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The philosophy of eco-terrorism.(Inside Track)
From 1996 to 2001 a shadowy group of eco-terrorists variously calling itself the Earth Liberation Front or the Animal Liberation Front attacked targets in the western United States, destroying properties that the group claimed threatened the environment. The attacks culminated with a spectacular and devastating blaze, set by arsonists, at a Vail, Colorado, ski resort. After a lengthy federal investigation, the perpetrators were apprehended and tried for their crimes, giving occasion for journalist Matt Rasmussen to investigate the motivations of the ELF terrorists. His lengthy and somewhat sympathetic report appears in the January/February issue of Orion Magazine, a left-leaning environmentalist journal.
One of the revelations to come out of Rasmussen's report is that some of the intellectual lineage of the eco-terror movement can be traced back to radical academic John Zerzan, a one-time confidant of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. According to Rasmussen, "In the '60s [Zerzan] was a Marxist and a Maoist and a Vietnam protester.... He now believes that Paleolithic humans and the few remaining primitive cultures provide the best models for how humans should subsist"
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Source: HighBeam Research, The philosophy of eco-terrorism.(Inside Track)