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Violinist mom charged with being US environmental terrorist
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| 4/1/2006
| Staff
Posted on 04/01/2006 6:23:44 PM PST by wjersey
A mother that gives violin lessons will face trial in the northwestern US state of Washington on charges she was an environmental terrorist, prosecutors said.
Briana Waters, 30, of the famously liberal California city of Berkeley, has pleaded innocent in a Seattle federal court that she that fire bombed a horticulture center in 2001.
A US district court judge allowed Waters to remain free pending the start of her trial in June, but ordered that she turn in her passport and have her whereabouts monitored electronically.
Waters was the first person charged in connection with an attack that destroyed the Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington in May of 2001, according to Emily Langlie of the US Attorney's Office.
The fire was one of a series of arson attacks in the Pacific west that police believe were committed by militant environmental activists linked to the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front.
"This is just one step as we attempt to bring to justice those responsible for the UW Urban Horticulture fire," said John McKay, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington.
"As we move toward the five-year anniversary of that devastating blaze, I applaud the investigators who have worked so doggedly and diligently to put the pieces of the puzzle together."
Federal prosecutors indicted 13 people last year in connection with arsons branded as "domestic terror."
Two of those people were part of "an overarching conspiracy" to fire bomb the horticulture center, prosecutors said.
A mother and a self-employed violin teacher, Waters' background included being a "tree-sitter" who perched in branches to save ancient trees from logging.
Waters would face a mandatory minimum punishment of 35 years in prison if convicted as charged with arson and using a destructive device to commit a violent crime.
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To: the anti-liberal
Is he wearing a purse!?
As long as it isn't...gasp leather. LOL
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:34:17 PM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Doing the job illegals shouldn't do, paying the taxes illegals don't pay.)
To: HEY4QDEMS
Ah yes, she's probably the type to fiddle while Rome burns......
22
posted on
04/01/2006 6:35:52 PM PST
by
umgud
(12 gauge, the original pepper spray)
To: Dallas59
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:36:47 PM PST
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Doing the job illegals shouldn't do, paying the taxes illegals don't pay.)
To: martin_fierro
Looks like she did a great job of ironing her husband's shirt.
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:36:47 PM PST
by
wjersey
To: johniegrad
Well it sure as hell isn't a Man sack.
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:36:50 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: johniegrad
A "boy bag"?
Is this some kind of 'metrosexual' or effeminate man thing?
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:38:16 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
To: wjersey
If he has a job, the guy wearing the purse looks like he works in a coffee shop or flower shop.
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:38:58 PM PST
by
fso301
To: cripplecreek
"Well it sure as hell isn't a Man sack."
LOL!!!
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:39:28 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
To: the anti-liberal
A "boy bag"? Is this some kind of 'metrosexual' or effeminate man thing? What do you think?
To: cripplecreek
Apparently, teaching violin exonerates arson these days.
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:40:49 PM PST
by
July 4th
(A vacant lot cancelled out my vote for Bush.)
To: johniegrad
"What do you think?"
I think it's silly.
But hey, that's just me...
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:41:23 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
To: Lurker
The one in the front, or back?
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:41:33 PM PST
by
vpintheak
(What's worse, and liberal, or a know it all posing as a Conservative?)
To: the anti-liberal
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:42:01 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: wjersey
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:42:06 PM PST
by
359Henrie
(NASA needs one more moon rock, its in Mecca.)
To: the anti-liberal
Is he wearing a purse!? Yeth, it's european.
I can't stand those 'man purses' with the shoulder straps that have replaced briefcases these days either.
Even when I used to carry a laptop on business trips I carried the case by the handle .
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:43:53 PM PST
by
Looking4Truth
(Radical Muslims and Illegal immigrants: Too stupid to create so they invade or destroy.)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:44:09 PM PST
by
the anti-liberal
(Hey, Al Qaeda: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent)
To: Lurker
Thanks L. Are you fast or what? I found it copied the location and came back to the thread prepared to see if I could post a picture (not having ever done so), and viola there it was courtesy of L. First picture impression, She looks 15 and her skull is probably still full of mush.
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:44:45 PM PST
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: StACase
Mr. 'pleated pants' with the man purse looks like that Stuart character from Mad TV. Are all people in Seattle this pasty looking because of the weather?
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:45:20 PM PST
by
Looking4Truth
(Radical Muslims and Illegal immigrants: Too stupid to create so they invade or destroy.)
To: the anti-liberal
A marsupial pouch !
.....
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:45:40 PM PST
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
To: vpintheak
The female in the back.
L
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posted on
04/01/2006 6:46:17 PM PST
by
Lurker
(In God I trust. Everyone else shows me their hands.)
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