Protest Planned Against Greenpeace's 'Eco-Manslaughter'

CNSNews.com ^ | 5/09/03 | Marc Morano

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(CNSNews.com) - An African American civil rights group is planning a Saturday protest against Greenpeace, alleging that the environmental group has committed "eco-manslaughter" through its support of international policies limiting development and the expansion of technology to the developing world's poor.

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) will conduct a counter demonstration at Greenpeace USA's "Run for Your Life" 5K road race at Liberty State Park in New Jersey. The Greenpeace event itself will be a protest, meant to "raise awareness of the serious threats posed by chemical plants to New York and New Jersey residents and workers."

CORE is using the event as an opportunity to confront Greenpeace activists about their opposition to infrastructure development projects in the developing world, opposition to genetically modified foods and the group's opposition to the use of the chemical DDT to kill malaria-ridden mosquitoes, particularly in Africa.

"To serve its own ideological agenda, [Greenpeace] wants to keep the Third World permanently mired in Third World poverty, disease and death. So far, it has succeeded," said Niger Innis, national spokesperson for CORE

Innis believes that policies advocated by Greenpeace are keeping the developing world's poor from attaining running water, electricity and modern agricultural techniques that would allow more food to be grown on less land.

"It's time to hold these zealots accountable for the misery and death they cause," Innis stated.

According to CORE, 2 billion people worldwide have no electrical power or clean water and are forced to use manure for fuel. CORE alleges that groups like Greenpeace are partly responsible for this as a result of their opposition to infrastructure development projects in the poorest regions of the world.

"Green radicals oppose all these projects and tell these destitute people they should be happy with little solar panels on their huts, now and for generations to come," a CORE press release stated.

"People should be ashamed to support these fanatics and the eco-manslaughter they are perpetrating on the world's most destitute people. [Saturday's] protest is just the first step in bringing justice to the Third World," he added.

Several calls to Greenpeace USA were not returned by press time.

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[razorback-bert]

Gee, who to bet on, the eco-whackos or the race pimps?

[Paleo Conservative]

Gee, who to bet on, the eco-whackos or the race pimps?

That's kind of like the Iran-Iraq war.

[JacksonCalhoun]

If I'm not mistaken, CORE is not a bunch of poverty pimps like Jackson, Sharton, et. al.

[BIGZ]

DDT!

[U S Army EOD]

Anybody selling seats to this one? Its going to fun to watch.

[GrandmaPatriot]

If I'm not mistaken, CORE is not a bunch of poverty pimps like Jackson, Sharton, et. al.

You're absolutely right. CORE is an upstanding conservative organization headed up by Niger Innis and his father.

[jimkress]

LOL!!!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[lilylangtree]

Interesting twist!!!! Greenpeace getting a dose of their own medicine.

[IronJack]

Niger Innis and CORE are hardly race pimps. They've been fighting the plantation masters for decades, and are one of the few groups actually holding the line against reverse bigotry. They're the good guys.

[telebob]

This has the possibility of becoming very interesting if this and related issues can grow legs. I don't see anything wrong at all with CORE's reasoning and frankly, a bunch of white conservatives saying the same thing doesn't have the same impact as folks that liberals percieve as being 'victims of America' jam it up the Eco-commies anal cleft.

I would want to encourage this on so many levels...

[Prodigal Son]

Cool.

[lorrainer]

You're absolutely right. CORE is an upstanding conservative organization headed up by Niger Innis and his father.

Yes, he and his father Roy are on "our" side. Please check out this LINK . They even have a pic of Laura Bush on their homepage. Check out some interesting articles HERE , HERE , and HERE . If I'm not mistaken some FReepers are members.

[Mr. Silverback]

Though some others in this thread have already pointed it out, let's try it again:

CORE is a conservative group. They have always been conservative. IIRC, they date from the original Civil Rights Movement. The are the exact opposite of the poverty pimps who run the current "civil rights" shakedown operation.

Are there any bleedin' questions?

[Flora McDonald]

To this news I say "AWESOME!" and would love to be there. Think of the potential signage! "Eco-manslaughter"...a great new term that I hope finds its way into common usage.

Maybe someone in that area will post an after-action report on Free Rupublic.
This whole anti-war/peace/wwp/answer/peta/elf/anarchist/green scenario (IMHO) is a fertile seedbed for homegrown terrorism and to see anyone take them on does my heart good.

[enuu]

This is excellent, especially to raise awareness about the "genetically engineered" foods. People are starving in the world, mostly people of color, because Greenpeace and other groups prevent the U.S. from donating food to them. On a global scale, it's the same game as the leftists in the USA, keep them in poverty and ignorance so you can manipulate them. The CORE people support real equality and true empowerment, not just the rhetoric of it.