Environment panel includes radicals

Washington Times ^ | 1/05/03 | Audrey Hudson

[kattracks]

The list of participants for a California State University event on the environment reads like an international Who's Who of eco-terrorists. One man is wanted by authorities in two countries.

Billed as "Revolutionary Environmentalism: A Dialogue Between Activists and Academics," the Feb. 12-14 conference is an attempt by the Fresno-based university to create a "statement of principles that represents the radical environmental community."

[carlo3b]

Attorney General John Ashcroft, ...a...er..is that your cell phone ringing?

[Stultis]

Center for Consumer Freedom

One of their Ads (attribution reads, "Ingrid Newkirk, PETA Co-Founder, on her desire for a USA hoof-and-mouth epidemic"):

OpEd on PETA's ties to eco-terrorist org ELF.

Their "Activist Cash" site is also a great resource.

[Stultis]

Just found the Center for Consumer Freedom's report on this conference:

Special Report: Legitimizing the Lunatics
The Center for Consumer Freedom has learned that the California State University at Fresno will host an event in 2003 dedicated to the topic of “Revolutionary Environmentalism.” The soon-to-be-announced February 13-14 conference will include a list of speakers that reads like a “Who’s Who” of the environmental and animal-rights criminal culture.

According to a draft of the conference’s publicity flyer, Cal State Fresno will bill the event as “A Dialogue between Activists and Academics.” On the contrary, the entire escapade looks like a one-sided, anti-intellectual exercise completely bereft of opposing viewpoints.

Confirmed participants will include:

• Paul Watson -- an animal rights terrorist on the high seas who is considered a fugitive from justice in at least two countries, has sunk at leasts 10 ships, and told the “Animal Rights 2002” conference: “There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win”;
  
  
• Gary Yourofsky -- an employee of PETA who proudly sports an Animal Liberation Front tattoo on his arm, has been arrested at least 10 times for animal rights crimes, and has told activists: “Do not be afraid to condone arsons at places of animal torture”;
  
  
• Steven Best -- a University of Texas-El Paso philosophy professor who operates a “Center on Animal Liberation Affairs” in his spare time;
  
  
• Rik Scarce -- Michigan State University sociology professor who has spent time behind bars for refusing to tell a Grand Jury what he knows about the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), and who argues in his book Eco-Warriors that wholesale human extermination would be “an environmental cure-all”;
  
  
• Rodney Coronado -- a convicted arsonist who received over $70,000 from PETA’s tax-exempt coffers, spent over 4 years in prison for torching a Michigan State University laboratory, and now fronts for the violent animal rights group SHAC;
  
  
• Craig Rosebraugh -- a former ELF “spokesperson” who refused to answer more than 50 questions about his organization’s crime spree during Congressional hearings last February;
  
  
• Leslie Pickering -- Craig Rosebraugh’s roommate, who officially took over as ELF “press officer” after Rosebraugh was subpoenaed by Congress a year ago; and
  
  
• Kim Marks – a “spokesperson” for the Olympia, Washington chapter of Earth First! (EF!), the radical green group that spawned ELF in 1992, at a time when EF! claimed responsibility for torching logging equipment, fire trucks, and bulldozers.
  
  

The event brochure laments that “tree spiking” and “animal rescues” have received “little public recognition.” In order to remedy this situation, says the flyer, “faculty members at California State University, Fresno invite environmental and animal-rights activists, and scholars to participate in a conference on the practical, political, and spiritual aspects of revolutionary environmentalism.”

This state-funded university is extending its open arms to individuals and movements that break laws, threaten innocent lives, and cause immeasurable damage. Although the proposed program includes a roundtable discussion on “The Ethics of Sabotage,” the overall impression being promoted by the Cal State Fresno faculty (and by extension, the taxpayers of California) is one of legitimacy.

The full list of conference sponsors within Cal State Fresno includes:

• Department of Political Science and Public Administration
• University Lecture Series
• Office of the President
• College of Social Sciences
• Department of Anthropology
• Department of Criminology [editor’s note: At last! an appropriate sponsor!]
• Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
• Department of Geography

We hope you are as incensed as we are by the thought of California tax dollars paying for a program to glorify criminal behavior, with absolutely no balance from more levelheaded observers.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

This is just what the government needs to turn activism into terrorism .....bye bye first amendment

[Stultis]

The full list of conference sponsors within Cal State Fresno includes [I've added links to directory or contact info pages!]:

Department of Political Science and Public Administration
University Lecture Series
Office of the President (No email for prez Welty!)
College of Social Sciences
Department of Anthropology
Department of Criminology
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Department of Geography

[Stultis]

Backhoe, here's one on eco-terrorism being legitimized by an American university that you may want to include in your compilations.

[hellinahandcart]

Oh, man...

[hellinahandcart]

Another example of unusual honesty and boldness from another branch of communism (the green kind). Naturally they'd like to see the destruction of America, so that all us survivors could be forced into a third-world lifestyle and their Earth Goddess could "heal".

I can't figure out whether this brazen behavior is rooted in confidence or desperation though.

[hellinahandcart]

Thanks for the nifty links, btw.

You'll love this one, Grampa.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the ping!

Just more proof that a very large % of college professors hate America and work 24/7 to weaken and destroy it.

The farmers and rancher graduates should show up and protest this.

If these scumbags are receiving a single taxpayer penny during our budget crisis in California, all $'s should be deducted from what the state will give the college this year.

[Grampa Dave]

This sounds like a prime target for a Fresno Chapter Freep.

After the university brings these enviral terrorist criminals in to spread their poison, who will be next,
Osama Ben Laden, Arafat, Uncle Soddomite, some murdering Mullahs of Iran or Osama Mama Murray?

[hellinahandcart]

Breathtaking audacity, isn't it?

I'll give it another bump; more people need to read this.

[Grampa Dave]

farmfriend this should anger every farmer and rancher who has to fight these enviral terrorist Watermelons just to keep feeding America.

[Grampa Dave]

Please bump this proposed outrage to your enviral list.

This is freeking incredible!

[Grampa Dave]

This should get your anti enviral juices flowing this morning.

Here our state is in severe financial trouble and these anti farm/ranch Green Jihadists have been paid with our tax $'s to come to California's heartland of farming/ranching to spread their anti America/Capitalism green terrorist views.

Besides our tax $'s, this state needs our farmers and ranchers to produce food for the state, country and world. If our farms and ranches fail, California will be in more trouble than we are in now.

Local conservative talk show hosts in California need to start trashing this outrageous event before it happens.

[Northern Yankee]

Environmental Panel includes radicals?

No... it can't be....

I have watched the conservation movement, which started off in the right direction, taken a decidely happy free turn to the left. It truly is stunning.

I do believe in a conservation ethic, as most good hunters and fishermen do, but this garbage that has replaced conservation threatens our very liberty. This is not what John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Teddy Roosevelt, "Bird Dog" Grinnel, or Thoreau advocated.

[Grampa Dave]

Most conservatives believe in Good Stewardship re our lands and the creatures that God put there. We were the first conservationists.

Now we have been replaced by Watermelon Green Jihadists who work 24/7 to weaken or destroy America.

Elf is a Green Jihadist Criminal organization. Its organizers and those who practice their enviral terrorism need to be in jail. Now these pro Watermelons at this University are bring criminals with extradition warrants out for them to present their vile agendas.

[Grampa Dave]

Here is the latest act of economic eco terrorism by the ELF terrorists in America: (On Friday, the environmental terrorist group Earth Liberation Army claimed responsibility for setting several SUV’s on fire at Bob Ferrando Ford in Girard. The claim was released on the ELF’s website. The statement says the group targeted the SUV’s to “continue the fight to remove the profit motive from the killing of the natural enviornment." The FBI says it is taking the fires very seriously. Four SUV’s were completely destroyed when jugs of gas were placed under three of them and then lit. The vandalism occurred just before 6:00 a.m. New Year’s Day. Police estimate the damage at $100,000. Owner Bob Ferrando says his insurance will cover the damage.)