"Radical gets 22 years in domestic terrorism
LANSING, Mich. - A radical activist who helped set a $1 million fire to protest research on genetically modified crops was sentenced yesterday to nearly 22 years in prison - even more than the prosecution recommended.
Marie Mason decided to "elevate her grievances beyond the norms of civilized society" through fire and destruction, US District Judge Paul Maloney said. The case, which was prosecuted as domestic terrorism, was "about an abandonment of the marketplace of ideas," he added.
Of course, when NATIONS LIE to INVADE and OCCUPY other peoples it is called LIBERATION, not terrorism!!!!
The explosion and fire caused more than $1 million in damage to Michigan State University's Agriculture Hall on New Year's Eve 1999. In her plea agreement, she also admitted causing another $3 million in damage through other acts from 1999 to 2003, including destroying homes under construction in the Detroit area and Indiana and setting fire to two boats owned by a man who formerly raised minks.
The 47-year-old Mason, of Cincinnati, had acted on behalf of the radical group Earth Liberation Front, or ELF, which has been implicated in a spate of similar crimes, mostly in the West. She had pleaded guilty in September to conspiracy and arson after reaching a deal with prosecutors. The prosecution had been aided by Frank Ambrose, her former husband, who cooperated with the FBI.
The investigation was cold until spring 2007, when a man looking for scrap cardboard found gas masks, an M-80 explosive, maps, and antigovernment writings in a suburban Detroit trash bin.
??? Sounds PLANTED!!!
They belonged to Ambrose, who apparently was trying to shed remnants of his past. The FBI searched his home, and he became an informant, blowing the whistle on himself and Mason and going undercover to record 178 conversations with other activists. At MSU, Mason and Ambrose targeted a campus office that held records on research related to moth-resistant potatoes for poor parts of Africa.
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