Police warn of growing threat from eco-terrorists

It seems that this article is trying to label all animal rights activists as some form of terrorist. A small group of animal rights extremists are hurting the work real animal rights activists are doing.

Animal rights activists hate the extremists in their group. For instance, at UCSC, there was an incident of a small group of people who believed in animal rights decided to pipe bombed a scientist's car and sent death threats to his family and home. Later on, they proudly proclaimed their acts. Of course, these are the morons whom are using violence that actually bring down their own cause and the work of others. The animal rights activists denounced these acts of violence.

if they die for their cause, that is their cause, right?

agro terrorists have taken a vacation. why?
because the government is already doing the job for them by destroying the very ground we use to support life. Get real, the police dont know what the fuck is goin on. The real menace is the corporate farm industry making Americans fat, unhealthy, and completely out of touch from nature.

Hell yeah! Where do I sign up? not down to kill but if nothing else produce some publicity that these companies are major contributors to the degradation of a community!

Well, the terror alerts have been waning for a while, so they've got to justify the millions they're spending some how...eco-terrorists...surely a large explosion isn't great for the environment?

Just so you understand this issue is not the making of government. Government on the hole try to give the impression they are a turnkey solution. However In matters of national defence other organisation take presidenc over just this very issue. The one’s we know are MI5 and MI6 then it becomes a little obscured.

What happens when an interconnected system self-organizes to form more intelligent, more adaptive higher-level behaviour. The eco-terrorists is ploughed in the media because of this reason. Small groups of society have finally reached a state of consciousness and understands the lengths capitalism will go to maintain the system. Take a company whose responsibility it is to produce nuclear energy. If by its nature you know it to be detrimental and unsustainable a high risk to all around it. And the engineers who prefabricated its creation knew this also. Why then is it so widely used.

this is one of the most recent acts of mis information blooming again from .uk

there is no such thing as a mass murderer ecologist / conservationist / earth respecting person. if one is to respect earth, one must respect all things, including people! plus, given this social structure, why use the ultimate punishment towards those who suffer the direct consequences of the uncaring action of those abusing power during the past century? its illogical, and "eco people" are pretty much the exact opposite.

it is worrisome that subtle articles posted on semi prestigious news channels can actually be directly linked to ways of thinking that try to continue validating that which we are trying to change from.

there are still many who do not want the shift to happen and continue playing the cat and mouse game, believing time can only be on their side

if society does not revolt, well, maybe nature will not be that permissive

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

sounds like a corporate driven message to end or lessen protesting for environmental concerns

Good! hit em' where it hurts, the wallet. These groups aren't killing people, they're just causing millions of dollars in property damage. What are you doing for the planet?

Heh, eco-terrorists. People cared about them back in the 1990s.

Terrorist or Warrior.
That label depends on where you are coming from right?

Same could defo be said about our operations down in Panama.

Funny how things get so turned around...
Look into the defo of the Tarot card "Hanngged man"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanged_Man

There will soon be many graduates of the USA military with advanced skills in intelligence gathering, target acquisition techniques and technical tactical ability hitting the streets.
Many will have grudges against the MIC, many will simply want to fix the country, some will be joining/organising/settingup orgs like many perceive EFL to be, some will just freelance picking targets of opportunity. This will add more fuel to the growth of the police state.
This will justify the rich folk segregating themselves on the hilltops.

http://www.earthfirst.org/

* My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
o George Hayduke in The Monkey Wrench Gang, pg. 200 (1975)

* One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
o Seldom Seen Smith in The Monkey Wrench Gang, pg. 313

* Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
o Abbey's Road (1979)

* We're all undesireable elements from somebody's point of view.
o Abbey's Road

* May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
o Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey (1994)

* Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
o Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

" Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. "

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. "

Viva Edward Abbey

Yeah syork2, or the government is pre-empting their own population control. I wouldn't doubt it.

2012 here we come. Good or bad you're along for the ride so stop talking shit.

Now they're just making shit up! This is so stupid!

All the government cares about is business and property, not people! They're just trying to scare people into thinking that direct-action environmentalists are going to kill everyone! Ridiculous!

Such fucking bullshit.

Neither Earth First! (which is just a publication in this day and age, one stark sign that this article is bullshit), nor any other environmental direct action group, such as the ALF/ELF (which aren't even groups), has ever killed any life. The burden of proof is on the accusers to show me a case where an animal, whether human or non-human, has been killed by these groups.

Now our current economic system on the other hand doesn't fare that well when analysed from this viewpoint, murdering human and non-human animals every single day.

You want terrorism, go look at our militaries, go look at right wing nationalist orgs., go look at our corporations. This article is such fearmongering bullshite.

I know there is a fringe element out there but I feel like this piece is trying to paint most environmentalists as extremists. Where the hell did they come up with the idea that they have to eliminate four fifths of the population too? I think there needs to be some hard evidence before they go painting a group as wanting to commit mass genocide in order to save the planet.

'They are doing research of possible targets, looking at shareholders and financiers. For example, they could research an airline and see how many of its aircraft are not environmentally friendly,' said the NETCU source.

Although green extremists have yet to embark on an orchestrated campaign of violence in the UK, officers warn that they may be about to launch a campaign of intimidation and fear aimed at disrupting businesses. 'For some people, if they can justify it in their minds, then it's a noble cause even if it's a criminal action. They haven't started yet, but we believe they will come up with a strategy and tactics,' said the source at the unit, who described the movement as well-funded and organised.

A spate of recent attacks, for which Earth First! supporters have claimed responsibility, has included vandalism of branches of seven German banks such as Deutsche Bank and Allianz AG. The actions were apparently because the banks hold shares in UK Coal, which plans to build new coal-fired power stations.

A statement on the Earth First! website explains the attacks by saying: 'Exploitation of the environment and people by the state and industry go hand in hand. They cannot be separated and both must be attacked. Social war, not climate chaos.'

Another attack hit a quarry in Staffordshire which belongs to Bardon Aggregates, a company hat also owns a controversial quarry at Glensanda on the north-west coast of Scotland. The Scottish quarry is accused of spoiling the Highlands environment. The Earth First! website states: 'We slashed tyres, stripped paint jobs, glued locks and trashed conveyor belts. All the earth movers were hit and many of the cement and aggregate trucks. This action cost us very little but should cost Bardon thousands.'

Among the network of groups under the Earth First! umbrella are various climate camps. Last August police found a stash of knives and weapons beside one such camp in Kent. Protesters, however, said they had nothing to do with the weapons and accused police of launching a 'smear campaign'.

A spokesman for Derby Earth First! said the movement was strictly non-violent, if not always law-abiding. He said: 'If someone does ecological damage we would perhaps break the law and protect the ecology, but the ecology also includes humans.

'We're all about communities. Capitalism is the problem and we want to return to a more sustainable time. But we are not about reducing the population, that is just scaremongering by the police.'

The rise of eco-extremism coincides with the fall of the animal rights activist movement. Police said the animal rights movement was in 'disarray' and that its ringleaders had either been prosecuted or were awaiting prosecution, adding that its 'critical mass' of hardcore extremists was sufficiently depleted to have halted its effectiveness. Last Thursday a prominent animal rights activist accused of planting petrol bombs at Oxford University was cleared of possessing an explosive substance with intent.

Reports on the Earth First! Journal website, which tells users how to send encrypted emails, reveals connections to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) which has been linked to a series of violent attacks in the US. ELF was classified as the top domestic terrorism threat in the US by the FBI in March 2001.

The ELF was founded in 1992 in Brighton by members of the Earth First! movement who wanted to form a breakaway group that would use more extreme tactics.