| Abstrakt: |
The radical environmental movement, Earth First was founded in 1980 by David Foreman a Washington environmental lobbyist. Adopting as their slogan No compromise in the defence of Mother Earth "the movement progressed through the early formative stages usually associated with protest groups. letter-writing campaigns, staged protests, sit-in, antiestablishment skits and so forth. But over the past several years. Earth First has turned to violence sabotage and terrorism against land developers and the lumber oil and electricity industries. Their well-educated white middle-class members have more recently focused their attention on planning serious attacks on nuclear facilities and associated electric system. In 1986 they were responsible for a successful attack on the Palo Verdes nuclear facility 's transmission lines. In June 1989, three members were arrested for attempting to cut down power lines in Arizona as part of a plan to disrupt operations at the Diablo Canyon nuclear generating plant. The overall radical enviornmentalist movement and its sabotage effort appear to be spreading. On April 29, 1990 ecoterrorist claimed responsibility for a serious sabotage incident in Palo Alto California and on the same day power lines were sabotaged Faifax Country. Virginia by unknown perpetrators. It is clear that in the United States a national ecoterrorist network exists whose main purpose is to commit illegal acts in defense of the environment. These ecoterrorists appear to be gaining strength as well as the capability to increase their activities around the country. The radical environmentalist movement has the potential to become the country's major domestic terrorism problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
