After reading Georgia10's excellent diary on the talkinghead attacks on Michael Moore, I realized that the demonization of the Left has been stepped up and the
War on Libruls is shifting into high gear, just in time for the elections and also a nice distraction from Abramoff, you betcha:
Eleven people were indicted in a series of arsons, claimed by the radical groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, in five Western states, the Justice Department said Friday.
The 65-count indictment said the suspects are responsible for 17 incidents in California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, including sabotaging a high-tension power line, in a conspiracy that dates back to 1996.
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In Eugene, two defendants, Jonathan Christopher Mark Paul, 39, and Suzanne Nicole "India" Savoie, 28, were both ordered held without bail, pending further hearings.
A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Eugene accused Paul, a firefighter, of setting firebombs that burned down a horse slaughterhouse in 1997. The ALF claimed responsibility for that fire, which caused an estimated $1 million in damage.
Savoie, who works in a group home for the developmentally disabled, is accused of serving as a lookout for a fire in 2001 that destroyed offices of a lumber mill. The ELF claimed responsibility for that fire.
You will notice that these two people [one of them a dangerous radical who works in a home for the disabled whose crime was being a 'lookout'] are being HELD WITHOUT BAIL -- and they are being called 'ecoterrorists' -- picked straight up from Limbaugh's script. You will also notice that no one seems to have been physically injured because of these attacks. Yet these folks are being held without bail.
I don't support or justify this kind of violent protest, but when have you ever heard of someone being denied bail for property damage? I think the gloves are coming off in dealing with the right's real perceived enemy -- anyone to the left of them. Us.
Crosspost at http://www.claudialong.com/...