White supremacist gets 11 years for attack on Oregon synagogue

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http://www.bendweekly.com/Statewide-News/4316.html

Jacob Albert Laskey, of Springfield, Ore., was sentenced Tuesday to serve 11 years and three months in federal prison for his role in the Oct. 25, 2002, racially-motivated attack on Temple Beth Israel, in Eugene, Oregon.

The defendant is a self-avowed white supremacist who admitted that he sought to commit acts of violence and destruction against Jews, African-Americans, and members of other ethnic and racial groups, when such opportunities arose.

In August 2006, Laskey pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil rights, intentionally damaging religious property, solicitation to murder witnesses, soliciting a bomb threat against the federal courthouse in Eugene, two counts of obstruction of justice, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. snip

According to the plea agreements and statements in court, the defendant conspired with co-defendants Gabriel Doyle Laskey, Gerald Anthony Poundstone, Jesse Lee Baker, and another individual, subsequently determined to be Jereomy Allan Baker, to intimidate Jewish persons at the Temple Beth Israel. The five men traveled to Temple Beth Israel at night in a vehicle driven by Jacob Laskey. They then threw swastika-etched rocks, breaking stained glass windows at the temple, while 80 members of the temple were inside attending a Jewish religious service. After throwing the rocks, the men fled the scene. The defendants acknowledged in court, that their actions violated the victims’ rights to use, hold and occupy religious property free from discrimination. All other co-defendants had previously entered guilty pleas.

[rurallib]

1. Wow ! sounds like - what - terrorism?

But we probably won't hear it on MSM. Too busy calling Pelosi a traitor.

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2. While I'm glad he's getting punished, isn't prison just a training school for white supremacists?

So, he'll just come out more hateful and with more violent tendencies and friends, right?

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3. 11 years 3 months for this:

"In August 2006, Laskey pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deprive individuals of their civil rights, intentionally damaging religious property, solicitation to murder witnesses, soliciting a bomb threat against the federal courthouse in Eugene, two counts of obstruction of justice, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. snip"

For God's sake, just about the only thing he didn't do, (thankfully), is murder someone; and that may just be an action that prison will set him up for...:eyes:

The fed courthouse thing is an act of terrorism...is he gonna go to Gitmo?

Curioisty piqued: If we can't control the terrorists in our country, how can we hope to control them somewhere else? I guess we ARE fighting them here already.