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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2454)	4/19/2005 9:42:52 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 9838

SUV vandal gets 8 years in prison LOS ANGELES -- A former CalTech graduate student was sentenced to more than eight years in prison yesterday and ordered to pay $3.5 million for his role in a spree of arson and vandalism that targeted Hummers and other sport utility vehicles. Rejecting pleas for clemency from William Cottrell, a 24-year-old doctoral candidate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner added more time to the sentence after finding that Cottrell was trying to sway consumers with his anti-SUV message. The slogans Cottrell spray-painted onto vehicles included "Fat Lazy Americans," "No Respect for Earth" and "SUV -- Terrorism." Cottrell was convicted in November on seven counts of arson and one count of conspiracy related to a 2003 vandalism and firebombing spree that targeted about 125 large sport utility vehicles.