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Jeff "Free" Luers is an environmental activist from Los Angeles, California, currently serving a twenty-two year prison sentence for arson. Recently, on February 14, 2007, The Court of Appeals ruled that Jeff Luers' sentence will be revisited, with a possible 15 years taken off the original sentencing.[1] In 2000 he set fire to three SUVs at Romania Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Oregon as a protest against excessive consumption and global warming along with Craig Marshall, who was sentenced to five and a half years in prison. Supporters argue that he is a political prisoner, due to his abnormally long sentence; they point out that sentences for arson and even crimes such as rape are generally much shorter, and that Luers was not intentionally endangering any human being, only destroying property in an act of direct action. Opponents argue that this act constituted eco-terrorism, there could easily have been loss of life due to the unpredictable nature of arson, and Luers' complete lack of remorse[2], along with an apparent willingness to perpetuate further violent acts, makes him a risk to society.
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