Posted on 07/18/2002 12:08:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
Eco-Terror Expert Calls For Inquiry of Green Anarchists
Marc Morano, CNSNews.com, Thursday, July 18, 2002
An expert on eco-terrorism is calling on the FBI to investigate an organization that is touting a nationwide tour to "destroy civilization" and raise money for convicted eco-terrorists, but a spokesman for the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Program said the agency is taking a hands-off approach for the time being.
The Green Anarchy Tour 2002, currently traveling from Ashland, Ore., to Washington, D.C., advertises its participants as "anarchists," refers to police as "the fascist force we are up against" and calls convicted eco-terrorists "prisoners of war."
Such rhetoric has Ron Arnold concerned. Arnold, vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, said the tour "presents probable cause for investigation.
"You do have people here recommending violence, murder, property damage, everything you can think of," he said.
Arnold is author of several books on the environmental movement including "Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World of the Unabomber."
He believes that with the increasing number of domestic environmental and animal rights terrorist acts in the United States, the FBI should be more proactive in investigating possible threats like the Green Anarchy Tour.
"I would say that law enforcement has an obligation, probable cause to at least look into it," Arnold said. "If they say they are going to destroy civilization, I think we should take them at their word," he added.
FBI Lukewarm to Investigation
The FBI is less concerned than Arnold, at least publicly, saying it won't do anything until and unless the law is broken.
"The FBI is only concerned when there is a violation of the law," said Steven Berry, spokesman for the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Program. "We fully support the rights of any and all groups, no matter what their message or their purpose, to lawfully assemble, protest and march."
When asked about the risks of terrorism from domestic sources, Berry said, "The FBI is only concerned when there is a violation of federal law," adding that eco-terrorism is "the number one investigative priority of the domestic terrorism section."
But Arnold thinks the matter deserves greater attention, noting that the Green Anarchy Tour's support of convicted members of the radical environmental group Earth Liberation Front makes an investigation more necessary.
The group's Internet website says that proceeds from the tour will help convicted arsonists such as Jeffrey "Free" Luers and Craig "Critter" Marshall.
"[Earth Liberation Front] is an FBI declared terrorist organization that they want to be the beneficiary of their proceeds," Arnold said.
Eco-Terrorism on The Rise
According to Arnold, the threat of domestic terrorists cannot be underestimated. "I think it is as much a threat as foreign terrorism. These people are going to damage property and kill people," Arnold said.
Domestic terrorism and violence by environmental and animal 'rights' activists is on the rise, according to Arnold. "We've had 'animal rights' activists beat people with baseball bats causing serious injury. We see that kind of violence growing," Arnold said.
According to the FBI, there have been more than 600 cases of eco-terrorism causing $43 million dollars in property damage over the past decade, prompting him to call the federal response to eco-terrorism "a day late and a dollar short."
Arnold cited the failure of federal law enforcement for the escalating violence. "We probably have got [sic] literally thousands of [eco-terrorists] who ought to be in jail," he said, placing the blame squarely on the FBI for "failing to investigate exactly the kind of things you see on the [Green Anarchy] web site."
This eco facist POS actually tried to advance his bill that would close more forest roads and put more forests in danger while the state below him, Oregon is burning up.
There is no room in Congress nor America for these dangerous Eco Fascists who advance the Green Agendas that can kill us or cost us our homes.
This left wing Eco Facist POS should be impeached and tried for endangerment of the American people with this agenda he was trying to advance:
Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Washington, announced plans to enforce President Clinton’s flawed roadless rule – which is in federal litigation – through an amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill. The amendment would have prohibited federal funding for forest management activity in the 57 million acres of federal forestland that President Clinton proclaimed as roadless in a hasty administrative order in the waning days of his presidency.
The amendment would have prohibited several fire prevention activities, including the use of backfires, which has been successful in saving western towns threatened by looming fire this season. The U.S. Forest Service has reported that more than a third of the land in the roadless area -- 22 million acres – is at moderate to high risk for forest fire during one of the most devastating wildfire seasons in recent memory.
This Watermelon Klown is so damn arrogant and dangerous, that he makes OBL look like a piker. Get him out of Congress now before he makes the 9/11 loss of life look small! This insane agenda could wipe out entire towns and cities if it had been approved!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
we use the "deadfall" which cleans a forest and there was always more if you weren't lazy!!
Thanks, I needed that.
The beasts have overtaken the zoo.
He can be very charming, and he is highly intelligent. He not only has a high political efficacy, he is effective at engaging people in a winning way.
I predict his sentence will be abrided if but to ease the intense and relentless pressure these supporters wage to get this to be done.
People need to monitor this and counter this pressure if you want this sort of crime to have a deterence value. We do not need arsonists, tree spikers, or other people engaged in low intensity warfare.
No deterence, and an increasing syphistication in operations will cost us plenty, and this sort of thing not only costs a pretty penny in loses and enforcement to guard things, each Earth Liberation Front operative seems like fifty to a scared public, and that makes this demoralizing to them.
I don't even mention to anyone hints about what I was trained in in the military here in Eugene. And if I ever saw anyone with materials and plans to do domestic terrorism, I would let the authorities know this. One thing that sunk these idiots was they had the mixtures of flammable liquids and the same incense used in these arson operations.
That was the moral equivalent of a finger print, and explains why they caved in to make guilty pleas so fast.
Naturally I won't go into my perspective of what they did wrong, and how they could have done that they did better because that is the same thing as giving a lesson in how to think about scripting an operations order for this.
But you are absolutely correct; even the most seemingly harmless expertise passed on from military training can come back to haunt you. And believe me, nobody needs that sort of thing keeping them awake at night.
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