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04/01/2008: "Ecoterrorists latest scare, potentially helpful dissident group"

The FBI defines eco-terrorism "as the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature."

For years, officials have battled against members of shadowy groups such as the Earth Liberation Front and its brother-in-arms, the Animal Liberation Front.

"Generally speaking, the Earth Liberation folks are motivated by a deep kind of affective connection to nature that many of them would characterize as spiritual or religious," said Bron Taylor, a professor of religion and nature at the University of Florida. "They believe that the human species is perpetrating a war on nature and that those who are connected to nature and belong to it have a right to defend themselves."

FBI estimates place damages from these attacks at well over $100 million.

[ The human species isn't perpetuating war on nature; it is a parasite on nature. We a species that has become too successful for its own limited wisdom to counteract its infinite expansion into a finite space. ]


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343768,00.html