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September 13, 2003

�If you build it � we will burn it�

That is the slogan of the eco-terrorists group known as �ELF.� In the last few years, these home-made terrorists have not only been causing untold millions of dollars in damage, but have also been committing murder for �crimes against nature.� Ted Kacynski�s �revolution against the industrial system� is just one example of their methods, along with assassinating political opponents, and large-scale harassment and intimidation campaigns against American companies. A few years ago, they went after an insurer of a drug-testing company:

Employees have had their homes vandalized with spray-painted �Puppy killer� and �We'll be back� notices. They have faced a mounting number of death threats, fire bombings and violent assaults. They've had their names, addresses and personal information posted on Web sites and posters, declaring them �wanted for collaboration with animal torture.�

While the scale of death and destruction caused by eco-terrorism has been growing, neither the police nor any federal agencies have pursued these groups with any seriousness, in large part due to the political power of the environmentalist movement.
Earlier today, a terrorist was finally arrested in CA for causing over $1 million dollars in damage. Their bold-faced lies are astounding:

[The offender�s] roommate insisted he had no role in the vandalism.
"We absolutely condemn it," she told the Daily Bulletin. "We think it was wrong. We're peace activists. We feel like we're being unfairly targeted because we disagree with our government."
Lopez said the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were continuing an investigation of federal crimes, which would be added to Connole's state crimes charges. The FBI, after the arson and vandalism spree, released surveillance video from a Ford dealership in Duarte that showed two young men spray-painting SUVS.

Despite the scale of violence coming from these groups, a much more serious threat to our lives comes from the non-violent mainstream movement, which is just as dedicated to the wholesale destruction of human life. I think Glenn Woiceshyn sums it up best:

Since man survives only by conquering nature, man is an inherent threat to the "intrinsic value" of nature and must therefore be eliminated. Environmentalism makes man the endangered species.

(Read on for several of the more interesting crimes perpetrated by eco-terrorists.)

JULY 21, 1997
Redmond, Ore.
The ALF and ELF used napalm which they referred to as �vegan Jell-O� - to destroy the Cavel West horse slaughtering plant.

OCT. 1999
�An ALF faction known as the Justice Department took credit for sending over 80 razor blade-laced envelopes, each containing a threatening letter with a picture of a bomb on it, to animal researchers, hunting guides and others in the United States and Canada. An ALF communiqu� said some of the razor blades, which were positioned so as to slice open the fingers of anyone opening the envelopes, were coated in rat poison.�

MARCH 30, 2001
Eugene, Ore.
Thirty SUVs at Joe Romania's car dealership were torched, causing about $1 million in damage. The ELF said the attack was in support of Jeff �Free� Luers, who was serving a 23-year prison sentence, in part for torching cars at the same dealership.

MAY 21, 2001
Seattle, Wash.
The ALF set fire to the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture, causing $5.6 million in damage and wrecking years of research on genetically altered poplar trees and similar projects.

JULY 4, 2001
Detroit, Mich.
The ELF torched an executive office of logging giant Weyerhauser to protest the company's part in funding Oregon State University and the University of Washington's poplar and cottonwood genetic engineering research.

JULY 24, 2001
Sands Point, N.Y.
The �Pirates for Animal Liberation� claimed responsibility for unsuccessfully trying to sink a Bank of New York employee's 21-foot boat.

JAN. 29, 2002
St. Paul, Minn.
The ELF claimed a $250,000 arson at the University of Minnesota's Microbial and Plat Genomics Research Center, which was under construction.

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