"The indictment tells a story of four-and-a-half years of arson, vandalism, violence and destruction claimed to have been executed on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front or Earth Liberation Front, extremist movements known to support acts of domestic terrorism," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said at a news conference today.
Appearing with Gonzales, FBI Director Robert Mueller declared, "Terrorism is terrorism, no matter what the motive."
"There is a clear difference between constitutionally protected advocacy ... and violent criminal activity," Mueller said.
"I can tell you, these people are thugs," said former U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, who often railed against so-called "eco-terrorism" when he chaired the House of Representatives' Forests subcommittee.
"The image I'm sure they'll try to present as their defense is that they were Robin Hood saving society from a ski area building a lodge," McInnis said. "And as a result of their actions, of course, the ski area did build their log lodge, but with twice as many logs as they would have in the first place."
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They very much remind me of the Weather Underground of the 1960's. Mostly products of middle class backgrounds who when confronted with the possibility of long jail sentences simply disappeared. We need to come down so hard on this woman the others will have the fear of God put into them. It's not about just burning something down, it's about burning something down in the name of a cause. How soon before a ski lodge full of people gets torched?