Former Eco-Terrorist Organized Enviromental Film Festival [Nader thread] [View All]

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Ralph Nader still speaking at event after learning organizer spent three years in federal prison

Virginia Commonwealth University student John Wade has had a lot of time to think about the upcoming Environmental Film Festival he helped organize.

He’s a convicted felon who spent three years in federal prison in Petersburg for, among other things, conspiring with two friends from Douglas S. Freeman High School to vandalize SUVs, suburban homes, fast-food restaurants and construction vehicles in 2002.

The trio made up a local cell of a national radical environmental group -- the Earth Liberation Front -- that also conspired to blow up a construction crane at Short Pump Town Center by dousing an American flag in Kerosene and inserting it into the crane’s gas tank. It was considered an act of terrorism under the Patriot Act, since it was a crime “with the intent to coerce … the civilian population.”

http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=16236

Nader often uses guilt by association to tar and feather Democrats, but look who he's helping out!