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Blade-Less Swiss Army Knife Debuts As Weapon Laws Tighten Status: Not Logged In; Sign In International News See other International News Articles Title: SUV arsonist Jeffrey "Free" Luers released from prison (Charleton Street in Eugene, Oregon currently closed because of suspicious device) Source: oregonlive URL Source: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/inde ... rsonist_jeffrey_free_luer.html Published: Dec 17, 2009 Author: staff Post Date: 2009-12-17 22:37:26 by Ferret Mike Keywords: None Views: 8455 Comments: 56 PORTLAND -- Radical environmentalist Jeffrey "Free" Luers has been released from prison after spending more than nine years behind bars for setting three SUVs on fire at a Eugene dealership. Luers was initially sentenced to almost 23 years in prison. That was a sentence many considered disproportionately harsh because no one was injured. The Oregon Court of Appeals reduced the sentence in 2007. A spokeswoman for the Oregon Department of Corrections said he was released from prison on Wednesday. Luers' co-defendant, Craig "Critter" Marshall, accepted a plea bargain and served less than five years in prison. -- The Associated Press Eugene Poice are in the process of using a remote robot to remove a device with "characteristics of an explosive device" from Broadway and Charleton Street with a remote robot. This is occurring at the site of the riot over the cutting of 60 large trees which was the largest story in Eugene, Oregon in 1997. Buildings nearby have ben evacuated and streets nearby closed until the device can be removed. Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread   Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 56. #2. To: Ferret Mike (#0) Nine years sounds very harsh. He must have pissed off the money people - corporate amerika. Fred Mertz  posted on  2009-12-17   22:47:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #4. To: Fred Mertz (#2) http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/freedoms_just_another_word_for.html Oregon prison springs eco-saboteur 'Free' by mistake, then takes him back By Bryan Denson, The Oregonian The man who drew the longest prison sentence in U.S. history for eco-sabotage walked out of prison this morning. After years of appeals, Jeffrey M. Luers, known to Eugene’s anarchist clan as “Free,” was just that. But just as quickly, he was sent back to prison. The Oregon Department of Corrections acknowledged today that it mistakenly allowed Luers to take advantage of a new law, House Bill 3508, which grants reduced sentences for certain classes of inmates. Luers’ sentence for arson made him ineligible for early release, said prisons spokeswoman Jennifer Black, in Salem. “It’s a mistake we wish hadn’t happened,” she said. “We’re reviewing processes and hoping that it just does not happen again.” Luers was released from Columbia River Correctional Institution in Northeast Portland this morning and given 24 hours to check in with his parole officer in Lane County. He checked in this afternoon, where he learned of the error. Authorities took the 30-year-old radical environmentalist back to prison, a rude reversal for those who worked years to get Luers out. The day began with Luers’ supporters writing on the Friends of Jeff Luers Web site: “We are still pinching ourselves.” Luers’ appellate lawyer in Salem, Shawn Wiley, weighed in with an e-mail comment to The Oregonian: “This day is long overdue. Jeff is a kind, thoughtful, intelligent young man, and our community benefits much more from his presence in it rather than behind bars." But their joy was short lived. Luers' saga began in 2001, when Lane County Circuit Judge Lyle Velure sentenced him to 22 years, 8 months in prison after finding him guilty of two crimes in Eugene -- attempting to set fire to a gasoline tanker owned by a petroleum distributor, then firebombing three pickup trucks at a Chevy dealership. The sentence drew gasps because it was by far the stiffest punishment handed to an eco-saboteur in the United States. Across the nation, environmental activists and civil libertarians expressed outrage. At that time, Luers’ crimes were paltry compared to those committed by better known eco-saboteurs. Rod Coronado, for instance, who waged a multi-state arson campaign against the fur industry, was sentenced to less than five years in federal prison. After Luers was sent to prison, arsons by underground groups such as the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front ceased in Oregon, once a hotbed of environmentally motivated firebombings and vandalism. Law enforcement authorities said Luers’ long sentence served as a deterrent to those who might consider setting fire to SUVs, mink ranches or Forest Service installations. In a phone interview from prison in September 2001, Luers told The Oregonian that the gravity of his sentence did not strike him until he lay in a prison bunk one day realizing his parents might die before he is freed. Luers told the newspaper that he set fire to the pickups to protest gas-guzzling vehicles and the disproportionate amount of pollution they belch into the air. He described the arson at Eugene’s Romania Chevrolet as a final, desperate act of an environmental crusade that began benignly with letters to politicians, door-to-door work with the Sierra Club and tree sits to prevent logging. “It was an escalation to a level I’d never gone before and I could never live down,” Luers told The Oregonian. “At that point, for me, I could no longer say I was an activist. In my mind, I’d taken it to the next level.” The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled in February 2007 that Lane County must re-sentence Luers because Velure erred by convicting him of two counts of arson and imposing consecutive prison terms under Oregon’s mandatory-minimum sentencing law. Lawyers negotiated an agreement that re-sentenced Luers to 10 years in prison, which would have brought him home this Christmas. Passage of House Bill 3508 this year gave Luers even more good news. He was one of the roughly 2,000 Oregon prisoners to get notice recently that they were eligible for a fractional reduction of their sentence, Black said. For Luers, this meant freedom a few months early. But today’s foul-up nixed his freedom. Luers is scheduled for release on Dec. 16. Opps, he was taken back almost immediately for a few more days. Many are somewhat peeved about this. Ferret Mike  posted on  2009-12-17   22:57:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #16. To: faggot mikey aka Ferret Mike, fred mertz (#4) ARSON There is absolutely NO defense for ARSON you miserable lefturd a$$wipe. As a person who has relatives and friends who are firefighters there are not words strong enough to say how much I despise you, and your ilk ,and this miserable creep, whose major crime you try to defend. I also had a friend who was almost killed many years ago when he was running a mill in northern Kalipornia, and it hit a spike that one of you ecoNAZIES creeps had left in a tree to "defend" the F ing forest. He was scarred for life. But you vermin didn't stop him, as soon as he was able he got a metal detector and worked mills for the rest of his life You are nothing but vermin cornflake girl. Spit ... Mad Dog  posted on  2009-12-17   23:12:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #18. To: Mad Dog (#16) (Edited) Heh, actually, I agree with you. Spiking is a foolish and cowardly act. I have never supported that tactic. I also was a woods worker 12 years planting trees and worked on wildland forest fires. Spiking hurts blue collar workers. There is no excuse for anyone to use that tactic. This has been my position for two decades, and no forest defender who does non-violent protest would do that sort of thing. Ferret Mike  posted on  2009-12-17   23:14:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #26. To: Ferret Mike (#18) Spiking hurts blue collar workers. Blue collar workers huh? If the spike broke a chain off and it maimed the icky white collar supervisor out having a look that's ok though. Gaaackkkk you TARD freaks are repulsive to the core:) e_type_jag  posted on  2009-12-17   23:25:12 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #30. To: e_type_jag (#26) Actually, I would not protect information about someone's spiking action. It is just not a sound tactic, and does the movement more harm then good when it happens. Ferret Mike  posted on  2009-12-17   23:31:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #39. To: Ferret Mike, Mad Dog (#30) It is just not a sound tactic Yeah Mike....felonies are like that sometimes.....just not "sound". Say....speaking of felons.....how many Hummers never hit the assembly line thanks to Jeff's punkish arson actions?....for which he likely paid for by having his bunghole diameter stretched to tree trunk dimensions while playing wife/biotch in the slam?....chuckles.....he sure showed those nasty normal people a thing or two, really made a differnce huh? e_type_jag  posted on  2009-12-18   1:00:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #44. To: e_type_jag, a k a stone, all, maddog, fred mertz (#39) Activist who set fire to SUVs released from prison By Jack Moran The Register-Guard Appeared in print: Friday, Dec 18, 2009 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- News: Local: Story -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the second time this year, state prison officials on Wednesday released Eugene environmental activist and convicted arsonist Jeffrey “Free” Luers from custody. This time, it was no mistake. “It seems that they are going to let him stay out this time,” said his attorney, Lauren Regan of the Civil Liberties Defense Center in Eugene. On Oct. 2, prison officials set Luers free from the Columbia River Correction Institution in Portland because they erroneously believed that he qualified for a sentence reduction under a new “earned-time” policy. Luers, 30, checked in with his parole officer in Eugene a few hours later. That’s when he learned of the state’s blunder, and was told that he would have to spend another 21/2 months in prison. Regan said that fiasco made Luers less than certain that he would remain a free man following his early morning release Wednesday. “He was cautious about being too optimistic about getting out,” Regan said. “But he is out, and he’s unpacking his stuff now. He’s attempting to adjust back to a normal life.” Regan said Luers plans to live in Eugene and take classes next spring at Lane Community College. He eventually intends to apply to the University of Oregon’s landscape architecture program, she said. “He’s really focused on trying to get back the 10 years of his life that he lost,” Regan said. Luers had been behind bars since June 2000, when Eugene police arrested him in connection with a fire that burned three sport utility vehicles at the former Romania truck lot, and an attempted arson at Tyree Oil Co. in Eugene. In 2001, former Lane County Circuit Judge Lyle Velure sentenced Luers to 22 years and eight months in prison. Many activists characterized Luers as a political prisoner, and considered the punishment disproportionately harsh because no one was injured and the damage to the SUVs was estimated at only $28,000. Among the groups that questioned whether Luers’ sentence was politically motivated were Eugene’s Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International. In 2007, the Oregon Court of Appeals overturned Luers’ sentence, ruling that Velure improperly sentenced him to back-to-back prison terms for each of the 10 felonies he was convicted of committing. Lane County Circuit Judge Jack Billings restructured the sentence in 2008, which allowed Luers to be freed this month. Luers told Billings during a court hearing last year that he never intended to instill fear or a sense of victimization in the people he targeted, but instead wanted to promote change through “radical struggle.” “I can now say with all honesty that I was wrong to think that arson would inspire social change,” Luers said in court. Luers and his co-defendant, Craig Andrew Marshall, were arrested minutes after the Romania fire was reported. Eugene police had followed the pair from a storage unit where Luers lived and saw the men park near the Romania lot on Franklin Boulevard. Investigators found incense sticks, wooden matches, thread and sponges that matched two firebombs that failed to ignite in May 2000 at the Tyree Oil depot in the Whiteaker neighborhood. One of the Tyree bombs was placed under the fuel tank of a fume-filled tanker truck. Had it ignited, the device could have produced significant damage, investigators said. Marshall pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson and possession of a destructive device in the Romania case. He served more than four years in prison. http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24269466-41/luers-prison-eugene-romania-fire.csp just wanted to share the local story with you all. I spoke to him a bit ago and he is doing well and seems to be quite happy and glowing. Ferret Mike  posted on  2009-12-18   12:53:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #51. To: Ferret Mike (#44) 10 felonies he was convicted of committing. He should have been given life without parole! Ibluafartsky  posted on  2009-12-19   2:49:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #53. To: Ibluafartsky (#51) He should have been given life without parole! Says the resident Nazi... Fred Mertz  posted on  2009-12-19   2:51:07 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #55. To: Fred Mertz (#53) Says the resident Nazi... Says the fookin resident government parasite, dunce! Ibluafartsky  posted on  2009-12-19   2:58:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   #56. To: Ibluafartsky (#55) What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? You really are stupid. Fred Mertz  posted on  2009-12-19   3:00:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply   Replies to Comment # 56.         There are no replies to Comment # 56. End Trace Mode for Comment # 56. Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest

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