http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/elf/ en-us Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:12:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402349/posts According to a criminal complaint, 41-year -old Stephen Louis Olson of Backus was angry the county planned to log the trees. Cass County officials say the stand is thinned every ten to 15 years. About 100 of the 600 trees were slated to be cut down and sold this month. The money would have benefitted the community and school district. - Authorities say the entire forest must be cut down due to safety concerns. Mike Diekmann of the Cass County Sheriff's Office says that if a saw hit one of the nails, "it would explode like a gun going off"... kare11.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402349/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:12:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400241/posts MORROW, Ga. - A man dressed as an elf was jailed after he told a mall Santa that he was carrying dynamite, police said. Southlake Mall in suburban Atlanta was evacuated but no explosives were found. Police in Morrow, Ga., arrested 45-year-old William Caldwell, who was being held without bond Thursday in the Clayton County jail. He was not part of the mall's Christmas staff. pmsNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400241/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:09:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395955/posts DALI, China — Justin Franchi Solondz, an environmental activist from New Jersey who spent years evading charges of ecoterrorism in the United States by hiding out in China, was sentenced to three years in prison by a local court on Friday on charges of manufacturing drugs in this backpacker haven. After serving his time, Mr. Solondz, 30, who is on the F.B.I.’s wanted list, will be deported to the United States, where he faces charges stemming from what the authorities say was his role in an arson rampage that destroyed buildings in three western states as a member of a... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395955/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:19:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395691/posts DALI, China — Justin Franchi Solondz, an environmental activist from New Jersey who spent four years evading charges of ecoterrorism in the United States by hiding out in this backpacker haven, was convicted by a Chinese court on Friday of manufacturing drugs. After serving a three-year sentence, Mr. Solondz, 30, who is on the F.B.I.’s most wanted list, will be deported to the United States, where he faces charges stemming from what the authorities say was his role in an arson rampage that destroyed buildings in three western states as a member of a group related to the environmental extremist... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395691/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:54:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373041/posts Earth First! made headlines with its tree-spiking in the 1980s, but the guy who helped make the anti-logging tactic famous didn't invent it. Mike Roselle even titled one chapter of his new book "Why I Quit Spiking Trees." In it, the co-founder of Earth First!, the Rainforest Action Network and the Ruckus Society described how the practice brought old-growth timber cutting to national awareness, but became a public relations disaster for the protesters. "I think the Wobblies can take credit for it if they want, but it's been around as long as logging," Roselle said, referring to the Industrial Workers... Missoulian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373041/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:25:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366066/posts Craig Rosebraugh, a longtime activist, former Earth Liberation Front spokesman and former Portland restaurateur, has started up a new quarterly magazine: "Resistance, Journal of the Earth Liberation Movement."View full sizeDoug Beghtel/The Oregonian Craig Rosebraugh in 2000.The Arizona-based magazine isn't striving for mainstream balance; it describes itself as "radical" and names Shell oil company as its "Ecoterrorist of the Season." Today's release is the second edition, but Rosebraugh is describing it as a "national launch," saying the magazine is now available at Borders and hundreds of other stores in the United States and Canada after signing on with Disticor Distribution. Rosebraugh... The Oregonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366066/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:59:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355327/posts In 1999, Ian Wallace was elected king of Memorial High School's Winter Carnival and was named co-captain of the varsity hockey team. In 2003, he was named to the dean's list for his academic achievement as an anthropology student at the University of Minnesota. In between, he admitted to federal officials last year, Wallace attempted to firebomb two buildings at Michigan Technological University in an act of eco-terrorism. As a result, the former Memorial honor student and student council member is locked up in federal prison and not scheduled for release until Jan. 12, 2012. Ian J. Wallace, now 28,... Eau Claire Leader Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355327/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 18:10:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353763/posts Stephen James Murphy was detained in Texas by the FBI in connection with an incident in 2006 at a construction site for townhouses.The FBI has arrested an environmental activist in connection with the attempted arson of unfinished town homes in Pasadena in 2006, authorities said Thursday. Stephen James Murphy, 43, was arrested without incident Wednesday at his home in Arlington, Texas, after being named in a criminal complaint filed last week in U.S. District Court, said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. According to the complaint, the Pasadena Fire Department responded to a construction site on Sept. 19, 2006, and found what... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353763/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:23:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352253/posts At approximately 2 a.m. on Sept. 25, a small improvised explosive device (IED) consisting of three or four butane canisters was used to attack a Banamex bank branch in the Milpa Alta delegation of Mexico City. The device damaged an ATM and shattered the bank's front windows. It was not an isolated event. The bombing was the seventh recorded IED attack in the Federal District - and the fifth such attack against a local bank branch - since the beginning of September. The attack was claimed in a communique posted to a Spanish-language anarchist Web site by a group calling... rightsidenews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2352253/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 05:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349897/posts The Herald newspaper says the graffiti sprayed on buildings associated with the Skotdal family is visible from Highway 522. The message appears to be a followup to last month’s sabotage at the KRKO (1380) transmitter site that toppled a whole tower. It says, in part: “MBA KRKO/Snotdol [sic] Empire. If you continue to risk killing children, mother earth and her creations, all your holdings are targets.“ This extra-long graffiti message ends this way: "Authentic ELF [Earth Liberation Front]? Ask ATF/FBI about restricted water mains. Little water, better burn. ELF.” KRKO recently turned on its new 50-kw daytime facility, a move... radio-info.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349897/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339746/posts PORTLAND, Ore. - Vandals in Portland targeted some pretty pricey cars over night, throwing acid or paint stripper all over them. No one has claimed responsibility, and there's no telling just how many people were involved. The damage to as many as 15 cars is expensive. Here's one, a Hummer from the besieged Vic Alfonso Cadillac Dealership in Northeast Portland. You can see a number of spots where the paint is now peeling off the car. A sociology professor at Portland State University said there are plenty of reasons that could have motivated the vandals to do all of... KATU News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339746/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:51:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333312/posts When I heard about the ELF group's latest acts of terrorism immediately the first question that popped into my head was "well what kinds of books do they read?"...... little did I know how brilliant that really was. For those around me who may have forgotten, Jim David Adkisson who shot up the Tennessee Unitarian Church also read books from O'Reilly and a few others, and when the drive by media found out this fact they proceeded to morph the discussion of despicable acts into one of their usual political rallies against their enemies in talk radio. The shooting itself... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333312/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 12:50:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333292/posts A group cited by U.S. officials as a domestic terrorism threat claimed responsibility Friday for knocking down two radio station towers in Snohomish County, Washington. Much of the tower system, owned by radio station KRKO, was "flattened like a pancake," the manager said. Much of the tower system, owned by radio station KRKO, was "flattened like a pancake," the manager said. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) issued a statement saying opponents of the towers argue that "AM radio waves cause adverse health effects including a higher rate of cancer, harm to wildlife, and that the signals have been interfering with... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333292/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 11:58:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332252/posts EVERETT, Wash. — Two radio station towers toppled after someone used a piece of heavy equipment to knock them down. Everett radio station KRKO's General Manager Andy Skotdal says a sign left at the scene Friday says ELF, likely a reference to the Earth Liberation Front. FoxNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332252/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:47:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332344/posts Radical Ecoterrorist Group Topples Two Radio Towers Near Seattle EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - Two radio station towers were toppled early Friday, and the station's manager said an ecoterrorist group's initials were left at the scene. A sign bearing the letters ELF was found near the towers, said Andy Skotdal, general manager of KRKO Radio in Everett, about 25 miles north of Seattle. The Earth Liberation Front is a loose collection of radical environmentalists that has claimed responsibility for dozens of attacks since the 1990s. However, Snohomish County sheriff's office spokeswoman Rebecca Hover wouldn't confirm that a sign was found. A... AP via Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332344/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 19:32:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289841/posts By Megan Sweeney KPIC News Video ROSEBURG, Ore. -- In what is believed to be connected to the logging protest near Reedsport, patrol officers and detectives responded to the Home Depot in Roseburg after 40-50 protesters entered the business. According to police, the group used the store's public address system, moved displays around and put up a banner that said "Dam the Home Depot, Save Chile's Rivers." Several subjects were taken away from the property but no arrests were made. Police believe this protest is connected with the logging protest near Reedsport. Members of the groups Earth First! and Cascadia... KPIC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2289841/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:17:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2277686/posts FIRST PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L_p14_Nu8Q http://serve.gov/ In "What Interests You?" I typed Defense In "Where WOuld You Like To Volunteer?" I Typed New York This brought me to these results http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=defense&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=new%20york&timeperiod=everything&cache=1 Very first result was for Earth And Animal Liberation Support So I clicked it Which lead me to here http://www.idealist.org/if/i/en/av/VolunteerOpportunity/85193-103/c This is the description Earth and Animal Liberation Support Location: New York, New York, 10013, United States Organization: Wetlands Activism Collective Start date: May 31, 2002 Sex: All are welcome Skill(s): legal Last updated: June 20, 2009 End date: December 31, 2010 Age: Adults (18-64), Seniors (65... SaveOurSovereignty3 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2277686/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:05:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234867/posts An American vegan who has made it his life’s mission to shut down a British animal-testing company has become the first domestic terrorist to be listed on the FBI’s most-wanted list of terror suspects. The name of Daniel Andreas San Diego, who is accused of carrying out the 2003 bombings of two US companies affiliated with Huntingdon Life Sciences, of Cambridgeshire, is listed alongside the likes of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Adam Yahiye Gadahn. San Diego, who is shown on the FBI’s most-wanted poster with short brown hair and glasses, is said to have several unusual tattoos that... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234867/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 02:31:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233979/posts The FBI on Tuesday will for the first time add the name of a domestic-terrorism suspect to its list of Most Wanted Terrorists, a post-Sept. 11 creation that until now has included only suspected Islamist terrorists, a law enforcement official told The Washington Times. Daniel Andreas San Diego, a 31-year-old animal rights activist, is wanted in connection with the 2003 bombings of two companies in the San Francisco Bay Area linked to an animal-testing laboratory. San Diego will take his place on a list that has included notorious international terrorists such as Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahri and Adam Gadahn,... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233979/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:13:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217922/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/de032709.htm The United States Attorney's Office Western District of Michigan Press Release SENTENCING IN 2001 ECO-TERRORISM ATTEMPT AT MICHIGAN MARQUETTE, MI—Ian Jacob Wallace, 27, of East Setauket, New York, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell to serve three years in Federal prison for his role in the November 5, 2001, attempted fire-bombing of U.S. Forest Service property located on the campus of Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, U.S. Attorney Donald A. Davis announced today. Wallace, who committed the offense on behalf of the activist environmental group known... Detroit.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2217922/posts#comment Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:07:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213140/posts Two environmental extremists have been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $4.1 million in restitution for their role in a Michigan State University (MSU) arson that caused more than $1 million in damage. Marie Mason, of Cincinnati, and Frank Ambrose, of Detroit, were sentenced in February 2009 and October 2008, respectively, on charges relating to an explosion and fire at MSU's Agriculture Hall on New Year's Eve 1999. The arson was the most serious incident in a series of criminal acts the couple carried out on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), the most... adl http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213140/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:32:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213120/posts Ian Wallace is a graduate student in anthropology in New York who has studied fossils in Kenya, combed excavations in Syria and France and written about his research in scholarly journals. But next week, he will be sentenced to federal prison for trying to blow up two buildings at a Michigan university in 2001 when he was a radical eco-saboteur. It is another case of federal agents catching up to people who formerly were passionate members of the Earth Liberation Front, known as ELF. "Ian Wallace's past has come back to harm him," The FBI contacted him in January 2007... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213120/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:06:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2204727/posts An article on Iceland's de facto bankruptcy in the April issue of Vanity Fair notes that a "large number of Icelanders" believe in elves or "hidden people." This widespread folklore occasionally disrupts business in the sparsely populated North Atlantic country. Before the aluminum company Alcoa could erect a smelting factory, "it had to defer to a government expert to scour the enclosed plant site and certify that no elves were on or under it." How do you find an elf? With psychic powers. According to a poll conducted in 2007, 54 percent of Icelanders don't deny the existence of elves... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2204727/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:24:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196781/posts Vandals who claim to act in the name of animal rights and the environment are expanding their targets from laboratories and constructon sites that offend them to homes and cars of those with whom they disagree. On Feb. 19 in Tucson, a UA researcher had her water valve cemented shut and a mining company employee had her car tires flattened and her windows etched with hateful sayings. A press release posted on the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center site by a group calling itself "Tucson H.A.A.N.D." or "Hooligans Attack at Night, Duh," claimed responsibility for the acts. It... Arizona Daily Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196781/posts#comment Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:26:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181057/posts A radical activist who helped set a $1 million fire to protest research on genetically modified crops was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison _ even more than the prosecution recommended. Marie Mason decided to "elevate her grievances beyond the norms of civilized society" through fire and destruction, U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney said. The case _ which was prosecuted as domestic terrorism _ was "about an abandonment of the marketplace of ideas," he added. -snip At MSU, Mason and Ambrose targeted a campus office that held records on research related to moth-resistant potatoes for poor parts of... AP/CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181057/posts#comment Sun, 8 Feb 2009 19:14:33 GMT