A Terrorist is a Terrorist is a...

AFP gives the softball treatment to a "violinist mom" who firebombed a horticultural center:

Waters was the first person charged in connection with an attack that destroyed the Center for Urban Horticulture at the University of Washington in May of 2001, according to Emily Langlie of the US Attorney's Office.

The fire was one of a series of arson attacks in the Pacific west that police believe were committed by militant environmental activists linked to the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front.

The AFP humanizes the woman--as it does with all terrorists--and pushes this story as one of a happy liberal who teaches kids how to play the violin (which most kids forced to take lessons would feel is terrorism) and is just a happy animal lover from Berkeley who would never do anything like this.

I'm a firm believer in innocent until proven guilty, which is why I ask you to juxtapose the kid-glove treatment of this woman in a case which has been investigated for years with the treatment of the Duke University Lacrosse team which has been tried and convicted by every womans group out there before the investigation is completed.

You see, the Duke team is all white with the exception of one token black and are kids of priviledge who raped a poor black girl who was just minding her own business (of course that business is "exotic dancing". ) They must be guilty (and save your e-mails saying I'm defending these guys and that I'm intimating that she deserved it because I'm not. If the woman was raped, the perpetrator should be convicted and serve jail time.)

But this woman is from Berkeley...Berkeley! They're all happy go lucky lefties who would never do such a thing and even if they did, they did it for the animals so it's forgiveable.

Spare me, AFP.