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Wise Use Movement Leaders Denounce Violence of Extremist Left
July 9, 1998
Contact: Ron Arnold 425-455-5038 or 425-454-9470
Contact: Chuck Cushman 360-687-3087
Two nationally-known leaders of the growing wise use movement today denounced the recent firebombings of federal buildings by radical environmentalists.
A Department of Agriculture research facility near Olympia, Washington was destroyed in an arson fire in the early morning hours of June 21. $1.5 million worth of research was lost with $400,000 in structural damage.
The Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front claimed "full responsibility" for the destruction in a joint communique issued June 28.
Chuck Cushman, executive director of the American Land Rights Association, said, "There is never an excuse for violence in a democratic society. The pattern of violence by these environmental extremists is appalling."
Cushman pointed to an Internet web site, http://envirolink.org/ALF/doa/nadoa98.html, a "brag list" of hundreds of crimes by environmental and animal rights extremists. The "98" in the address is the year. It may be replaced by "97", "96" and so forth, to view earlier crime lists.
Ron Arnold, executive vice-president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, said, "My recent testimony at a hearing on ecoterrorism in the House Subcommittee on Crime stressed that law enforcement needs better tools to deal with the violence of the extremist left.
"I didn't know how true that was. I was shocked to learn today that the Inspector General of the Department of Agriculture, the agency's top law enforcement officer, had not yet been informed that he had lost a $1.9 million facility to environmental terrorism."
Arnold is the author of the book EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature, which lists more than 1,000 crimes by environmentalists. His organization operates the Ecoterror Response Network to fight crimes against farmers, ranchers, miners, loggers and fishers committed by radical environmentalists to "save nature". The Website is http://www.cdfe.org/ecoterror.html.
The wise use movement is a loose confederation of more than 2,000 law-abiding organizations devoted to the preservation of property rights, natural resource-based goods production, and limited government. Wise use organizations work in all 50 states through public education, lobbying, litigation, and non-violent demonstrations.
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