual terrorism?
I thought conservative morality honored the value of human life and set human life far above any material concerns.
I guess I was wrong.
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Mistakes
Her first mistake was going to Evergreen. Second, hooking up with a looser. Lastly, getting involved with EF/ELF.
Did she not think that someday this all may come crashing down? She had choices, she chose poorly.
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How is blowing up a building that engages in acts against nature robbing you of your "american rights"?
I have the right to study genetics as long as it isn't prohibited by law. I have the right to move freely on campus without being blown up for having different views.
You know the old saying: "your right to protest ends at my nose." It means you may protest all you want and I'll support your right to protest, but when your acts start to limit my own rights, you're breaking the law and limiting my rights, not simply protesting. You're using violence to rob me of my rights: that is terrorism. And as a very liberal socialistic pinko, I"ll stop you. We all have rights and I support the preservation of everyone's right to have their OWN views, Not the use of violence to force everyone to follow one view.
You know a sick boy killed 32 students and professors at Virginia Tech almost a year ago and it's agreed he was a sick killer. This beautiful blonde risks people live by buring down a campus killer and she's made into a Pop Hero. Bull. She's a sicko who uses violence to make people obey her, just like the TEch killer.
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How is blowing up a building that engages in acts against nature
er, buildings do not engage in acts, lol.
That belief that one building is part of the problem, rather than a community meeting space for countless differnt people and views is part of the problem. That belief that innocent collateral can be sacraficed for the sake of YOUR personal views is wrong. The building did nothing, yet you think it's OK to ruin it and anyone who inconveniently happens to be in there at the same time. Just to make YOUR point.
The building, nor any of it's inhabitatanst were NOT engaged in "acts against nature." (lol, sounds like what they used to say about homosexuality--You sound about as shrill and intolerant as those extreme fundamentalist haters)
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Wow.
She could spend as much as two decades behind bars for allegedly holding a walkie-talkie.
You really want to say that? That devlaues everything else the author wrote about this case. She's not going to spend two decades behind bars for holding a walkie-talkie. She's going to spend two decades behind bars for being found guilty of helping burn down a lab.
Do bank robbers get sentenced to prison "just for driving a car"? No. They go to jail for driving the getaway car used to flee the scene of the crime.
Don't be disingenuous. If there are real concerns about her guilt, those clearly should be raised. But to make it seem like the crime itself is unimportant... That makes it seem like you're not credible.
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@Cosmic Mojo
The arson occurred in 2001. Very few (if any) places keep video records for 6 years. Where were you on the night of May 21, 2001? Can you prove it? This is actually a frightening case for anybody. The prosecutor's had conflicting testimony from participants who were testifying to get reduced sentences and absolutely no physical evidence, while the defense had evidence showing that their client was not near the scene of the crime. Yet they scared the jury into convicting by using the idea that she was a member of a terrorist plot.
If this can happen to a sympathetic middle class, white, American woman, imagine how hard it must be for a dark-skinned Muslim man to defend himself against charges of terrorism?