Josephine Sunshine Overaker on Eco-Terrorism Charges

[JP]

MOST WANTED: Josephine Sunshine Overaker on Eco-Terrorism Charges

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
By Sara Bonisteel

This is a weekly series that profiles America's most wanted criminals.

Under the cover of darkness on an October evening in 1996, Josephine Sunshine Overaker began her life as an eco-terrorist, officials said.

The long-haired, vegan activist, sporting a slight moustache, worked at times as a midwife, sheep tender and firefighter, but this night she ignited her own dangerous blaze, officials said.

Along with several other environmental extremists, Overaker slipped into the Willamette National Forest and struck the U.S. Forest Service's station in Detroit, Ore., officials said.

Clad in black, they allegedly left graffiti and burned several Forest Service vehicles before disappearing into the night. Overaker and her cohorts broke the law for a branch of the Earth Liberation Front that called itself "the Family," investigators said.

"Once they did an action, they never went back to that place," FBI Special Agent Timothy Suttles said. "And the people involved in that action would never talk about it, ever."

Two days after the attack in Detroit, investigators said Overaker and fellow extremists struck again 140 miles away in Oakridge, planting within another ranger station an incendiary device crudely fashioned from milk jugs and sponges with fuses made of incense sticks. It was designed to ignite the accelerant long after they'd gone, and it worked; they succeeded in burning the Oakridge Ranger Station to the ground.

"They would pick their targets sometimes a year in advance and do significant surveillance, getting the timing down of the guards

[sparker1]

There's a good chance she's hiding out on this forum.

[JP]

There's a good chance she's hiding out on this forum.

A female with a mustache or just a feminine male gracing this forum She very well might be

[James_B_Wads2000]

I knew a guy that was a vegan terrorist. He and his friends burned down a McDonalds in Sandy wile it was still under construction. They were caught and he was tried as an adult and spent his years from 17 to 22 in state prison.

He said later that he still believed eating meat is wrong, but so is burning down buildings. He was an angry kid but he grew up to be a pretty cool guy.


James

[greyhair biker]

obviously never heard the phrase "two wrongs don't make a right"

[sparker1]

I knew a guy that was a vegan terrorist. He and his friends burned down a McDonalds in Sandy wile it was still under construction. They were caught and he was tried as an adult and spent his years from 17 to 22 in state prison.

He said later that he still believed eating meat is wrong, but so is burning down buildings. He was an angry kid but he grew up to be a pretty cool guy.


James

Shame it cost him five years of his life to learn that lesson. On the other hand, some never learn it.