Letters to the Editor
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Is the government pursuing these cases with balance?
...because I want to hear stories of such massive, conspiritorial operations directed at the insane Christian terrorists around the country who have been killing mothers, daughters, husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons for decades in violence against family planning clinics. Or perhaps those same fanatics directing and propagating violence against homosexuals. Because any time someone commits violence against someone they've been told to hate by a religion, they're acting on behalf of an organization to the same, or greater, degree than any environmental activist.
Sounds severe when the shoe's on the other foot, eh?
The types of environmental activists discussed here are breaking the law, there's no question about that. But groups who target people for harm and death--and anti-abortion groups do exactly that, every day--are inherently more dangerous to human life than any environmental group. As such, they should be focused on much more intently by the state.
What chills me about what's discussed in this story is that it's another example of property, and the right to make unlimited wealth, being valued more by society than the individual or nature itself. These inhuman, amoral corporate interests are granted the state of "victimhood" over the rights of those who are helpless to defend themselves. And the men with the money always expect the real, living, breathing humans to just roll over and accept their second-class status.
We think of guerilla action as something that only happens elsewhere in the world. But the more that the helpless are devalued by power structures, the more of this type of resistance we're going to see in the decades ahead. How do you think this country was formed in the first place? It's in our DNA.
One day, our descendants will look back on how we've treated animals, ecology, and each other, and will shake their heads that we were so insanely cruel, careless, and in denial about the effects of our actions on the world. In our heart of hearts, we know the types of things that ELF and others are fighting against are wrong, and should be fought against. It's to our collective shame that we turn away and ignore the greed and destruction that these activists are giving their lives to resist.