Following patterns of political repression that accompanied the early Cold War period, the "war on terrorism" is beginning to generate wide-ranging attacks on environmentalists. These include:
- A renewed effort to pass federal "eco-terror" legislation that would define some acts of civil disobedience as "terrorism."
- A nasty public PR effort casting all environmentalism as "eco-terrorism" to varying degrees.
- Coercive demands that law-abiding environmental groups provide a position on the criminal activities of the Earth Liberation Front
- Concerted attacks on the tax-exempt status of a handful of leading environmental organizations, such at the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and the Rukus Society, complaining that direct action violates their IRS tax status.
Read the article. And check out the "terrorists" at
Rainforest Action Network, which has the image above on its homepage. (Ghandi or bin Laden?, You decide!)
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Quoted on homepage of
The Ruckus Society.
