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

[LoZoccolo]

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!

[John Q. Citizen]

1. Good for Nader and good for the young man. It's heartening to see he's directing his passions

in a more socially acceptable fashion.

I wish him well with his film festival. And I commend Nader for helping to make it a success!

Environmental awareness is a very important value to be promoting and i wish more of our public figures would make a committment to it.

[TooBigaTent]

2. Yes! Must not protest environmental destruction.

[superduperfarleft]

3. Thanks for the heads-up, I may check that out.

And how about this?

"When Wade started organizing the event, he knew he needed a big-name speaker for added oomph. But Robert Kennedy Jr. wanted $30,000 and Al Gore costs $150,000 -- plus there’s a two-year waiting list for the Nobel laureate. After hearing a Baltimore speech months ago by longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, Wade waited in a book-signing line and simply asked for Nader’s help.

He agreed."

Wow, nader sure came out looking like the greedy bastard in this case. /sarcasm

And hey, look at this: "When asked if they were aware of Wade’s radical past -- he was released from prison in January 2007 -- an official in Nader’s camp said they did not know about it."