Posted on 03/04/2002 6:19:20 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
While the public's attention is focused on the prospect of more terrorist acts by Islamic fundamentalists, the terrorists who have posed the greatest threat to property, to scientific inquiry, and to medical research in America are still at large. And they are bragging about their accomplishments!
They are the members of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and Earth Liberation Front (ELF). James Jarboe, the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Counterterrorism Division for domestic terrorism, testified recently for a congressional subcommittee that at least 26 FBI field offices have pending investigations underway regarding these two groups. In addition, 44 Joint Terrorism Task Forces around the nation have taken up the challenge of eco-terrorism.
If you have not heard anything about this on network evening news programs or read much about it in your local daily newspaper, you are not alone. Why has most of the mainstream media virtually ignored the ALF and ELF, shadowy organizations that have carried out 600 attacks since 1996 and are emerging in the eyes of law enforcement officials as the largest and most active US-based terrorist groups?
While many, including myself, have legitimate concerns about the recently passed "Patriot Act" granting vast powers to law enforcement authorities to root out the menace of Islamic terrorism, those powers may also finally yield some results with regard to both ELF and ALF. Since 1996, the cost of their criminality is estimated at $43 million.
In January, ALF had the audacity to release its own report regarding its previous year of arsons, tree spikings, laboratory attacks and other illegal acts committed in the name of saving animals and the environment.
Prior to 9.11, their report cited 137 acts, among which was an arson causing $5.3 million in damage to the University of Washington in May, by far the most destructive act in 2001, excluding the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. ALF also took credit for an April $1.5 million arson in Washington State directed against an egg farm. The result of the UW attack was to destroy research involving trees, rare plants, wetlands and urban landscapes.
The roster of crimes committed by ALF and ELF included the smashing of windows at a Wendy's restaurant in Gaithersburg, MD, and a $700,000 arson at a cotton gin in Visalia, CA. In June, these groups smashed windows at a Bed, Bath & Beyond store in Salt Lake City, but it was New York and Texas that accounted for nearly half of all the animal rights actions with 17 incidents each. Fifteen other States and the District of Columbia also were subject to their domestic terrorism.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA) scheduled February 12th as a "National Day of Actions Against State Repression" to protest a congressional hearing held in Washington, DC. At that hearing, ALF/ELF spokesman, Craig Rosebraugh, evoked the Fifth Amendment fifty times in response to questions asked by subcommittee members.
Rep. Scott McInnis (R-CO), chairman of the hearing, called ALF/ELF members "hardened criminals." He described them, saying "They are dangerous, they are well-funded, they are savvy, sophisticated and stealthy, and if their violence continues to escalate, it is only a matter of time before their parade of terror results in a lost human life."
Only now has one industry affected by these terrorist acts begun a public campaign to focus attention on the dangers posed by ALF and ELF. In January, the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a coalition of restaurant and tavern operators announced they would underwrite an advertising campaign against what they called "notorious and extreme groups" that want to restrict people's food and beverage choices. They are taking aim at PeTA, Greenpeace, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
A 1992 congressional report by the US Office of Technology Assessment, entitled "The Terrorist Threat," quoted the FBI as saying, "PeTA leaders are reported to have acted as intermediaries to the press for the ALF, including distributing a videotape of an ALF break-in." One can only hope that elements of the Patriot Act will now be used to undertake a thorough investigation of PeTA and other such groups.
ALF, ELF and seemingly mainstream advocacy groups have been given free reign to undertake acts of terrorism or to seek public acceptance for such acts. That day must now end. They must been given the same priority as al Qaeda and other Muslim terrorists. Their objectives may differ, but their crimes do not.
Tom DeWeese is the publisher/editor of The DeWeese Report, a monthly newsletter on issues affecting the welfare of the nation. He is also president of the American Policy Center, a grassroots, activist think tank headquartered in Warrenton, VA.
Tom DeWeese
Bennett Raley, assistant secretary of water and science at the Department of Interior, is talking at the Public Interest and Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at 1 pm Friday, March 8 at the UO School of Law. Raley, a Bush appointee who oversees the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, shares the lunchtime keynote spot with Ralph Nader, the Green Party's 2000 presidential candidate.
"The Conference has always been a source of controversy and this year will be no different," says Jeff Kuyper, PIELC co-director. "Both Nader and Raley continue to have an impact on our nation's environmental policy, yet their perspectives could not be more opposite. This year's conference attendees will be treated to quite a show."
The PIELC Conference runs March 7-10. To register or for more information, visit www.pielc.uoreogn.edu
Even if these folks were easy to find, they are rootless, moneyless for the most part, and would do anything to sabotage those winning any judgement from getting any moneies paid them.
They have declared war on the system. Good luck getting blood from that turnip. I am betting no money is paid to Romania if they win the suit in that link.
Links are just instructions to a computer to open a new address on your machine.
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Practice with your preview screen to perfect making your links as you should always check them for function there anyways as when you post, it is too late to change it. Good luck, anyone can do it.
Beer and pizza - just like mine!
All PETAfiles are terrorists, Let's send them to Guantanamo Bay!
I have a more pre-Empire idea. Let's defund and then dismantal the EPA, abolish its functions, not outsource them. After that is complete, and I'm talking a year's time tops, we repeal all "Federal Land" EO's, which should be less than a week's work. Restart the Homesteading Act and then get the government the hell out of the way while we make productive use of the land, as is our right. In the meantime, we simply arrest any and all of these arsonists and vandals and put them in jail for long periods of time.
I know, pre-Empire ideas have little room in this the "Modern America", but call me a sentimentalist.
How did we get so far behind and out of the loop to let these people infiltate so much?
Consider the fact that these so called "scientists" will not be facing charges for these heinous acts. Now tell me, in light of this, can you tell who is really in charge here? Its not you or I, I'll tell you that much for free.
These screeching chimps will continue with their agenda unabated, since it serves the interests of the State so well. At such a time as they become irrelevent, and that's a long way in the future, they will be silenced. Until then, expect to hear their hoops and hollerin in the jungle for a long, long time.
Aside from ALF, ELF and PETA, Louis Farrakhan stands out as one of America's most preeminent terrorists. He rags his followers with speeches of hate and racism; he should thank his lucky stars that by accident of birth, he was born in America. What goes around comes around and tolerance only goes so far Mr. Farrakhan.
The real terrorists in America operate openly in Washington DC.
They spread terror around the world, aiding the internationalists in creating world rule. Beware of any group who appears to operate above the law and which are used as an excuse to create more laws that take your Freedom and threaten your Constitution.
God gave us a simple set of rules to live by.
1. You shall have no other gods.
2.You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God.
3. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not murder.
6. You shall not commit adultry.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbors house.
10. You shall not covet your neighbors wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
If we held our politicians to these laws, many of America's problems would disappear. Freedom and representitive governments would begin to grow around the world, instead of tyranny which our government is forcing on innocent peoples.
Why are we afraid to do the Right thing?
We have the power to change things for the better, and a God who would Love to help us. But we have to let Him into our lives.
It's past time to stand up with Jesus. After what He did for us we should bow our heads in shame and wait for condemnation. But His Love is eternal, so it's not too late to turn this around, yet.......
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