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Headlines : Civil Liberties

Summary:

Coronado was arrested on Feb. 22, 2006, and charged with teaching and demonstrating the making of a destructive device before dozens of people in Hillcrest on Aug. 1, 2003.

What he did was explain the procedures involved in a previous action for which he had already been found guilty and for which he had already done his time.

[Posted By ShiftShapers]

By Some Corporate Tool
Republished from KGTV San Diego

Man Charged With Teaching, Demonstrating How To Make Bomb In Hillcrest

SAN DIEGO — An activist once tied to the radical Earth Liberation Front was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in federal prison for showing people how to make a fire bomb.

Rodney Coronado, 41, pleaded guilty on Dec. 14 to a rarely used federal law that makes it a crime to teach how to make a destructive device that could be used to commit arson. A jury deadlocked in his trial three months earlier.

The defendant could have faced up to 20 years behind bars if convicted.

Coronado told U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Miller that he wanted to move on with his life, which includes a new wife and two young children.

“I have done things in my past that I now regret,” Coronado told the judge.

The defendant, who lives in Tucson, Ariz., said he has separated himself from radical groups such as the ELF and Animal Liberation Front.

“My life is about moving on from associations in general,” Coronado told the judge. “I don’t think future federal trials are conducive to a healthy marriage. My responsibility is to my family.”

Coronado said his sentence was fair and asked to allowed “to start my life again.”

Miller applauded the defendant for accepting responsibility for…

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RECENT COMMENTS

John Brunner foresaw ecotewowism in 1968. He called homegrown tewowists little red brothers. He was right on mark on many points.

Stand on Zanzibar from Wiki

On another note, Coronado is inspiring in this video. Thanks for posting.

mikecimerian @ 03/28/08 12:41:18

The movie Backdraft showed more on firebombs than what he showed. The producers and the director aren’t in jail…

mikecimerian @ 03/28/08 13:38:06

for those of you reading this in the forum and wondering what the hell video mike’s referring to, click here for the headline view, which includes the summary, where the vid is embedded.

it would be nice if, with the coming site improvements, the forum view could include the headline summaries and subtitles…

ShiftShapers @ 03/28/08 13:38:20

The movie Backdraft showed more on firebombs than what he showed. The producers and the director aren’t in jail…

nor are the administrators of Wikipedia in jail for this...

ShiftShapers @ 03/28/08 13:39:51

besides, all he was doing was describing a crime he had already committed, and for which he had already been found guilty, sentenced, and served his time.

the fact that he was just describing a past action for which he already did time is perhaps the most absurd aspect of this madness of all…

ShiftShapers @ 03/28/08 13:41:06

ah, a little double jeopardy?

Science @ 03/28/08 13:51:48