Originally Posted By: Hankster
The Hammonds were convicted under a different law. The eco-terrorists that you think are actually environmentalists were convicted under the Patriot Act.

That Patriot Act was extended by Obama last June, btw. If there are any more ELF acts of domestic terrorism and they're caught, the Obama DOJ will hopefully get them too.


The Hammonds have been imprisoned under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, an ostentatiously get-tough bill – passed after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building – favored by congressional Republicans.
And now it's catching the Republican fuckadoodle base.
And you can't see the irony here?