We Need Your Help to Get Hearings in DC

Eco-Terror: Why???
We Need Your Help to Get Hearings in DC!!!
June 18, 1998, Coronado, CA
After many years of incidents of violence against farmers, ranchers, loggers, miners and others who make their living in concert with the earth, many are asking for hearings on animal rights/resource terrorism or “eco-terror.” Timber workers are aware of a coordinated campaign against their industries due to incidents of sabotage against logging equipment and the Unabomber letter bomb killing of California Forestry Associationís Gil Murray. Ranchers are experiencing incidents of vandalism on their lands with several incidents of cattle killings and bombings. Fur farmers have had thousands of domesticated animals released from their cages. Animal research scientists at universities are well aware of the personal risks associated with curing societyís ills. And the list goes on and on.
Many groups around the country are keeping lists of incidents of violence against their particular industry but anyone looking for a quick listing of these incidents can simply scan the Animal Liberation Front’s website at http://envirolink.org/ALF/index.html. Last year, during the 1997 Alliance for America Fly In For Freedom, copies of Ron Arnold’s Eco-Terror: The Violent Agenda To Save Nature were distributed to every office on Capitol Hill.
Those in animal and resource-based industries don’t want hearings that just review a laundry list of actions against animal and resource-based industries. We need a national discussion of why violence against resource caretakers is happening. What causes the consumers in industrial societies to attack the producers who feed, clothe and shelter them? Isn’t this suicidal and nihilistic? Can we stop this symptom and address the cause?
What you can do
Contact your congressional representative about your concerns over animal rights and eco-terror. Ask for the U.S. Congress to hold hearings, a national discussion, on the urbanization of our country, the urban/rural split, the increasing incidents of violence against rural producers. At the minimum, ask for non-profit status to be removed from groups involved in “direct action.” We should be subsidizing educational activities, not intimidation, hate propaganda and violence. Key contacts on this issue are leaders of Judiciary Committee, Senator Hatch and Patrick Leahy; Henry Hyde, Full House Judiciary Committee; Bill McCollum, Crime Sub Committee; Don Young, Resources Committee. If you need help to make this project really easy, fax, email or mail your written requests to me and I will distribute to the appropriate key players. Thanks.
Teresa Platt, secretary Alliance for America, boardmember, National Animal Interest Alliance
Executive Director, Fur Commission USA
826 Orange Avenue, #506, Coronado, CA 92118, (619) 575-0139, (619) 272-2467/fax
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