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Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Corporate interests that form the animal industrial complex understand the animal rights movement as a threat to their profits and have mobilized to undermine it. Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal exploitation fund and produce propaganda to portray the compassionate goals and nonviolent practices of animal activists as outlandish, anti-human campaigns that operate by violent means not only to destroy Western civilization but also to create actual genocide. The idea of concern for others is itself a dangerous one, and capitalism works by keeping people focused on individual interests and discouraging compassion and commitment to others. Driven by powerful and wealthy industries founded upon the exploitation of nonhuman animals and the extraction of natural resources, the discourse of ecoterrorism is a useful mechanism to repress criticism of the institutionalized violence and cruelty of these industries as well as their destructive impact on the environment, their major contribution to global warming and ecological disaster, and their negative impacts on human health. Further, by deliberately constructing an image of activists as dangerous and violent terrorists, these corporations and their representatives in government have created a widespread climate of fear that is very useful in legitimizing calls for more policing and more repressive legislation, such as Bill C-51 in Canada.
Informed by both critical animal studies and critical terrorism studies, John Sorenson analyzes ecoterrorism as a social construction. He examines how corporations that profit from animal exploitation fund and produce propaganda to portray the compassionate goals and nonviolent practices of animal activists as outlandish, anti-human campaigns that operate by violent means not only to destroy Western civilization but also to create actual genocide. The idea of concern for others is itself a dangerous one, and capitalism works by keeping people focused on individual interests and discouraging compassion and commitment to others.
Provides an overview of the issue of ecoterrorism, including history, terminology, biographical information on important figures in this field, and a complete annotated bibliography.
Research on eco-terrorism has focused attention on many areas, from the analysis of the language used in specific pieces of legislation targeting animal rights and environmental activists, like the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, to the appropriateness of labeling individuals and groups eco-terrorist and/or terrorist given their non-violent stance and direct action campaigns which target property not people, and to law enforcement responses to those labeled eco-terrorist (Del Gandio and Nocella II 2014; Lovitz 2007; Carson, LaFree, and Dugan 2012; Loadenthal 2013b, 2014). The eco-terrorist discourse produces images of animal rights and environmental activists as barbaric, irrational, and a civilizational threat. The discourse also reproduces and legitimizes corporate social positions, while also insulating multinational corporations involved in resource extraction and animal use industries from scrutiny. The eco-terrorist discourse provides justification for targeted legislation and prosecution of activists as terrorists in federal trials. All discourse inherently defines and demarcates social reality, constructing an identity for both those inside the boundaries of the discourse and those who lie outside. Critical Discourse Analysis concerns itself largely with a social theory basis of “knowledge” production, describing the shared production of knowledge by varied social actors embedded in social orders of knowledge. By employing a Critical Discourse Analysis approach to the discourse of “eco-terrorism” in Congressional hearings and federal trials, I demonstrate that the discourse of eco-terrorism controls and regulates dissent through a process of demonization and delegitimization so that any discussion of the justification of the actions taken by those labeled as “eco-terrorists” is closed off. Animal rights and environmental activists, who are often so labeled, target multinational corporations involved in factory farms, bio-medical research, and natural resource extraction. They justify their targeting based on moral and ethical duties to non-harm and non-violence, and to ending systemic structures of exploitation and marginalization on behalf of both human and non-human animals. The discourse of “eco-terrorism” reinforces images of corporate actors as essential to both economic and civilizational progress. My analysis of the eco-terrorist discourse reveals why the federal government understands avowed anti-violence animal rights and environmental activists to be dangerous domestic terrorist threats, demonstrating that the eco-terrorist discourse is based on protecting corporations as a national security interest, as essential to civilization and individual freedom. Eco-terrorist legislation diminishes democratic values which promote vigorous debate, discussion, and deliberation by shielding corporate behavior by making protests, activism, and civil disobedience based on animal rights and environmentalism illegal. The effect is to silence activists so as to insulate corporate actors from scrutiny, ensuring that they cannot be held responsible for behaviors that activists describe as environmentally destructive as well as exploitative and dangerous to both non-human animals and humans. As such, the eco-terrorist discourse provides both space for and justification of legislation targeting eco- terrorists, and law enforcement scrutiny, making prosecution in federal trials possible and acts to limit the space of public and democratic deliberation by limiting the ability of citizens and activists to monitor, report on, and hold corporations responsible for both harmful and illegal behavior.
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Tree-huggers may actually be squeezing the life out of the environment. In a book that is alternately alarming, enlightening, ironic, and entertaining, award-winning journalist John Berlau explores the myriad ways in which shortsighted environmentalism actually endangers trees, wildlife, and people. In chapter after chapter, Berlau debunks myths and libels about: global warming and climate change the dangers of pesticides like DDT trees and pollution fuel economy and the auto industry the threat posed by asbestos the lifesaving role of dams and levees plans to "rewild" America Mother Nature is not a gentle person, and Berlau's pointed reporting reveals the very real dangers to people and their environments when Eco-Freaks prevent us from restraining her. "Berlau makes a powerful case. . . . Thinking environmentalists who read this book will be forced to revisit at least some of their most deeply held beliefs." -Joel Himelfarb, Washington Times "Berlau says a lot of things that are not generally known that needed to be said." -Bruce N. Ames, recipient, National Medal of Science, 1998 Save the Planet . . . and Ourselves In Eco-Freaks, award-winning journalist John Berlau provides a much needed and startling exposé about how the environmental movement with its radical, shortsighted eco-activists has actually helped amplify the dangers of natural disasters and destroyed the lives and property of millions of Americans. As Berlau writes, "America . . . is still mighty prosperous, but environmentalism is putting us on the brink of danger as well. As technology after technology that our grandparents put in place is being banned, and new technologies never even come to market, we risk a public-health disaster. Environmentalists have promoted all sorts of doomsday scenarios about population explosions and massive cancer crises from pesticides that have been shown to be false. But now, because we have done away with so many useful products based on those scares, we are in danger of an old-fashion doomsday returning, because we've lost what protected us from the wrath of nature. Indeed, as we will see throughout this book, public health hazards caused by environmental policies are already on the scene."
A harrowing, captivating firsthand history of the rise of the radical environmental movement the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Since 1997, the ELF has inflicted over $100 million in damages on entities they believe to be causing environmental destruction, mostly through brazen arson attacks on timber companies, ski resorts, and car dealerships. Former ELF spokesperson Craig Rosebraugh charts the history and ideology of the ELF and explores its tactics, successes, and limitations. Rosebraugh examines the question of whether or not violence is justifiable, along with the short- and long-term political benefits and drawbacks of using violence. He also offers a primer on the tactics of state repression and strategies the US government uses to destroy activist movements.Whatever your view of direct action or violence, Burning Rage of a Dying Planet is an illuminating read for anyone seeking to understand radical environmental movements and the government's response to them.This revised and updated edition has a foreword by Extinction Rebellion co-founder Tamsin Omond.
Those who recognize and stand up to psychopaths can expect unending retaliation.R. Hare The author exposed nonfeasance and malfeasance in two government agencies in Tennessee. As a result, he has spent the last fifteen years in a continuous lopsided battle against domestic terrorists and corrupt government officials. It has been as if he has been placed on a secret government blacklist. Many of those who could and should enforce the laws turned out to be terrorists themselves. What the author has experiencedand witnessedhas literally sickened his heart! The law entitled Ecoterrorism was enacted to protect two very basic human rights: the right to work in ones chosen line of work and the right to propertythe right to own, use, enjoy, and benefit from ones personal property. A person is guilty of ecoterrorism if the person commits a specified offense against property by intimidating or coercing a person lawfully participating in an activity involving animals, or preventing or obstructing a person lawfully participating in an activity involving animals. This law is not hard to comprehend. Yet it goes unenforced, ignored by law enforcement as a civil matter! Whistleblowers in Nashville were maliciously prosecuted and terminated from their government jobs; the anti-racing ecoterrorists in PA insanely carried out their published terroristic threats for over five years, and law enforcement and the justice system simply ignored their despicable crimes and did nothing! Terrorists (domestic or foreign) are evil people with evil motives, often masquerading as activists with a noble political or religious cause. In reality, their primary criminal objectives are personal gainsex, power, and/or money. Laws are the conscience of humanity; the reason that terrorism is so successful is because terrorists play by no rules, have no moral values, and have no conscience or sense of guilt or remorse! Terrorists of any kind are nothing but psychopaths! Ecoterrorism is a very lucrative form of terrorism used by perverted animal rights activists to exploit those who make their living participating in animal-related activities. After dealing with ecoterrorists for the last several years, the author clearly sees that ecoterrorism has nothing to do with the love of animals! Ecoterrorists are often psychopaths masked as animal rights activists and animal lovers! Ecoterrorism is politically charged; therefore, it is often ignored by law enforcementno matter how criminal and despicable it gets! Psychopathic behavior is often so camouflaged and so veiled that even the victims may have a hard time recognizing it until after most of the damage has been done. A similar phenomenon, known as nave prey syndrome, occurs in nature, whereas the prey does not recognize the predator until the predator has literally got them by the throat. In reality, the anti-racing persona of anti-thoroughbred racing activists is just a smoke screen; the real motive is personal gain in the form of fraudulently solicited donations and high-quality thoroughbred horses that become free for the taking once the owner has been falsely prosecuted and their valuable thoroughbreds have been stolen under the perverted pretense of official right. Anti-racing ecoterrorists have developed sophisticated ways to harm and kill thoroughbred horsesways that will go undetected and uninvestigated but reflect badly on the targeted owners and trainers! You couldnt run (or breed) a dead horse is one of the anti- racing ecoterrorists sinister sayings. As the author have been so painfully made aware of!