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ELF Fugitive Sentenced for Drug Charges in China

Green Is The New Red | 29.11.2009 23:57 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Social Struggles | World

Justin Solondz, an environmental activist who was wanted by the FBI for “eco-terrorism” charges tied to the Earth Liberation Front, has been sentenced to 3 years in a Chinese prison for manufacturing drugs. Back in June I reported on his arrest via Twitter, and now much more details have emerged about his life overseas and his sentencing.



The New York Times reports:

The story of Mr. Solondz’s life on the lam spanned three continents, involved at least two aliases and ended in a smoky bar in one of the world’s most authoritarian countries…

According to his father, Paul Solondz, the Dali police said they discovered 33 pounds of marijuana buried in the courtyard of the house that the younger Mr. Solondz rented, as well as what the prosecutor described as a drug laboratory inside the house.

Friends of Mr. Solondz in Dali said he went by the name Isaac Cox and was a familiar figure who favored black clothing, had a dog and rode a bicycle through the stone streets of Dali’s old section. (His mother, however, said court documents said he used the name David Isaac Hart.)

“He looked like a man on the run,” said a man who knew Mr. Solondz and did not give his name for fear of retribution from authorities and fellow foreigners. “Everyone who comes to this town is running away from something, some more than others.”

After serving his prison time in China, Solondz will be extradited to the United States where faces charges for his alleged involvement in the ELF arson of a horticulture center at the University of Washington in 2001.

As his father told the Times:

“Compared to those horrible people who want to kill as many people as possible in the name of religion, the avowed mission of this organization is to not harm any people or animals,” he said. “This should not even be called terrorism.”

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There should be bans & moratoriums on many of the GM + nanotech

30.11.2009 22:32

technology out there, as shown in the movieGI JOE,nanotech could be used as a wmd more dangerous than Nuclear a WMD which we still havent got under control,there have been nano weapons expos for years in the UK. Its v sad people that people like Solondz who investigate often with no funding at all feel driven to go to these lengths against unscrupulous companies like Bayer who Judges at Nuremberg called more guilty than the nazis,put profit before real science.
I agreed with Solondzs tactics for many years,though more safe decontstruction rather than fires which do look potentially haphazard, know I campaign for direct democracy as successfully used in Switzerland&athens, using sortition or allotment as used to choose juries to stop corruption. There are campaigns in most countries for this, our calls for moratoriums on bad science & WMDs would work in a real democracy, rather than the corporate bilderberg & trilateral oligarchy we live under today. Until then we must protest, with our minds on a strategy

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