Ever since reading Ron Arnold's books "EcoTerror", "Trashing the Economy" and "Undue Influence", I have been perplexed as to why the public is not angered by the organized radical environmental movement.

In place of the word "environmental", substitute "crime", "terrorism" or "religious". There's well over 23,000 of these organized groups infiltrating every inch of the globe.

The strong undercurrent to environmentalism and government environmental regulations is antimosity, anti-industry, anti-development, anti-labour, anti-capitalism, anti-Christ and anti-Americanism--which is even taught along with environmental studies in Canadian learning centres.

Why are we not talking about this?

An economics professor at Auburn (Alabama) University has watched for several years while one particular terrorist group launches attacks in America and other countries with impunity.

Its actions seem to anger no one other than the victims of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), observed Rob Blackstock in a piece posted with mises.org Web site on September 27.

ELF claims responsibility for more than $23 million in damages since its inception in 1992. He wants to know why American citizens are not outraged by ELF as they were by the bombing of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma in 1995 and now the Attack on America of September 11?

Is it because ELF hasn't attacked a federal government office or is it because they haven't killed large numbers of people at once? "If these arsons continue, that's just a matter of time," he declared.

The Attack on America was a wake up call. Yet Americans and the world are now focused on a loose-knit, wing-nut terrorist organization known as Al Qaeda.

In George W. Bush's barn-burner of a speech on September 20, the U.S. president told his flock that "whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done."

He went on to promise: "Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it doesn't end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated."

If he's a man of his word, he won't have to look too far afield to find some of his enemies, who have been getting away with murder and destruction for years on American soil and filtering into Canada and around the world.

To zero in on a portion of the radical network, he can start with the United Nations and the European Union. Names of several wealthy U.S.-based charitable, tax-free environmental grant organizations are known by Bush, the CIA, FBI, RCMP and the Canadian Secret Intelligence Service (CSIS) to be the money-funders.

Through grant foundations, terrorists and eco-terrorists have made in-roads into every level of government in the world.

"Al Qaeda is to terror what the mafia is to crime," Bush stressed. "But its goal is not making money; its goal is remaking the world--and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere."

He just described the UN and green extremists like former U.S. vice-president Al Gore, who was Bush's arch rival for the presidential position in the last election. Gore's book "Earth in Balance" strikes too similarly to Theodore Kaczynski's "Unabomber's Manifesto".

Another crackpot book "Where on Earth Are We Going?" is a doomsday product from the most influential person on the planet. Maurice Strong, a Canadian by birth and former CEO of PetroCan, is the Geneva-based senior advisor to the UN and World Bank.

The message in each of those mentioned works is to dismantle industry and depopulate the earth, and make the ones who survive grovel in the dirt for their food like Stalinist peasants.

Years ago, Dave Foreman penned a saboteur manual called "A Field Guide to Monkey-wrenching". He recently joined the Sierra Club board of directors and is closely affiliated with the Yukon environmental groups.

Juri Peepre, who heads the local chapter of the U.S.-funded Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, is listed as a contact here for the Wildlands Project. Foreman sits as its chairman and is on the board as New Mexico's representative.

Last April, a lone Whitehorse resident forced the issue in a meeting about their mandate. Within hours, the Wildlanders had hastily scrubbed their long-standing mission statement from the Internet.

The anti-development mandate is to dismantle roads, dams, rural communities and industrial civilization while calling for the extermination of 50 per cent of humanity to save the overcrowded earth.

Currently, Bush is discussing terrorists who practice a lunatic fringe form of Islamic extremism that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam. The terrorists' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews and every American.

The terrorist group and its leader--Osama bin Laden, who became a household name overnight--are linked to many other organizations in various countries, just like the environmental groups are.

There are thousands of these terrorists in more than 60 countries. They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to camps in places like Afghanistan to be trained in the tactics of terror.

Then they are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in other countries of the world to plot evil and destruction.

Another overlap where the philosophies of terrorists and environmentalists are indistinguishable is that neither kill merely to snuff out lives. They kill to disrupt and end a way of life (freedom, liberty, democracy, capitalism).

By sacrificing human life to serve their radical causes, they abandon every value except the desire for power. In doing so, they follow the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism.

Likewise, the goal of radical environmentalists has never been to protect nature but to gain arbitrary power over the citizenry.

"The only way to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate it, and destroy it where it grows," insists Bush.

In my opinion, he can start by hurling an ax into the heart of the grant-making organizations, which are 50 years past due for a Congressional airing over their anti-government activities, which translates into an attack on the people.

It also has not been helpful that liberal mainstream media have long abetted terrorism by turning a blind eye to it. Author Ron Arnold picked up the threads where the media shirked its duty.

Still, for more than five years, Arnold resisted writing his book "Eco-Terror: the Violent Agenda to Save Nature--the World of the Unabomber".

"My reluctance," he advised in the preface, "was not for lack of evidence of crimes committed to save nature, but the contrary: the raw data was so massive no one person could assimilate and analyze it, much less explain it clearly to a skeptical public."

In the wake of the Attack on America, Arnold's expose of ecoterrorism is going to convert a lot of skeptics into believers.

The Washington State-based writer beat his head against a wall for years, trying to educate the public with his meticulous research and writings while testifying before Congressional hearings.

Make no mistake, eco-terrorists are a threat to freedom and to the preservation of an environment that includes people, he warned.

Reviewers have described "Eco-Terror" as a book that reads like a Tom Clancy novel. Only Arnold's blunt truth is scarier than fiction. The extensively-documented book exposes an entire underground movement of violence while purporting to save nature.

Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, now rotting somewhere in a U.S. prison, used radical environmental publications to target his last two victims.

The vicious Animal Liberation Front maintains a Web site that brags of over 600 crimes committed in the name of "animal rights".

Earth Firsters, a brainchild of Dave Foreman's, use a tactic called "decoupling" to hide their involvement in "monkeywrenching"--the sabotage against essential production.

The overwhelming majority of the victims attacked by eco-terrorists are small family companies--not big corporations. Then big-money foundations donate millions of dollars to smear anybody who stands up to expose eco-terrorists and the moral bankruptcy of big eco-groups.

Mainstream environmentalists incite underground violence to save nature by promoting hatred against industrial civilization.

Earth Liberation Front (ELF) along with dozens of other anarchic cadres have expressed their hatred for the industrial system in more than a thousand violent incidents, including tree spiking, bombings, equipment destruction, livestock shootings, attempted murder and, the main weapon, arson.

While Al Qaeda has terrorist-training camps in remote parts of the world, continues Rob Blackstock in his article "Another One for the List", the ELF uses technology to give this knowledge to anyone interested.

The Earth Liberation Front Guide includes instructions for "Setting Fire with Electrical Timers".

Blackstone can't figure out why people are ready to give up their civil liberties and send their children off to war but are unwilling to acknowledge the terrorism that has been occurring right in their own backyards for years?

Like the attack on the World Trade Center, the actions of the ELF are attacks on capitalism, he reminds.

In January, after burning down Superior Lumber Company office building, the ELF prepared a statement: "This year, 2001, we hope to see an escalation in tactics against capitalism and industry."

One can go on at length showing why anarchic groups are morally bankrupt and reprehensible. And we can go on hoping Bush gets his judicial hooks into them for crimes of force before all North Americans lose their civil and economic liberties in the name of "national security".

Meanwhile, I personally hope not to hear another peep from the environmentalists who reside in the Yukon. Nor do I want to hear that governments of every stripe (municipal, territorial, federal and first nations) are catering to their every whine and whimper.

Above all, I do not want to hear that any member of the local industrial and business coalition is still eager to "negotiate" and "compromise" with them over the Yukon Protected Areas Strategy, or anything else.

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