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07/14/2007: "Our society calls geniuses terrorists, locks them up"

Two years after his 2002 graduation with honors as a double major in physics and math, Cottrell was charged and convicted as one of the nation's first ecoterrorists of the post-Sept. 11 era. He was found guilty of conspiracy and arson in the 2003 firebombings of Hummer and other sport-utility vehicle dealerships in the Los Angeles area to advocate a radical environmentalism. Two conspirators remain at large.

[ But if he'd done it for civil rights, the poor, the retarded, women's rights, gay rights or free television he'd be a "hero." The crowd sure does hate those who are different. ]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-ecoterror_13jul13,1,5943462.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true