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Jeff "free" Luers will be released on December 16th having served nine and a half years hard time

category international | environment | news report author Saturday December 12, 2009 18:12author by Feudal castrato Report this post to the editors

23 year old eco activist Jeff was convicted and sentenced to 22 years hard time for the evil crime of setting fire to 3 SUV's in a personal staged act of resistance to make a very strong public statement about global warming.
Jeff in prison garb
Jeff in prison garb

Eco activist Jeff Luers will finally be freed on December 16th 2009

23 year old Jeff was convicted and sentenced to 22 years hard time for the evil crime of setting fire to 3 SUV's in a personal staged act of resistance to make a very strong public statement about global warming. (the SUV's were later fixed up and sold on)
To give you an idea of how political this sentence was, the local attempted axe murderer was sentenced to 14 years and an ex murderer who committed several serial rapes of underage girls got 14 years in the same court.

Meanwhile as mankind finally comes round to the idea that we have to take some drastic action to halt the increase of man made CO2 in the atmosphere, Jeff had to languish years of his young life away in prison with murderers and felons all because he also believed that people needed to be made aware of this, albeit with a little more passion and conviction and using slightly more direct methods for his "act of resistance". Meanwhile in Copenhagen, well paid fat politicians fake it and get brownie points for selling out the environment so their corporate buddies can pollute and profit and keep their heads in the trough for just a little longer.

Send Jeff a post card or an email in solidarity. He spent eight years of his life in prison in the cause of environmentalism. He was treated like a terrorist but he went to great lengths to ensure he didn't hurt anybody. In the US (and increasingly elsewhere), if you are an enviromental activist or an animal rights activist, you are top of the terrorist list because capitalists hate nothing more than people who will damage expensive property for a cause. Much worse than a murderer or rapist because they just kill people or rape them and life is cheap these days isn't it?

Full Details and background on the site:
http://freefreenow.org/index.html

author by Hellmanpublication date Sat Dec 12, 2009 19:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Of course, this case didn't happen in Ireland. Here, we have a retired school teacher in prison, sentenced to nine months in jail for damaging some bird nets in a protected environment. If only we had some child rapists we could compare her sentence to. I wonder if someone made a bit of a career out of raping, oh I don't know, altar boys or young children in care, what the reaction of the courts would be? Or if we had someone who knew about such crimes but covered them up to protect the rapists, what would their sentence be?

They'd get more than a woman who damaged some nets wouldn't they?

Anyway, good news that an activist is walking out of jail.

author by Tpublication date Sat Dec 12, 2009 18:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The case of Jeff "free" Luers is one of huge injustice. If ever there was an example of a political prison it was Jeff Luers. The capitalist system meated out this insane sentence to him because he dared protect the environment. This was the stuff what we used to hear about in Stalinist USSR and the sending of people to gulags except it happened in the USA.

Jeff's persecution signalled the start of labelling and treating environmentalists as terrorists. Indeed his sentence predated the War of Terror by just a few months and part of the vicious assault on people's rights and freedoms.

author by pat cpublication date Sat Dec 12, 2009 18:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This is good news. Glad to hear that a POW is being released because that is what Jeff is. If you are a child rapist you get a lesser sentence than someone who has damaged 3 cars. Thats capitalist "justice".

 
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