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After Beating FBI Entrapment, Environmental Activist Eric McDavid Looks Forward [View all]
After Beating FBI Entrapment, Environmental Activist Eric McDavid Looks Forward
3/10/15
After serving nine years in prison, Eric McDavid was freed on January 8, 2015, when it was revealed - through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)-released court documents pored over by his supporters - that the government withheld documents from him that supported his defense claim that he was entrapped by the FBI.
McDavid, who identifies as an anarchist and an environmental activist, was charged with "conspiracy to use fire or explosives to damage corporate and government property" in May 2008 and sentenced to 19 years and 7 months in prison.
...According to Eric McDavid's lawyer, civil rights attorney Ben Rosenfeld, "Over the course of my 15-year career, I have seen a sharp rise in the targeting, entrapment and absurd branding of environmental activists as terrorists, dovetailing with the FBI's focus after 9-11 in trying to prevent terrorism, or at least pretend to the public that it is doing so, which misdirects priorities, infects judicial processes with bias, and insults the victims of actual terror."
In 2004, the FBI stated, "In recent years, the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front have become the most active criminal extremist elements in the United States." Even though the FBI admits that these groups discourage any act that harms an animal or human, this type of rhetoric that brands activists as "terrorists" has led to the entrapment arrests of Bradley Crowder and David McKay; the SHAC 7 arrests - and more recently, Eric McDavid.
McDavid's case was described as one of the most blatant cases of FBI entrapment in US history, involving an informant who went by "Anna." ...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29403-after-beating-fbi-entrapment-environmental-activist-eric-mcdavid-looks-forward
3/10/15
After serving nine years in prison, Eric McDavid was freed on January 8, 2015, when it was revealed - through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)-released court documents pored over by his supporters - that the government withheld documents from him that supported his defense claim that he was entrapped by the FBI.
McDavid, who identifies as an anarchist and an environmental activist, was charged with "conspiracy to use fire or explosives to damage corporate and government property" in May 2008 and sentenced to 19 years and 7 months in prison.
...According to Eric McDavid's lawyer, civil rights attorney Ben Rosenfeld, "Over the course of my 15-year career, I have seen a sharp rise in the targeting, entrapment and absurd branding of environmental activists as terrorists, dovetailing with the FBI's focus after 9-11 in trying to prevent terrorism, or at least pretend to the public that it is doing so, which misdirects priorities, infects judicial processes with bias, and insults the victims of actual terror."
In 2004, the FBI stated, "In recent years, the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front have become the most active criminal extremist elements in the United States." Even though the FBI admits that these groups discourage any act that harms an animal or human, this type of rhetoric that brands activists as "terrorists" has led to the entrapment arrests of Bradley Crowder and David McKay; the SHAC 7 arrests - and more recently, Eric McDavid.
McDavid's case was described as one of the most blatant cases of FBI entrapment in US history, involving an informant who went by "Anna." ...
http://truth-out.org/news/item/29403-after-beating-fbi-entrapment-environmental-activist-eric-mcdavid-looks-forward
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