In addition, various groups that constitute the ecoterrorist movement are also believed to interact, to one degree or another, with mainstream environmental and animal-rights organizations and/or individuals. Although none of the mainstream organizations officially endorses or participates in the illegal and violent activities championed by ecomilitants, some prominent members of mainstream groups are known to sympathize with the ecoterrorist movement. [see reference below]

 

"According to Martosko, an FBI evidence recovery log from the search of San Diego’s automobile describes a check written to him by Ariana M. Huemer, an employee of HSUS at the time."]  Mainstream organizations with known or possible links to ecoterrorism include the following:

• Greens

• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

• The Sierra Club

• National Wildlife Federation

• Audubon Society

• Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) [Emphasis added.]

• Friends of the Earth

• Greenpeace

• Earth First⁴⁷

• Coalition to Save the Preserve (CSP)

• Environmental Task Force

• The Frogs

• In Defense of Animals

• New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance

• Fund for Animals (U//FOUO)

Among the highlighted organizations, PETA, the Fund for Animals, In Defense of Animals, the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, and certain individuals within the HSUS are known or suspected of having financial ties to individuals and groups associated with ecoterrorism.⁴⁸  In addition to financial ties to ecomilitancy, both HSUS and PETA, or at least individuals within those organizations, have an established record of supporting individuals and/or groups commonly associated with ecoterrorism. David Martosko, director of research for the Center for Consumer Freedom, in his testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works in 2005, gives examples of HSUS’s links to ecomilitants:⁴⁹

• According to Martosko, Miyun Park, an HSUS employee listed as a benefactor, has been named in at least six federal wiretap warrants in connection with a Federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism trial. Martosko claims that these warrants also include University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) professor Steven Best, PETA grantee (and terror defendant at the time) Joshua Harper (convicted ecoterrorist), and PETA employee Joe Haptas.

• Martosko further claimed that Daniel Andreas San Diego, wanted by federal authorities for involvement in the detonation of ten-pound shrapnel bombs in 2003 at two California biomedical research companies, also had links to the HSUS.  According to Martosko, an FBI evidence recovery log from the search of San Diego’s automobile describes a check written to him by Ariana M. Huemer, an employee of HSUS at the time.

• Martosko recounts the story of John Paul “J.P.” Goodwin to illustrate another tie between the HSUS and violent animal-rights activists. In 1997, when Goodwin was the national director of the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, he wrote in No Compromise that he and his group “support these [ALF] actions 100%. We will never, ever, ever work with anyone who helps the FBI stop the ALF....this is one of the best things to happen in a long time.”⁵⁰

In March 1997, after the ALF arson of a fur farmers’ feed co-op in Utah that resulted in $1 million in damages, Goodwin told reporters, “We’re ecstatic.” In 2000, the HSUS sent Goodwin as its emissary on a tour of Chinese fur farms.

 

By 2001, he was an HSUS employee and remains on the HSUS’s full-time staff. (U//FOUO)

 

END NOTES  [herein referred to as footnotes]

 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

fn 1/  The terms ecological terrorist, ecoterrorist, radical/extreme/militant environmentalist and animal rights activist, ecomilitant, or their variations are used interchangeably throughout this Dynamic Threat Assessment (DTA) and are all meant to convey the same thing.

fn 2/  Patricia Leigh Brown, “Ideas & Trends; Enabling, and Disabling, Ecoterrorists Ideas & Trends; Enabling, and Disabling, Ecoterrorists,” New York Times, November 16, 2003, at http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9503E5DD1338F935A25752C1A9659C8B63.

 

 INTERNAL STRUCTURES AND ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS

fn 44/ The concept of leaderless resistance was originally developed by white supremacist Louis Beam. For more on leaderless resistance, see Simson Garfinkel, “Leaderless Resistance Today,” date unknown, at
fn 45/ B. L. Smith, K. R. Damphousse, and P. Roberts, “Pre-Incident Indicators of Terrorist Incidents: The Identification of Behavioral, Geographic, and Temporal Patterns of Preparatory Conduct,” U.S.
fn 46/Horne,“The Radical Environmental Movement: Incorporating Empire and the Politics of Nature.”

EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERORGANIZATIONAL TIES
fn 47/ Earth First! started out as a radical organization that pioneered tactics associated with monkey wrenching. Since the early 1990s, the group has become more mainstream by distancing itself from illegal and violent activity.
fn 48/ For more on the financial links between ecomilitants and other organizations, see Financing subsection under Logistics.
fn 49/ Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, Environmental and Animal Rights Terrorism and Its Above-Ground Support System, testimony of David Martosko, director of research, Center for Consumer Freedom, May 18, 2005, at http://epw.senate.gov/109th/MARTOSKO_TESTIMONY.pdf.  It should be noted that the Center for Consumer Freedom is funded by alcohol, tobacco, and food interest groups. Although Martosko’s testimony is often detailed and compelling, some of his claims cannot be corroborated by other open sources.
fn 50/ See http://www.nocompromise.org/features/4furwar.html.
fn 51/ Environmental and Animal Rights Terrorism and its Above-Ground Support System.

 

Get more information and dig for gold on Animal Rights and Domestic Terrorism

 

{1} Who Will Fight Animal Rights Terrorists May 2005

{2} ELF ranked #1 Domestic Terrorist Threat

{3} Origin & History of Animal Rights Movement

{4} Complete coverage on Animal Rights Terrorism

 

http://www.thedogpress.com/SideEffects/DHS-Terrorists-Report-11.asp

 

Copyright © TheDogPress.com / Press Publications, LLC - All Rights Reserved Reprint Requests Please read our Privacy Policy and Disclaimer