-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Will Eco-Terrorists Finally Get Their Come-Uppance? By Michael Goodspeed http://www.geocities.com/michael_goodspeed/Forbidden_Truth.html It's always bothered me that the American news media chooses to portray political extremism as a problem endemic to the conservative movement. >From the day they are born, US children hear the words "right wing" and "extremist" uttered in the same sentence so often, it becomes a part of their regular vocabulary. Sexism, racism, homophobia, hate crimes...all phenomena that we are programmed to associate with the right-wing ilk. Every isolated act of violent zealotry, including the recent shootings of abortion doctors, is used to make a sweeping, condeming statement about conservatives as a whole, even when the perpetrators of said acts have NO AFFILIATION with conservative groups. Why is the same scrutiny not given to the more "compassionate" members of left-wing organizations who have proven to be equally violent? I've never understood why mass-murdering psychotics like Ted Kaczynski and the Unicorn Killer (the founder of Earth Day) are portrayed in the media as repressed-geniuses who took their good-intentions a little too far. I can't count the number of popular personalities who have voiced support for Kaczynski's major-moron "paradigm" of anti-technology and anti-capitalism, including "Politically Incorrect" host Bill Maher. In a 1997 interview with Jay Leno, Maher said, "Blowing people up is a bad thing, but you know, if you read his manifesto he really had some good ideas." Imagine the media's response if Charlton Heston had said the same thing about Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. How much longer will the lawless and often murderess actions of left-wing terrorists be either downplayed or unreported by the national media? An equally troubling trend is that of lawmakers capitalizing on such tragedies as OKC and Columbine to pass unconstitutional legislation, always in the name of "safety." The past 5 years have produced an unprecedented anti-gun and anti-militia vitriol within the Washington beltway and mainstream news core, which poses a serious threat to our most basic rights as Americans. I've waited patiently over the last 5 years to see if my elected officials would devote the same fervor to cracking down on left-wing organizations, who have seemed above the law for too long. Recent development in my home state of Oregon give me some reason to hope. On Wednesday, February 16, Bryan Denson of the Oregonian Newspaper reported, "Two Oregon Lawmakers, supported by Attorney General Hardy Myers, have drafted a bill that would make repeat eco-terrorism punishable under the state's racketeering statute. "The proposal, authored by Rep. Bob Jenson, R-Pendleton, and Rep. Lane Shetterly, R-Dallas, would add crimes against agricultural enterprises, research laboratories and livestock operations to the state's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act." The bill is designed to go after the more prominent animal-rights and eco-terrorists groups in Oregon, who have created tremendous hardship for the state's cattle ranchers, loggers, and animal researchers. Such terrorist groups as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front have taken credit for or been named as leading suspects in seven major crimes in Oregon, including six arsons. The total financial damage inflicted by their actions has totaled more than $13 million. For reasons beyond comprehension, environmental and animal rights terrorists have long been given preferential treatment under Oregon law. Any apolitical citizen who commits an act of violence or vandalism is likely to be dealt a stiff prison term, but individuals who steal from research facilities, logging operations or livestock businesses in Oregon face misdemeanor or lesser felony charges, with maximum penalities of one to five years in prison and $5,000 to $10,000 in fines. If the bill proposed by Jenson and Shetterly is passed, people who commited two or more of the crimes within five years could be charged with Class A felonies punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $300,000 fine. Many western states, including Oregon, have long been acquainted with the violence of eco-terrorist and animal rights groups. Since 1980, 100 major arsons, bombings and other acts of terror have been documented in 11 states, with damages totaling $42.8 million. Two-thirds of said incidents have occurred in the past 4 years. Most recently, on Christmas Day, 1999, the Earth Liberation Front set fire to Boise Cascade Corp's timber management office in Monmouth, an act which cost the company $1 million. This recent escalation in envrionmental terror is of great concern to me. I've often worried over the far-reaching impact of the Doomsday fervor that has been so prevalent in our popular culture the past several years. The end of the 90's witnessed the news media giving unprecedented air time to such matters as global warming and rain forest destruction, almost always from an extremely skewed point of view. The opinions of dissenting scientists who do not agree with such theories as the man-made ozone hole are not given equal air time on network newscasts, and we all know how popular doomsaying has become in the world of late-night talk radio. Is it coincidental that many once-peaceful activists are taking to such extreme actions as arson, theft, and even murder? These people are being programmed by irresponsible and opportunistic journalists and politicans to believe that world is ending, and it's at least possible that innocent people are being harmed as the result. For those of you who believe that recent "weather anomalies" are the worst tribulations that man-kind has ever faced, you should take note of a recent finding by researchers form major universities. Evidence of a "mega-drought" in the 16th century has been discovered by researchers using tree-ring chronologies that extend back before 1500. They found that extraordinarily dry conditions extended from Mexico through the American Southwest, Wyoming, Montana and the Southeast during the last half of the 1500s. This "mega-drought" was severe enough to make life very difficult for the inhabitants of said areas. This would obviously suggest that a portion of the Earth experienced a period of warming worse than anything that's been reaped by the ballyhooed ozone hole of the 90's. It also demonstrates that periods of warming and cooling are products of natural Earthly cycles, dating back long before the industrial age. The researchers were from the University of Arkansas, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the University of Arizona, Valdosta State University and the University of Western Ontario. The study will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal EOS. I would never argue that the self-deluded thugs and bullies who make up the ELF and ALF are typical environmentals. It's my experience that the majority of people who safe-guard the Earth against encroachment are thoughtful and spiritually enlightened folk who are not prone to violence of any kind. Nor do I deny that mankind is facing some very troubling environmental calamities, some of which have been proven to be man-made. But many enviromentalists believe that severe action should be taken to "remedy" a problem before it's nature is even understood. How many activists, from Linda Moulton Howe to VP Al Gore, are calling for a trillion dollar overhaul of the economy in the name of saving the supposedly threatened ozone layer? Does it not matter to you people that ozone holes form and regenerate on a regular basis? The banning of freons, CFCs and the combustible engine are all absurd and reactionary measures advocated by many in the environmental community. Even more disturbing is the environmentalists' plea for inceased government beauracries and globalist treaties. In this regard, they are the perfect pawns for the agenda of globalism. And the violence and terrorism of recent years are the natural by-products of people who believe that their mission is nothing less than the preservation of the human race. ================================================================= Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, YHVH, TZEVAOT FROM THE DESK OF: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Mike Spitzer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ~~~~~~~~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Best Way To Destroy Enemies Is To Change Them To Friends Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day. ================================================================= <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soap-boxing! 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