Posted By: Mira Trapper
Warped Justice????????? - 08/24/08 12:07 PM
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:36:20 -0700
Subject: Admitted ELF arsonist vacationing at GA island resort (Savannah Morning News)
THIS is one crazy mixed up society!!!!!!!!!!
Savannah Morning News
OPINION
Warped justice
Friday, August 22, 2008 at 12:30 am
http://savannahnow.com/node/556360
DOMESTIC TERRORISTS in this post 9-11 world should go to prison, not
to Tybee Island.
Unfortunately, a federal judge in Michigan has a warped view of crime
and punishment, and Coastal Georgia residents must keep their guards
up as a result.
On Wednesday, Tybee officials were understandably shocked to learned
that Frank Ambrose, 33, who admitted that he set a fire that caused
more than $1 million in damage at Michigan State University, won't be
headed to a federal penitentiary.
Instead, the Detroit man will first spend a week at a Tybee beach
house, rented by his parents.
Gee, did the judge order him to use sun block, too? Talk about kicking
sand in the public's face.
Apparently, a judge bought the idea, planted byAmbrose's attorney in a
court filing, that Ambrose deserved time "in a relaxed vacation
setting" before the arsonist was sentenced Sept. 22.
That's outrageous. With permissive jurists like that on the bench,
federal and local law enforcement officials have to work twice as hard
to protect Americans from terrorists who wish them harm.
Ambrose is looking at five years behind bars for his role in a 1999
fire at Michigan State. But that's not all the damage he allegedly
caused.
In a plea agreement with prosecutors, he admitted roles in a dozen
acts of property destruction in Michigan and Indiana. No wonder Tybee
officials are spooked, and you can't blame them.
Ambrose apparently earned a cushy vacation on the coast by cutting a
deal. He has something investigators want: Information.
He's alleged to have connections with the Earth Liberation Front, a
notorious group of violent, enviro-wingnuts. In return for spilling
the beans, he gets to frolic in the surf.
It's good that Ambrose is helping the feds squeeze these whackjobs. He
deserves some consideration.
But if his family wants to get together near the water before he gets
locked up, what's wrong with Lake Michigan?
Let's hope the FBI keeps a close watch on his comings and goings at
Tybee, and especially keeps him away from matches.
Meanwhile, if a federal judge in Georgia ever suffers an extreme lapse
in judgment and wants to send a homegrown terrorist on a special side
trip, we hear Kalamazoo is a lovely place.
Subject: Admitted ELF arsonist vacationing at GA island resort (Savannah Morning News)
THIS is one crazy mixed up society!!!!!!!!!!
Savannah Morning News
OPINION
Warped justice
Friday, August 22, 2008 at 12:30 am
http://savannahnow.com/node/556360
DOMESTIC TERRORISTS in this post 9-11 world should go to prison, not
to Tybee Island.
Unfortunately, a federal judge in Michigan has a warped view of crime
and punishment, and Coastal Georgia residents must keep their guards
up as a result.
On Wednesday, Tybee officials were understandably shocked to learned
that Frank Ambrose, 33, who admitted that he set a fire that caused
more than $1 million in damage at Michigan State University, won't be
headed to a federal penitentiary.
Instead, the Detroit man will first spend a week at a Tybee beach
house, rented by his parents.
Gee, did the judge order him to use sun block, too? Talk about kicking
sand in the public's face.
Apparently, a judge bought the idea, planted byAmbrose's attorney in a
court filing, that Ambrose deserved time "in a relaxed vacation
setting" before the arsonist was sentenced Sept. 22.
That's outrageous. With permissive jurists like that on the bench,
federal and local law enforcement officials have to work twice as hard
to protect Americans from terrorists who wish them harm.
Ambrose is looking at five years behind bars for his role in a 1999
fire at Michigan State. But that's not all the damage he allegedly
caused.
In a plea agreement with prosecutors, he admitted roles in a dozen
acts of property destruction in Michigan and Indiana. No wonder Tybee
officials are spooked, and you can't blame them.
Ambrose apparently earned a cushy vacation on the coast by cutting a
deal. He has something investigators want: Information.
He's alleged to have connections with the Earth Liberation Front, a
notorious group of violent, enviro-wingnuts. In return for spilling
the beans, he gets to frolic in the surf.
It's good that Ambrose is helping the feds squeeze these whackjobs. He
deserves some consideration.
But if his family wants to get together near the water before he gets
locked up, what's wrong with Lake Michigan?
Let's hope the FBI keeps a close watch on his comings and goings at
Tybee, and especially keeps him away from matches.
Meanwhile, if a federal judge in Georgia ever suffers an extreme lapse
in judgment and wants to send a homegrown terrorist on a special side
trip, we hear Kalamazoo is a lovely place.