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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 12:49 PM
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FBI warns of ELF eco-terrorism (Jeff "Free" Luers protest)
Edited on Sat Jun-12-04 12:55 PM by joefree1
FBI warns of possible ecoterrorism
Saturday, June 12, 2004 Posted: 10:40 AM EDT (1440 GMT)

OLYMPIA, Washington (AP) -- The FBI has told law enforcement agencies across the country that radical environmentalists may stage protests, possibly violent ones, this weekend in support of a jailed arsonist.
The FBI bulletin said the Earth Liberation Front reportedly was planning a "day of action and solidarity" that could include acts of ecoterrorism, according to Tor Bjornstad, a police commander in Olympia, one of several cities named as possible targets.
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The general warning was part of a weekly intelligence bulletin the FBI distributed to some 18,000 law enforcement agencies on Wednesday, said Bill Carter, a spokesman in the FBI's Washington, D.C., headquarters.
No specific targets were identified in the bulletin, Bjornstad said. He said his department contacted what it considered potential targets, including auto dealerships, building contractors and the Port of Olympia, which exports timber.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/06/12/ecoterrorism.ap/

International Day of Action & Solidarity with Jeff 'Free' Luers
June 12, 2004


View the June 12 Events Planned!
Read statement of solidarity by Brian McCarvill
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June marks the fourth year that our friend and comrade, Jeff "Free" Luers has been imprisoned and held captive by the state. Sentenced to 22 years and 8 months for burning three Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) at Romania Chevrolet in Eugene, Jeff has continued to be active in prison and fight back with his words and inspiration. This June 12, we aim to strengthen his efforts by promoting a day of action and solidarity with Jeff throughout the world.
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22 years for burning a three SUVs? Meanwhile former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow is only serving a ten year sentence for fanning the flames of the California energy crisis while defrauding Enron shareholders and employees.




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theoceansnerves Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 02:49 PM
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1. all part of the plan
along with patriot act II which will outlaw animal rights and environmental protests. people will see this on the news and think "those wacko environmentalists, bush will protect me from them!"
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 10:16 PM
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7. It has been part of their agenda for a while now.
Rep. George Nethercutt (R-WA) introduced..."H.R.2795, 'The Agroterrorism Prevention Act of 2001,' expands the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act to ostensibly protect biotech, timber, and other agricultural or biological products from "terrorists" who engage or conspire in activities that include 'physical disruption' resulting in 'loss of any property.'"

Link http://ngin.tripod.com/250102a.htm

I'm not sure how up to date this info is but it did not take them very long to go after environmentalists under the guise of fightin' terra.
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DarkPhenyx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 02:49 PM
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8. They are whacko.
This group of them anyway. ELF, ALF, and PETA are prime examples of what happens when bad things become of good environmental activists.
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nosmokes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 06:14 PM
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2. yeah, this kid gets a harsher sentence for a property crime
than is handed out for most homicides.

anybody else see some fucked up priorities here?

joe
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-12-04 10:40 PM
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3. As soon as the original patriot act was approved, I was telling people
that Limpballs and company would be trying to label ecological groups as terrorists because they spike trees.

Now, the regime is saying that people who try to stop poisoning the Earth are going to poison water supplies.

Yet another in a series of contradictory concepts put forth by the righties.
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theoceansnerves Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-04 06:39 PM
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4. well what do you know
it's now sunday evening and NOTHING has happened!
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-14-04 09:11 AM
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5. Monday AM Update - America Not Rocked By Wave Of Eco-Terror
The United States continues to be unrocked and unshocked by a nonexistent wave of bombings and arsons that did not materialize this weekend. Film at noon.
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JM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 08:18 PM
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6. I think the announcement was actually was cover
for something else. Something big happened last week, which unfortunately my source asked me not to post. He didn't say the announcement was cover, but I am guessing from the timing that it was. I am assuming if they alert the FBI to specific areas but don't announce why, it would cause too much suspicion, so they used ELF.

JM
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-17-04 04:35 PM
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9. Thursday - Day Five Of Eco-Terror Unwave Fails To Paralyze America
Oh, the humanity . . .
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