Of all the nerve! Prosecutors comparing people who burn down buildings to intimidate their opponents being compared to terrorists who burned down buildings to intimidate their opponents!

Defense attorneys expressed outrage Tuesday when federal prosecutors compared 10 Earth Liberation Front arsonists who are awaiting sentencing to Ku Klux Klan arsonists.

"I cannot sit idly by and hear what these defendants did be compared to acts of the Ku Klux Klan burning empty churches," defense attorney Amanda Lee said in federal court.

But what are these eco-freaks charged with? Burning down empty buildings for political purposes – just like the Kluxers.

And the prosecutor had it exactly right.

Federal prosecutors asked Judge Ann Aiken that a so-called terrorism enhancement be added to their sentences.

"This is a classic case of terrorism, despite their protests of lofty humane goals," Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Peifer said. "It was pure luck no one was killed or injured by their actions. If that is (humane), then the Ku Klux Klan did not commit terrorism."

IÂ’m sure the sheet-heads in the KKK thought they were justified, too. Just ask Senator Byrd.

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