Eco-terrorism

Last updated

Eco-terrorism is an act of violence which is committed in support of environmental causes, against people or property. [1] [2]

Contents

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines eco-terrorism as "...the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or their property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature." [3] The FBI attributed eco-terrorists to US $200 million in property damage between 2003 and 2008. A majority of states in the US have introduced laws aimed at penalizing eco-terrorism. [4]

Eco-terrorism is a form of radical environmentalism that arose out of the same school of thought that brought about deep ecology, ecofeminism, social ecology, and bioregionalism. [5]

History

The term ecoterrorism was not coined until the 1960s; however, the history of ecoterrorism precedes that time. Although not referred to as ecoterrorism at the time, there have been incidents in history of people using terror to protect or defend the environment. It can be seen in the War of Desmoiselles, or War of the Maidens. The War of the Demoiselles was a series of peasant revolts in response to the new forest codes implemented by the French government in 1827. [6] In May 1829 groups of peasant men dressed in women's clothes terrorized forest guards and charcoal-makers who they felt had wrongfully taken the land to exploit it. The revolts persisted for four years until May 1832.

This particular instance is considered an act of eco-terrorism due to the fact that the peasants used tactics similar to modern day eco-terrorist groups. The peasants of Ariege masked their identities and committed acts of terror. They specifically targeted government officials who infringed on the rights of the forest; however, this is considered a pre-history[ clarification needed ] rather than an actual act of eco-terrorism due to the fact that the peasants weren't environmentalist. The peasants committed their acts to protect the environment because they felt they had a claim to it due to it being their main source of income and way of life for generations.

Instances of pre-ecoterrorism can also be found in the age of colonialism and imperialism. Native and indigenous people didn't have the same view on land as property that Europeans did. When the Europeans colonized other foreign lands they believed that the natives were not using the land properly. Land was something that was meant to be profited and capitalized off of. Oftentimes natives would engage in warfare to protect their land. This is similar to the way that modern day environmentalists fight to protect land from major corporations aiming to deforest land to build factories. An example of Europeans infringing on the rights of natives can be found in the colonial administration of Algeria. When the French colonized Algeria they took the land from natives because they believed they were not using it properly, claiming that their nomadic lifestyle was damaging to the environment in order to justify their usurping of the land; however, the natives of Algeria engaged in battles in order to try and keep their land and lifestyle. [7]

Eco-terrorism, civil disobedience, and sabotage

Eco-terrorism is often defined as the use of violence to further environmental policy change. Eco-terrorists are willing to inflict emotional and physical distress on their victims if they believe it will further their environmental goals. This more radical version of environmental action is illegal, as compared to its more moderate forerunner of eco-activism which is not illegal and would be classified as a form of civil disobedience and uses protests, sit ins and other civil actions to effect environmental change. Eco-terrorism can also include sabotage in the name of the environment, which is illegal as this includes crimes against property which could lead to harm to humans. In the United States, the FBI's definition of terrorism includes acts of violence against property, which makes most acts of sabotage fall in the realm of domestic terrorism. [8]

Many radical environmentalists contest the FBI's definition of eco-terrorism for being inaccurate to other definitions of terrorism such as that of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism which states that acts of terrorism are only those purposely directed at civilians. [9] Radical environmentalists also criticize conflation of eco-terrorism with ecotage by governments and media as rhetorical tools to take advantage of preconceived notions about terrorism and apply them to acts which do not fit what terrorism really is. [10]

Sabotage involves destroying, or threatening to destroy, property, and in this case is also known as monkeywrenching [5] or ecotage. [11] Many acts of sabotage involve the damage of equipment and unmanned facilities using arson. [8]

Philosophy

The thought behind eco-terrorism rises from the radical environmentalism movement, which gained currency during the 1960s. [5] Ideas that arose from radical environmentalism are "based on the belief that capitalism, patriarchal society, and the industrial revolution and its subsequent innovations were responsible for the despoliation of nature". [5] Radical environmentalism is also characterized by the belief that human society is responsible for the depletion of the environment and, if current society is left unchecked, will lead to the ultimate complete degradation of the environment. [12] Craig Rosebraugh, spokesperson of the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front, justifies destructive or violent direct action as necessary evils in response to the lack of action regarding environmentalist efforts. Rosebraugh cites a "choice-of-evils defense" and asks whether it is a "greater evil to destroy this property of this corporation or to choose to allow these corporations to continue to destroy the environment" [13]

Many of the groups accused of eco-terrorism spawn from the radical environmentalist philosophy of deep ecology. Deep ecologists believe that human self-realization must come from identification with the greater environment. Deep ecology calls for complete solidarity with the environment and therefore categorizes many conservation groups as "shallow", encouraging more drastic approaches to environmental activism. Biocentrism is a central tenet of deep ecology [14] which is described as "a belief that human beings are just an ordinary member of the biological community" and that all living things should have rights and deserve protection under the law. [15] Other eco-terrorists are motivated by different aspects of deep ecology, like the goal to return the environment to its "natural", i.e., pre-industrial, state. [16]

Examples of tactics

There are a wide variety of tactics used by eco-terrorists and groups associated with eco-terrorism. Examples include:

Notable individuals convicted of eco-terrorist crimes

Groups accused

Organizations accused of eco-terrorism are generally grassroots organizations, do not have a hierarchal structure, and typically favor direct action approaches to their goals. [15]

Stefan Leader characterizes these groups, namely ELF, with having "leaderless resistance" which he describes as "a technique by which terrorist groups can carry out violent acts while reducing the risk of infiltration by law enforcement elements. The basic principle of leaderless resistance is that there is no centralized authority or chain-of-command." [16] Essentially this consists of independent cells which operate autonomously, sharing goals, but having no central leaders or formal organizational structure. Those who wish to join are typically encouraged to start their own cell, rather than seek out other members and jeopardize their secrecy. [16]

Organizations in the United States

Organizations that have been accused of eco-terrorism in the United States include the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), [3] the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), [3] the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Earth First!, [5] The Coalition to Save the Preserves, and the Hardesty Avengers. [3] [22] In 2010, the FBI was criticized in U.S. Justice Department reports for unjustified surveillance (and placement on the Terrorism Watchlist) of about 2000 members of animal rights and environmentalist groups such as Greenpeace and PETA. [23]

In a 2002 testimony to the US Congress, an FBI official mentioned the actions of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in the context of eco-terrorism. [3] The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society intervenes against whaling, seal hunting, and fishing operations with direct action tactics. In 1986, the group caused nearly US$1.8 million in damage to equipment used by Icelandic whalers. [5] In 1992, they sabotaged two Japanese ships that were drift-net fishing for squid by cutting their nets and throwing stink bombs on board the boats. [15]

Inspired by Edward Abbey, Earth First! began in 1980. Although the group has been credited with becoming more mainstream, its use of tree spiking during campaigns has been associated with the origins of eco-terrorism. [5] [24] In 1990, Earth First! organizers Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were injured when a motion-detecting pipe bomb detonated beneath Bari's driver seat. Authorities alleged that the bomb was being transported and accidentally detonated. The pair sued investigators, alleging false arrest, illegal search, slanderous statements and conspiracy. In 2002, a jury found that FBI agents and Oakland police officers violated constitutional rights to free speech and protection from unlawful searches of Earth First! organizers. [25]

The Earth Liberation Front, founded in 1992, joined with the Animal Liberation Front, which had its beginnings in England in 1979. [5] They have been connected primarily with arson but claim that they work to harm neither human nor animal. [5] A recent example of ELF arson was the March 2008 "torching of luxury homes in the swank Seattle suburb of Woodinville". [26] A banner left at the scene claimed the housing development was not green as advertised, and was signed ELF. [27] In September 2009 ELF claimed responsibility for the destruction of two radio towers in Seattle. [28] The FBI in 2001 named the ELF as "one of the most active extremist elements in the United States", and a "terrorist threat." [3] The Coalition to Save the Preserves was mentioned in FBI testimony as a group that was responsible for a series of arsons in Arizona. Using similar tactics to the ELF, they have caused more than US$5 million in damages. [3]

Media reports have tied Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, to environmental activists, and say that the 23 injuries and three deaths through letter-bombs were the acts of an independent eco-terrorist. Among those making such accusations were ABC, The New York Times, Time magazine, and USA Today. [29]

A number of "local" organizations have also been indicted under US Federal laws related to eco-terrorism. These include, among others, the group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. Another example is the Hardesty Avengers who spiked trees in the Hardesty Mountains in Willamette National Forest in 1984. [22]

In 2008 the Federal Bureau of Investigation said eco-terrorists represented "one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today" citing the sheer volume of their crimes (over 2,000 since 1979); the huge economic impact (losses of more than US$110 million since 1979); the wide range of victims (from international corporations to lumber companies to animal testing facilities to genetic research firms); and their increasingly violent rhetoric and tactics (one recent communiqué sent to a California product testing company said: "You might be able to protect your buildings, but can you protect the homes of every employee?"). [30]

Unclear, however, is the extent informants and controversial FBI entrapment operations play in creating eco-terrorist groups and furthering criminal acts. In 2015, so-called "green anarchist" Eric McDavid was freed from a 2007 conviction after it was disclosed the FBI operated a program to lure unsuspecting activists via "blatant entrapment." [31] The 2007 conviction had been cited by the FBI in its 2008 claim eco-terrorism was a significant threat.

The National Animal Interest Alliance in their animal rights extremism archives compiled a comprehensive list of major animal rights extremist and eco-criminal acts of terrorism since 1983. [32]

US governmental response

Spiking trees became a federal offense in the United States when it was added to the Drug Act in 1988. [33]

Under the Animal Enterprise Protection Act of 1992 it became a federal crime to "cause more than $10,000 in damage while engaged in "physical disruption to the functioning of an animal enterprise by intentionally stealing, damaging, or causing the loss of any property […] used by the animal enterprise." [5] In 2006, this was updated and renamed the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act by the 109th congress. [34] The updated act included causing personal harm and the losses incurred on "secondary targets" as well as adding to the penalties for these crimes.

In 2003, a conservative legislative lobbying group, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), proposed the "Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act" which defined an "animal rights or ecological terrorist organization" [30] as "two or more persons organized for the purpose of supporting any politically motivated activity intended to obstruct or deter any person from participating in an activity involving animals or an activity involving natural resources." [35] The legislation was not enacted.

The FBI has stated that "since 2005…investigations have resulted in indictments against 30 individuals." In 2006, an FBI case labeled "Operation Backfire" brought charges of domestic terrorism to eleven people associated with the ELF and ALF. "The indictment includes charges related to arson, conspiracy, use of destructive devices, and destruction of an energy facility." [36] Operation Backfire was a result of the 1998 burning of a ski resort in Vail, Colorado by the group, "The Family." The incident resulted in $26 million in damages. The FBI joined together with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to convict the individuals and any future eco-terrorist groups. [37]

However, the Bush Justice Department, including the FBI, was criticized in 2010 for improper investigations and prosecutions of left-leaning US protest groups such as Greenpeace. The Washington Post reported that the "FBI improperly opened and extended investigations of some U.S. activist groups and put members of an environmental advocacy organization on a terrorist watch list, even though they were planning nonviolent civil disobedience, the Justice Department said Monday." [38]

A report, filed by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, found the FBI to be not guilty of the most serious charge — according to the Post — that "agents targeted domestic groups based on their exercise of First Amendment rights." The investigation was conducted in response to allegations that the FBI had targeted groups on such grounds during the Bush Administration. The Post continued:

But the report cited what it called other "troubling" FBI practices in its monitoring of domestic groups in the years between the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and 2006. In some cases, Fine said, agents began investigations of people affiliated with activist groups for 'factually weak' reasons and 'without adequate basis' and improperly kept information about activist groups in its files. Among the groups monitored were the Thomas Merton Center, a Pittsburgh peace group; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; and Greenpeace USA. Activists affiliated with Greenpeace were improperly put on a terrorist watch list, the report said. [38]

See also

Related Research Articles

Radical environmentalism is a grass-roots branch of the larger environmental movement that emerged from an ecocentrism-based frustration with the co-option of mainstream environmentalism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Earth First!</span> Environmental advocacy group

Earth First! is a radical environmental advocacy group that originated in the Southwestern United States. It was founded in 1980 by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar. Today there are Earth First groups around the world including ones in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Craig Rosebraugh</span> American writer, filmmaker and activist

Craig Rosebraugh is an American writer, filmmaker and activist advocating for political and social justice, and environmental and animal protection.

Ecotage is sabotage carried out for environmental reasons.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rod Coronado</span> American animal rights and environmental activist

Rodney Adam Coronado is an American animal rights and environmental activist known for his militant direct actions in the late 1980s and 1990s. As part of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he sank two whaling ships and destroyed Iceland's sole whale-processing facility in 1986. He led the Animal Liberation Front's Operation Bite Back campaign against the fur industry and its supporting institutions in the early 1990s, which was involved in multiple firebombings. Following an attack on a Michigan State University mink research center in early 1992, Coronado was jailed for nearly five years. He later admitted to being the sole perpetrator. The 1992 federal Animal Enterprise Protection Act was created in response to his actions. The operation continued with a focus on liberating animals rather than property destruction. Coronado also worked with Earth First.

Leaderless resistance, or phantom cell structure, is a social resistance strategy in which small, independent groups, or individuals, challenge an established institution such as a law, economic system, social order, or government. Leaderless resistance can encompass anything from non-violent protest and civil disobedience to vandalism, terrorism, and other violent activity.

Tre Arrow is a green anarchist who gained prominence in the U.S. state of Oregon in the late 1990s and early 2000s for his environmental activism, bid for Congress as a Pacific Green Party candidate, and then for his arrest and later conviction for committing acts of arson on cement and logging trucks. He unsuccessfully sought political asylum in Canada, and was extradited to Portland, Oregon, on February 29, 2008, to face 14 counts of arson and conspiracy. These actions were claimed as acts of protest by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). On June 3, 2008, Arrow pleaded guilty to 2 counts of arson and was sentenced with 78 months in prison. He was released to a halfway house in 2009.

The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) has taken a variety of criminal actions since 1992. Actions were rarely publicised prior to 1996 and are therefore difficult to find.

Operation Backfire is a multi-agency criminal investigation, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), into destructive acts in the name of animal rights and environmental causes in the United States described as eco-terrorism by the FBI. The operation resulted in convictions and imprisonment of a number of people, many of whom were members of the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Green Scare</span> US government action against the radical environmental movement

The Green Scare is legal action by the US government against the radical environmental movement, that occurred mostly in the 2000s. It alludes to the Red Scares, periods of fear over communist infiltration of US society.

Darren Todd Thurston is a former Canadian animal rights activist.

William Courtney Rodgers, also known as Bill Rodgers and Avalon, was an environmental activist, animal rights activist and a co-proprietor of the Catalyst Infoshop in Prescott, Arizona, US. He was one of six environmental activists arrested December 7, 2005 as part of the FBI's Operation Backfire. His charge was one count of arson for a June 1998 fire set by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) at the National Wildlife Research Center in Olympia, Washington. He was found dead in his jail cell on December 21, 2005. According to police, Rodgers committed suicide using a plastic bag.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel G. McGowan</span> American environmental activist

Daniel Gerard McGowan is an American environmental activist, formerly associated with the Earth Liberation Front. The U.S. government considers him a domestic terrorist, having been arrested and charged in federal court on multiple counts of arson and conspiracy, relating to the arson of Superior Lumber company in Glendale, Oregon, on January 2, 2001, and Jefferson Poplar Farms in Clatskanie, Oregon, on May 21, 2001. His arrest is part of what the FBI dubbed Operation Backfire.

Eric McDavid is an American green anarchist who was convicted of conspiring to use fire or explosives to damage corporate and government property and sentenced to 20 years in prison. His story is the meaning behind the Tom Gabel song Anna is a stool pigeon. While U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott has called McDavid the first person in the U.S. to be prosecuted on Earth Liberation Front (ELF)-related charges, the trial revealed that McDavid's group had not decided whether or not to claim the planned actions in the name of the ELF. On January 8, 2015, after he spent eight years and 360 days in prison, McDavid's conviction was overturned after the prosecution conceded that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had withheld thousands of pages of potentially exculpatory evidence.

The Earth Liberation Army (ELA), similar to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), is the collective name for anonymous and autonomous individuals or groups that use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the natural environment", commonly known as ecotage or monkeywrenching. The name was first used in Canada, in 1995, which was the first Earth liberation direct action in North America, three years after the ELF had been founded in England. The ELA is also a radical, anarchist, leaderless movement, although in contrast to the ELF, the first group did not publish any guidelines. The ELA are considered to be "eco-terrorists" by governments, and are also known to also be active in the United States.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Animal Liberation Front</span> Animal rights direct action organization

The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an international, leaderless, decentralized movement that emerged in Britain in the 1970s, evolving from the Bands of Mercy. It operates without a formal leadership structure and engages in direct actions aimed at opposing animal cruelty.

The seminal work of fiction featuring eco-terrorism as a major focal point is Edward Abbey's 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, wherein a group of environmentalists disrupt various projects that are damaging to the environment. The novel inspired the Earth First! movement and directly influenced the Earth Liberation Front. The term "monkeywrenching", in the sense of sabotage, derives from the book. The 1985 film Pale Rider, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, likewise frames eco-terrorism positively; in the film, the vigilante justice morality which is a common feature of the Western genre is applied to environmentally destructive mining practices. In contrast, Michael Crichton's 2004 novel State of Fear portrays eco-terrorists—in this case a group of environmentalists who seek to raise awareness about anthropogenic global warming by creating extreme weather events—in a negative light.

The Earth Liberation Front (ELF), also known as "Elves" or "The Elves", is the collective name for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use "economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deep Green Resistance</span> Radical environmental movement

Deep Green Resistance (DGR) is a radical environmental movement that perceives the existence of industrial civilization itself as the greatest threat to the natural environment, and calls for its dismantlement and a return to a pre-agricultural level of technology. Although DGR operates as an aboveground group, it calls on others to use underground and violent tactics such as attacks on infrastructure or assassination. A repeated claim in DGR literature is that acts of sabotage could cause a cascading effect and lead to the end of civilization. DGR and far-right ecofascists use similar accelerationist and anti-majoritarian tactics, seeking systemic collapse.

Leslie James Pickering is an American activist and former spokesperson for the Earth Liberation Front Press Office advocating for political and social justice, human rights, and environmental protection.

References

  1. ↑ "ecoterrorism - definition of ecoterrorism by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia". Thefreedictionary.org. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  2. ↑ "Ecoterrorism". Merriam-webster.com. 2010-08-13. Archived from the original on 2010-04-11. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Jarboe, James F. (2002-02-12). "The Threat of Eco-Terrorism". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Archived from the original on 11 March 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Baldwin, Brent (2008-03-24). "Wade's War". Style Weekly. Virginian-Pilot. Archived from the original on 24 March 2008. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Long, Douglas. Ecoterrorism (Library in a Book). New York: Facts on File, 2004. Print. Page 19-22, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 154, 154, 48, 49-55.
  6. ↑ "Peter Sahlins. <italic>Forest Rites: The War of the Demoiselles in Nineteenth-Century France</italic>. (Harvard Historical Studies, number 115.) Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1994. Pp. xiv, 188. Cloth $29.95, paper $14.95". The American Historical Review. February 1996. doi:10.1086/ahr/101.1.192-a. ISSN   1937-5239.
  7. ↑ Stacey Renee Davis (2002). "Turning French Convicts into Colonists: The Second Empire's Political Prisoners in Algeria, 1852-1858". French Colonial History. 2 (1): 93–113. doi:10.1353/fch.2011.0013. ISSN   1543-7787. S2CID   144372045.
  8. 1 2 "The Threat of Eco-Terrorism". FBI.
  9. ↑ Amster, Randall (September 2006). "Perspectives on Ecoterrorism: Catalysts, Conflations, and Casualties". Contemporary Justice Review. 9 (3): 287–301. doi:10.1080/10282580600827991. ISSN   1028-2580.
  10. ↑ Wagner, Travis (March 2008). "Reframing Ecotage as Ecoterrorism: News and the Discourse of Fear". Environmental Communication. 2 (1): 25–39. Bibcode:2008Ecomm...2...25W. doi:10.1080/17524030801945617. ISSN   1752-4032.
  11. ↑ Plows, A; Wall, D; Doherty, B (2004). "Covert Repertoires: Ecotage in the UK" (PDF). Social Movement Studies. 3 (2): 199–219. doi:10.1080/1474283042000266128. S2CID   145206105.
  12. ↑ Dunlap, Riley E. (1992). "Deep Ecology and Radical Environmentalism". In Dunlap, Riley E.; Mertig, Angela G. (eds.). American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990 . Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis. p.  52. ISBN   9780844817309.
  13. ↑ Sullivan, Robert (1998-12-20). "The Face of Eco-Terrorism". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-11-01.
  14. ↑ Devall, Bill (July 1991). "Deep ecology and radical environmentalism". Society & Natural Resources. 4 (3): 247–258. Bibcode:1991SNatR...4..247D. doi:10.1080/08941929109380758. ISSN   0894-1920.
  15. 1 2 3 Eagan, S.P. 1996. 'From spikes to bombs: The rise of eco-terrorism'. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 19: 1-18
  16. 1 2 3 Leader, Stefan H.; Peter Probst (2003). "The Earth Liberation Front and Environmental Terrorism". Terrorism and Political Violence. 15 (4): 37–58. doi:10.1080/09546550390449872. S2CID   143655407.
  17. ↑ Prial, Frank J. (1982-01-20). "Antitank Rockets Are Fired at French Nuclear Reactor". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  18. ↑ O'Donnell, Kate; Ewart, Jacqui (2017). "Reassessing the Bunbury Bombing: Juxtaposition of Political and Media Narratives" (PDF). Salus. Vol. 5, no. 1. pp. 27–47.
  19. ↑ Edward, Abbey (2014-09-16). The monkey wrench gang. HarperCollins. ISBN   9780062357267. OCLC   905960246.
  20. ↑ "Background Report: Discovery Communications Building Hostage-Taking" (PDF). Start. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 December 2011. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  21. ↑ Grigoriadis, Vanessa (2007-06-18). "Daniel McGowan Becomes the First New Yorker Convicted of Ecoterrorism - New York Magazine". Nymag.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-12. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
  22. 1 2 Wyant, Dan. "Spike Hunt is Battling a Deadline." The Register-Guard [Eugene, Oregon] 1984-10-28
  23. ↑ Cloherty, Jack; Ryan, Jason (September 20, 2010). "FBI Spied on PETA, Greenpeace, anti-war activists". ABC News . Retrieved 11 October 2010.
  24. ↑ Savage, Charlie (January 21, 2006). "Justice Dept. accuses 11 of US eco-terrorism". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on October 10, 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
  25. ↑ Zamora, Jim Hermon (June 12, 2002). "After 11 years, jury vindicates Earth First pair FBI, Oakland officers must pay $4.4 million for civil rights abuses". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on February 9, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2010.
  26. ↑ "FBI: Eco-Terrorism Remains No. 1 Domestic Terror Threat". Fox News. 31 March 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-10-24. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  27. ↑ Yardley, William (4 March 2008). "Ecoterrorism Suspected in House Fires in Seattle Suburb". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 18 October 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  28. ↑ "Activists topple towers, claim dangers of AM radio waves". CNN. 4 September 2009. Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  29. ↑ "Exploding ABC's Uni bomber Hoax". FAIR. June 1996. Archived from the original on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2012-03-21.
  30. 1 2 "Putting Intel to Work Against ELF and ALF Terrorists". Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2008-06-30. Archived from the original on 5 July 2017. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  31. ↑ Plinkington, Ed (January 13, 2015). "Role of FBI informant in eco-terrorism case probed after documents hint at entrapment". The Guardian.
  32. ↑ Crime in the Name of Animal Rights: List of animal rights and eco-criminal acts since 1983 Archived 2014-05-23 at the Wayback Machine , National Animal Interest Alliance, May 2014
  33. ↑ "18 USC Chapter 91 - Public Lands". US Code. Archived from the original on 15 December 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  34. ↑ "S. 3880 (109th): Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act". Govtrack.us. Archived from the original on 21 February 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  35. ↑ "ALEC - Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act". 2005-12-25. Archived from the original on October 24, 2007. Retrieved 2012-12-10.
  36. ↑ "Eco-Terror Indictments: 'Operation Backfire' Nets 11". The Federal Bureau of Investigation. 20 January 2006. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2012.
  37. ↑ "Update - Operation Backfire". FBI. Retrieved 2018-10-17.
  38. 1 2 Markon, Jerry (21 September 2010). "FBI probes were improper, Justice says". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-21.

Further reading

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.