Read this article very carefully and then compare it with the FACTS! Note how the article does NOT mention the very Jewish names of the perpetrators! Note how the newspaper posts a photo of these terrorists so called supporters thus attempting to elicit sympathy from the reader. These people ARE terrorists and they are selective, they only target non-Jews!
HERE are the facts about these terrorists who incidentally also were behind the burning of Ernst Zundel's house.
HERE are the facts about these terrorists who incidentally also were behind the burning of Ernst Zundel's house.
Now why would harmless animal rights activists want to burn down Zundel's house?
10 [JEWISH] activists or terrorists? Judge weighs arguments
By Bill BishopThe Register-Guard
Published: Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Politics played no role in prosecutors' efforts to label as "terrorists" the 10 co-conspirators charged with using arson to punish what they perceived as animal cruelty and environmental degradation, Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Peifer told a federal judge on Tuesday.Politics played a big role in the government's decision to brand the defendants as "terrorists" after they were arrested in the nation's largest investigation of radical underground environmental activists, defense lawyers insisted.
Politics or no politics, U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken told the lawyers that her decision on whether their crimes amount to terrorism will be an exercise in applying statutes, not in applying labels.
Acknowledging the complexity of her task, Aiken said her ruling may not answer every question about the terrorism issue in every one of the defendants' cases in advance of their individual sentencing hearings. Instead, she indicated her ruling is likely to provide a basic framework for her to consider the issue in each case.
If Aiken finds the federal terrorist statute applies to property crimes against government or private property, it could increase each defendant's potential sentence four- to sixfold. However, prosecutors are not asking for extra time and are adhering to previous plea bargains with recommended sentences from almost 16 years to a little more than three years.
Under federal law, Aiken has broad discretion in deciding a sentence for each, regardless of any plea deal or even her own ruling on whether the extra terrorism penalty could be applied.Six of the 10 defendants and about 80 spectators jammed Aiken's courtroom as the five-hour hearing began with Peifer outlining the government's arguments.
He focused on the plain wording of plea deals in which the co-conspirators admitted they intended "to influence or affect the conduct of government" or to retaliate against government action - one of the facts required for a crime to be terrorism under federal law.
While the defendants "attempted to sanitize their motives" with "proclamations of lofty humane goals," their crimes were "the essence of terrorism," Peifer said.
Although defense lawyers contend that the terrorism law is intended only for criminals who target people and not property, Peifer said the federal terrorism statute does not require proof of a substantial risk of injury or death in crimes committed by the group.
He noted that incendiary devices were placed next to a large propane tank in one arson and next to a building's natural gas line in another.
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