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     Kommentar till en text av VERN HUMPHREY
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-=> Quoting Vern Humphrey to Frank Scheidt <=-

 FS> GM> Now, here's your chance to be factual, Frank.  Where's the evidence
 FS> GM> that environmentalists LOVE spiking trees?  Give the facts, Frank.
 FS> GM> Name the people involved.  Show that they did what you claim.
 FS> GM> Show that they're environmentalists and not someone trying to
 FS> GM> discredit environmentalists.  Show that all environmentalists are
 FS> GM> involved in this activity, or most of them, or even more than a few
 FS> GM> and that they LOVE to do this.  Be careful with the facts, Frank.
 
 FS>All of that has been shown in the papers long ago, Gary.  It's
 FS>obvious that someone must love to do something if he's willing to
 FS>climb trees to drive spikes into them.  That's not an action
 FS>anyone would do if he didn't really want to do it.

 VH> *****************************************************
 VH> ENVIRONMENTALISTS CONVICTED

 VH> Many environmentalists have been convicted in a court of law on
 VH> diverse criminal and civil charges.

 VH> October 3 1996. Helena, Montana. Earth Firster Ronald J. Constable,
 VH> 27, was sentenced in federal court to one year in a federal
 VH> penitentiary, $200 in restitution, one year of supervised probation and
 VH> 500 hours of community service for tree spiking in an October 1993
 VH> incident near Essex, Montana (see 1993). Constable was permanently
 VH> prohibited from entering any state or federal public lands. In June
 VH> 1996 he became the first person to be convicted under a 1988 federal
 VH> law against tree spiking. An undercover agent found Earth First
 VH> literature in his possession. Constable admitted affiliation with Earth
 VH> First. "Tree-spiking conviction a first," Helena Independent Record,
 VH> Saturday, October 5, 1996, by Mark Goldstein, p. 1A.

 VH> April 1, 1994. Kalispell, Montana. District Court Judge Michael Keedy
 VH> sentenced two brothers, Earth Firsters Daniel Sean Carter and Michael
 VH> Thomas Carter, for spiking trees, cutting down billboards and
 VH> vandalizing logging equipment. Daniel pleaded guilty to 2 of 4 counts
 VH> of felony criminal mischief, received nine years in prison, suspended,
 VH> ordered to pay $5,884 in restitution and 200 hours community service.
 VH> Two charges of cutting down signs were dismissed. Michael pleaded
 VH> guilty to 3 of 12 counts of felony criminal mischief, was given 19
 VH> years prison with all but 90 days in county jail suspended, ordered to
 VH> pay $34,473 in restitution and 200 hours community service. Other
 VH> charges of cutting down billboards were dismissed. Michael was also
 VH> convicted of vandalizing equipment belonging to Schellinger
 VH> Construction Company. The crimes were committed between December 1989
 VH> and July 1991. The brothers worked as carpenters. "Carter brothers to
 VH> pay $40,000 for spiking trees," Hungry Horse News, Thursday, April 7,
 VH> 1994, by Becky Shay, p. 25.

 VH> 8/11/93. Spokane, Washington. Earth Firsters John P. Blount, 32, of
 VH> Masonville, Colorado, and Jeffrey C. Fairchild, 27, Ashland,
 VH> Wisconsin, were sentenced for convictions on two counts of tree spiking
 VH> the Post Office Creek timber sale in Idaho in March 1989, two counts of
 VH> destruction of federal property and two counts of conspiracy. Blount
 VH> was handed a 17-month jail term and fined $1,000. Fairchild was given
 VH> 60 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. Both were ordered to pay a
 VH> one-quarter share of the $19,639 in damage to spiked trees. A third
 VH> defendant, Daniel A. LaCrosse, 36, Salem, New Hampshire, was charged
 VH> with conspiracy to spike trees and conspiracy to destroy government
 VH> property. Two other defendants, Arvid Hartley and Neil McClain were
 VH> both sentenced to 90 days home detention and ordered to pay their share
 VH> of the $19,639. "Clearwater Forest Trial Opens In Idaho Tree-Spiking
 VH> Case - Lawyer Denies Intent To Harm Anyone," Lewiston Tribune, June 8,
 VH> 1993, by The Associated Press, p. 5A. See also, "U.S. tree-spiker
 VH> sentences `surprisingly' stiff," Vancouver Sun (British Columbia),
 VH> August 17, 1993, by Neal Hall, p. C1.

 VH> 6/4/93. Missoula, Montana. Arvid E. Hartley and Neil K. McLain pleaded
 VH> guilty in federal court to misdemeanor charges of spiking trees in
 VH> Idaho. They agreed to testify against three others accused in a
 VH> tree-spiking March 29, 1989. Accused were John Blount, Jeffrey C.
 VH> Fairchild and Daniel A. LaCrosse. Hartley and McLain both admitted
 VH> that they put metal spikes in trees with the intent to hinder a timber
 VH> sale in the Post Office Creek area of the Clearwater National Forest
 VH> near Powell, Idaho. "Two Plead Guilty To Spiking Trees To Stop Sales In
 VH> Idaho," Portland Oregonian, Saturday, June 5, 1993, from correspondent
 VH> and wire reports, p. B8.

 VH> 8/13/92. Cove/Mallard, Idaho. Three Earth First activists pleaded
 VH> guilty to criminal trespass and spent 9 days in jail for locking
 VH> themselves to road-construction equipment in Nez Perce National Forest.
 VH> Tree-spiking discovered in old-growth timber stand nearby. The three
 VH> had been charged with resisting arrest, obstructing justice and injury
 VH> to a vehicle. Each was fined $100 and sentenced to 60 days in jail.
 VH> "Earth First! Activists Get Out of Jail - Trio Had Chained Selves To
 VH> Road Construction Gear In Idaho; Spiked Tree Found Nearby," Rocky
 VH> Mountain News, Thursday August 13, 1992, by Associated Press, p. 1.
 VH> ************************************************************

 VH> Copyright 2001 Associated Press
 VH> July 27, 2001

 VH> VANCOUVER, Wash. - The Earth Liberation Front's press office in
 VH> Portland, Ore., has released a statement from a group claiming
 VH> responsibility for spiking hundreds of trees in the Gifford Pinchot
 VH> National Forest.

 VH> A statement faxed from the anonymous group Friday said the spikes were
 VH> designed to block logging on 99 acres of old-growth forest in the
 VH> Upper Greenhorn timber sale. The forest is home to spotted owls, bear,
 VH> lynx, wolf, goshawk and other wildlife, the statement said.

 VH> ********************************************

 VH> VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Reuter - A radical U.S. environmental
 VH> group said Tuesday it will send trained saboteurs to disrupt the
 VH> logging of an ancient rain forest off Canada's west coast.

 VH> The California-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it will
 VH> dispatch a crew of "trained ecotage agents" by boat to drive long
 VH> nails into trees and sabotage logging equipment in Clayoquot Sound on
 VH> Vancouver Island.

Thanks, Vern, for not being as lazy as *I* am.  Of course you're 
wasting your time since "Gary Moore" (his current name) will 
"accidentally" not see what you've posted.  However, in the event 
he *does* want to see it I've not deleted any of your posting.

... Afraid of banks?  Why not give it to me for safekeeping!

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