File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0009, message 101


Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:08:45 -0400
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: Re: First Uganda, then Eugene?


I think the cops did it to make the local anarchists look bad. If any
reporter asks me about this I will say that the cops probably did it. We
need to keep throwing these things back at the cops as much as possible.
So far we've managed to put eggs on the faces of the Seattle, Los
Angeles, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC police departments. There was
even a story on NPR this morning about the relevations in Philadelphia
about police infiltration of the GOP convention protest. Before this is
over it will embarass the city of Philly quite a bit. We'll see the
transfer of millions of dollars in the pockets of activists.

Serves them right!

Chuck0

shddemon-AT-concentric.net wrote:
> 
> What do you all think of this?
> 
> Personally, I think whoever is doing this (if it is
> not an agent provocateur / COINTELPRO-type thing) is
> being very counterproductive and shortsighted.
> 
> Honestly, I don't think anyone would be stupid
> enough to do this shit.
> 
> Maybe pacifism doesn't work, but neither does
> bombing a fucking police station. Especially
> near a hospital. That's suicidal. That's
> why I don't think anyone except COINTELPRO would do
> any of these arsons, it wouldn't make sense.
> 
> Obviously, take all this with a grain of salt, as
> it is mainstream media..
> 
> ------
> 
> Police station the latest arson target
> 
> By TRICIA SCHWENNESEN
> The Register-Guard
> 
>  An arson fire scorched the side of a Eugene police substation
> near the University of Oregon campus early Wednesday, prompting
> speculation about the motivation behind the blaze and possible
> link to a fire at an auto dealership in June.
> The substation fire, caused by an explosive device, shattered
> a window at the substation and blackened a brick wall on the
> building's west side. A Sacred Heart Medical Center security
> officer on a routine patrol spotted the fire about 4:30 a.m.
> and called for help.
> 
> ----
> Firefighters
> An explosives technician gives a thumbs up to fellow officers
> after disconnecting an apparent bomb set outside a police substation
> at 13th Avenue and Alder Street.
> 
> Photo: CHRIS PIETSCH / The Register-Guard
>  -----
> 
> quickly extinguished the fire, but police later found a second
> device - a red plastic container filled with flammable liquid
> - hidden in the bushes on the east side of the building. After
> finding the container, officers called for the Eugene police
> bomb squad and cordoned off the area around the building, at
> 13th Avenue and Alder Street. Sacred Heart officials temporarily
> rerouted ambulances to the hospital's front entrance.
> 
> The area was closed for much of the morning, but was opened after
> bomb squad members X-rayed the second container and determined
> it wasn't an immediate danger.
> 
> "This is a new twist," said Sgt. Rex Barrong, arson supervisor.
> "There's no doubt, when you find two devices on either side of
> the building, then we're the target."
> 
> Police officials said they were concerned that the substation
> fire appeared to raise the stakes in a series of recent arson
> fires, set primarily in trash bins in the Whiteaker neighborhood
> and Franklin Boulevard area. In the past couple of months, someone
> has set dozens of small fires in those areas, including a string
> of seven blazes in the first 10 days of August.
> 
> Investigators began tracking the fires in April and said they
> could be the work of a serial arsonist who could be a member
> of the activist community. But police were hesitant to link Wednesday's
> fire to the earlier arson fires or to blame it on activists or
> anarchists.
> 
> Barrong said police have no suspects and no one has stepped forward
> to claim responsibility for the trash bin fires or the substation
> fire.
> 
> But Barrong said there are similarities between the devices found
> at the substation and those used in June to cause more than $40,000
> in damage at the Joe Romania auto dealership on Franklin Boulevard,
> just east of the campus.
> 
> In that fire, a 2000 Chevrolet Silverado half-ton pickup truck
> was destroyed and two other trucks were damaged. That same night,
> two trash bin fires in the Whiteaker area caused $300 in damage.
> 
> Police arrested two men and charged them with the June 16 dealership
> fire. The suspects, Jeffrey Michael Luers, 21, and Craig Andrew
> Marshall, 27, who are self-described anarchists, are scheduled
> for trial Oct. 3.
> 
> Dean Rimmerman, an activist and supporter of Luers and Marshall,
> questioned the quick link to the June fire.
> 
> "Well, it's amazing that the police could make a judgment like
> that on the scene just moments after the fire," Rimmerman said.
> "I think it's outrageous for them to draw connections at such
> an early stage of an arson investigation."
> 
> Barrong described a bomb used at the dealership and the incendiary
> device found Wednesday as being fairly unsophisticated.
> 
> "A lot of this can be found on the Internet or in books," Barrong
> said. "It's not super high-tech."
> 
> The substation fire started where a plastic container filled
> with accelerant was strapped to a mountain bike and leaned up
> against the building, Barrong said. Police wouldn't describe
> the devices, including whether each had a fuse or some sort of
> time-delayed detonator.
> 
> "Anything that's petroleum-based burns hot and burns fast," Barrong
> said.
> 
> Steve Buswell, a manager at the sandwich shop Sam's on Campus,
> said the fire scares him.
> 
> "I don't know why anybody would do that, but it is a pretty violent
> act," Buswell said. "Whoever did do it had no regard for human
> life or they wouldn't have done it near the hospital."
> 
> Barrong added that the fire could have been much worse. "The
> quick response of the security people probably saved our building,"
> he said.
> 
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