Someone once said, “anyone in their 20′s who is not a liberal has not heart; anyone over the age of 30 who is not a conservative has no brain.” If you need any further proof to the last part of this maxim, look no further than James Andrew Jeppe. In addition to vandalizing the cars of high school students and other Southlake residents, the 72-year old Mr. Jeppe also admitted to being part of Green Peace, the Sierra Club and other fringe, environmental extremist organizations.
While I have no love loss with the residents of Southlake, I clearly see the actions of Mr. Jeppe as those of a hippie who never grew up. Grown ups don’t act like this, only spoiled idealogues who never learned the meaning of personal responsibility.
Left uncheck, this could lead to greater acts of eco-terrorism. Our neighbors in the Western U.S. know far too well how far these nut jobs are willing to go to advance their agenda. Hopefully, prosecutors will use Mr. Jeppe as an example to teach would be eco-terrorists that in Texas, eco-terrorism will not be tolerated.
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Paul Pettit says:
September 23, 2008 at 2:15 pm (UTC -6 )
I think paying for the 5 Hummers he vandalized ($2,200 each x 5 = $11,000) plus 12 months of community service would be fair.
geoausch says:
September 23, 2008 at 5:14 pm (UTC -6 )
Paul,
I think your idea would be a good start, but I do think some sort of jail time–maybe 6 months to a year–would also do a good job of sending a strong message to others who might try more extreme measures of eco-terrorism. If scratching an “X” into a Hummer will get you a year in jail, what could burning down a house get you?
Again, this assumes that eco-terrorists use logic, which I don’t think they do many times.
PO says:
September 27, 2008 at 8:54 am (UTC -6 )
I think the community service approach is right…I’m sure it would be a service to the community of Southlake that he’s forced to washed the Hummers of everyone in the city government. Or force him to work in a papermill where he’ll see the senseless destruction of mother nature herself. Maybe throw a tickertape parade for the football team…having the tickertape composed of shredded Sierra Club and Greenpeace membership cards and have him at the tail of the parade, broom in hand. I’m sure the swell folks there will find something for him.
Geoausch says:
December 3, 2008 at 12:50 am (UTC -6 )
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