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."
Today there are close to 20 fires burning in Oregon. Are any of these fires due to the promises of these Enviral Eco Terrorists or just due to their forest miss management agendas.
More links will posted to this thread re what's happening today and what these groups have threatened America with.
Kattracks posted this article while I was in the process of posting it. No need for double posting.
Green Anarchists =
Teasing ranchers
Researching ants
Just being,
Unless of course you belong to a gun club, militia, or, get ready to gasp, one of the State TRT's. Then, of course, no law need be broken for your group to be actively investigated. Where's Mulder and Skully when we need them?
EBUCK
Turns out I was wrong...sort of...but here a\they are apparently AFFILIATED with ELF.
I can only say it is SUPREMELY STUPID OF THE FBI to be SOOOOOO worried about accusations from Constitutionalists that the rights of eco terrorists brought in for questioning will be violated (EXAMPLE: anyone catch Ann Coulter today? The guy at the very end of the show.)....THAT THEY WON'T INVESTIGATE the POSSIBLE breaking of law until a law is broken spectacularly enough to warrent an investigation!!!
Note to FBI: THIS IS A TERRORIST CELL AFFILIATED WITH, AND PROBABLY AN OFFSHOOT OF, A KNOWN TERRORIST GROUP!! HAS AL QAEDA TAUGHT YOU NOTHING???
Stupid. So stupid.
"The FBI is only concerned when there is a violation of the law," said Steven Berry
Crime follow up. That's all they have. Several courts have ruled that it's not an LEOs job to protect people from crime. Rather, to enforce the law. In that case, should any eco-terrorists on their tour of destruction break the law it is LEOs that failed to enforce the law. The FBI has been informed of the high probability of crimes to come from a specific group with a known location. The FBI needs to enforce the law. If the eco-terrorists do commit crimes it will be taken into account the amount of negligence and or incompetence by the FBI.
I mean, if the FBI can't competently thwart known eco-terrorists from committing crimes with a map of their tour schedule in hand it is blatantly obvious that the FBI would be useless in thwarting unknown and difficult-to-locate Islamic terrorist.
I wonder, can "recommending" be the same as "conspiring"?
"Four legs good, two legs bad."
-George Orwell, Animal Farm
Eco-terrorists present as clear and present a danger to this country as al Qaeda or ANY of the zillions of other Islamifascist terrorist groups in this country. If the FBI can do sweeps of jewelery kiosks run by illegals in US malls as apparent money laundering centers for Islamic terrorists, they can sure as heck use the same tactic on the worst of the enviro terrorists.
I believe the FBI's worried because the enviro terrorists are savvy with all the successful legal sallies used by the left for so many years. Why make arrests when you know the enemy has the support of the rich and influential, and you probably won't win the case?
Good Lord...I think I'm saying the FBI isn't sure how to deal with them....I hope I am wrong.
I think I'm saying the FBI isn't sure how to deal with them.
It's negligence or incompetence -- probably both. Time and events will tell as the eco-terrorists go on their tour of destruction.
True... True...
Like the Budweiser "Wazzup" commercials from last year.
If you take your family to Burger King, please do not buy their veggie burger. Peta gets money for each veggie burger sold. Peta finances the radical animal loving groups. (Peta's MurderKing Site)
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