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Title: SUV arsonist Jeffrey "Free" Luers released from prison (Charleton Street in Eugene, Oregon currently closed because of suspicious device)
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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
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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.
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I took part in the action to protest the cutting of the trees in 1997. And I happened to just by chance come across this scene still currently in process. My friend Jeffrey Luers who just got out did not take part in this tree-sit that turned into a riot. They are using a remote robot to remove the device.
Nine years sounds very harsh. He must have pissed off the money people - corporate amerika.
Yeah, he had had a clean record whe he was convicted and given an initial sentence of 23 years.
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.
I had a friend who went to jail recently, the first time in his life. He's about fifty. 5 marijuana plants. It's all about money.
All the idiot did , was at the least, double the carbon footprint in the manufacture of those vehicles. LIke burning houses in the forest They rebuild them. If he truly loves the forest, he would leave it.
----------------------------------------------------------- To a moron like you, undoubtedly. You wouldn't be so compassionate if it were your property set afire and destroyed. Arson is a cowardly, viscious crime and deserves a harsh sentence.
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
The SUVs actually were refurbished and sold as salvage, and no one was hurt in that action.
You sound like a statist. Do you have your jackboots on?
A thoughtful, considerate, intelligent person would have realized that and not committed the crime.
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
Eugene Police responded to a suspicious pipe bomb in the area of Broadway and Charleton around 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Officers blocked roads in the area. As of about 7:30 p.m. the incident was cleared. http://downtowneugene.kval.com/node/67921 My my, the things that happen by coincidence.
That does nothing to excuse the crime or make it less objectionable. Arson is a heinous crime. An innocent passerby or firefighter could easily have been injured or worse for no good reason.
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
Yeah I recall the f@@k.....I saw his vegan/compost rantings a few yrs ago ....(somehow following a link from the hilariously flattened Rachael Corrie pancake incident)....where he was exhorting all his "massive" army of guerrilla gardener dork loser pizza delivery boy career "warriors" ...... BWWAAHHHAAA!!!!.....to work to overturn the evils of the capitalist system. I don't think your "William Wallace wannabe" punk ass POS bud will be joining you here on this site....he'll be too busy firing up the masses to smash storefronts in between the weed smoking binges with his welfare check.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
You fall for this firefighters and cops are heroes crap. You're stupid and it shows.
You sound like a moron. Do you possess enough sense not to piss away your government salary at the race track and casino?
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
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 ...
Esse Quam Videri.
Why aren't you humping yukon tonight?
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.
Innocent passerby you fookin idiot! Key.....riced, you are STUPID!
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
ethel's ex; You fall for this firefighters and cops are heroes crap. You're stupid and it shows. Yeah freddy boy? Well you are a piece of shit and it shows
Esse Quam Videri.
Maybe Yukon's period is late and they are awaiting the preggers test's results before doing the nasty again. ;-)
Esse Quam Videri.
In the world of these filthy freaks, any loss such as you mention is acceptable as collateral.....those "innocents" were guilty of some horror against Mom Earth..... clothes made from innocent cotton plants cut down ground up and mutilated....maybe rubber soled shoes created via the rape and forced "bloodletting" of rubber tress just when they were entering the prime of their lives.....savagely manipulated and whored out by force to support evil carbon dioxide generating human beings.....
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
I planted trees when I was twelve years young. I'll tell you about it sometime.
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 de3cades, and no forest defender who does non-violent protest would do that sort of thing. Yeah sure, you just support them in all material ways. It was F ing Foreman's "Earth FIRST!" dick lickers who were supposedly at fault, but it really doesn't matter because ALL of you ecoNAZIES are the same. While You're TRYING to defend ARSON you mealy mouth POS. Spit ...
Esse Quam Videri.
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:)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
I planted trees when I was twelve years young. I'll tell you about it sometime. While taking hot showers together in some max security hard time joint I hope. Spit ...
Esse Quam Videri.
Tell us all ok? Sounds positively mesmerizing......we'll wear out the edges of our seats on this one. Do break it up into multiple sessions so it doesn't use up too much bandwidth.
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
Heh, I had a leadership position at Skookum reforestation as a fire fighter working on forest fires in the late 80s and early 90s, and have planted hundreds of thousands of trees in the forest. What you say does not bother me. My work record is a matter or record with the Oregon Employment division. Take any spin you want, because it does not matter. The facts are just not with you. ;-D
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.
Yes.....hundreds of thousands of trees.....of course:).....maybe millions of thousands.....or trillions of hundreds!!!! Sounds like you are the Wilt Chamberlain of knee proned tree daddies. Check this out Dog:):).....Mike probably gave all several hundred thousand little tree children names as well......
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
You can't spin arson.
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
Mike what's the sort of kinda obama looking avatar represent?
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
Sounds like you are the Wilt Chamberlain of knee proned tree daddies. Big deal he was a hoe-dad. So in "his" teeny bird like "brain" pan that makes ARSON alright? These ecoNAZIES are insane a$$holes. In saner times we'd just pith them. That would save many species, including our own.
Esse Quam Videri.
You are now confirmed and set to full posting privelages. Welcome.
Firefighters are about the only good ones in government. At least I always thought that. What do you have against fire fighters?
Mertz is a government parasite who can't stand people who actually risk life and limb to protect the community. Many are unpaid volunteers.
What's the difference between Racism_Boot's mouth and anal pore? There isn't any, they both spew gas and feces.
LOL!!!! I'm with you on the idea:):)
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
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?
Death to everybody who does not get outta my way.
True. One of Bush's hard working family values folks get much less time for killing America children run over by a drunk driving fat ass SUV.
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#2. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
#4. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/freedoms_just_another_word_for.html
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
#6. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
#7. To: Fred Mertz, Ferret Mike (#2)
Nine years sounds very harsh.
#8. To: Ibluafartsky (#7)
#9. To: Ibluafartsky (#7)
#10. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
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.
#11. To: Ibluafartsky (#10)
Suspicious Pipe Bomb Cleared Submitted by Staci Vollmer on Thu, 2009-12-17 19:50
#12. To: Ferret Mike (#8)
The SUVs actually were refurbished and sold as salvage, and no one was hurt in that action.
#13. To: Ferret Mike (#3)
#14. To: Ibluafartsky (#12)
An innocent passerby or firefighter could easily have been injured or worse for no good reason.
#15. To: Fred Mertz (#9)
You sound like a statist. Do you have your jackboots on?
#16. To: faggot mikey aka Ferret Mike, fred mertz (#4)
ARSON
#17. To: Mad Dog (#16)
#18. To: Mad Dog (#16)
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#19. To: Fred Mertz (#14)
You fall for this firefighters and cops are heroes crap.
#20. To: Fred Mertz, Ibluafartsky (#14)
I; An innocent passerby or firefighter could easily have been injured or worse for no good reason.
#21. To: Fred Mertz (#17)
#22. To: Fred Mertz (#17)
#23. To: Ibluafartsky (#12)
An innocent passerby or firefighter could easily have been injured or worse
#24. To: Ferret Mike (#18)
I also was a woods worker 12 years planting trees and worked on wildland forest fires.
#25. To: faggot mikey aka Ferret Mike (#18)
Heh, actually, I agree with you. Spiking is a foolish and cowardly act. I have never supported that tactic.
#26. To: Ferret Mike (#18)
Spiking hurts blue collar workers.
#27. To: faggot mikey aka Ferret Mike, Fred Mertz (#24)
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I also was a woods worker 12 years planting trees and worked on wildland forest fires.
#28. To: Fred Mertz (#24)
I planted trees when I was twelve years young. I'll tell you about it sometime
#29. To: e_type_jag (#26)
#30. To: e_type_jag (#26)
#31. To: Ferret Mike, Mad Dog (#29)
#32. To: Ferret Mike (#29)
Take any spin you want, because it does not matter.
#33. To: Ferret Mike (#21)
#34. To: e_type_jag, faggot mikey aka Ferret Mike (#31)
Yes.....hundreds of thousands of trees.....of course:).....maybe millions of thousands.....or trillions of hundreds!!!!
#35. To: open mind (#0)
#36. To: Fred Mertz (#14)
You fall for this firefighters and cops are heroes crap.
#37. To: A K A Stone, Fred Mertz (#36)
Firefighters are about the only good ones in government. At least I always thought that. What do you have against fire fighters?
#38. To: Mad Dog (#34)
In saner times we'd just pith them.
#39. To: Ferret Mike, Mad Dog (#30)
It is just not a sound tactic
#40. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
Nine years sounds very harsh. He must have pissed off the money people - corporate amerika.
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