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Sustainable
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February
2003 |
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IWMC
World Conservation Trust |
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California Dreaming
- Fresno:
A Permissive Stage for the
Nightmare of Domestic Terrorism
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The left coast of North America was host to Hell's
eco-activists this past week, as some of the worst of America's eco-felons
came together to celebrate their victory over respect for law and ordinary
civilians in civil society. The scofflaws - Paul Watson, Rodney Coronado,
Craig Rosebraugh, Gary Yourofsky, and a handful of others, all were invited
by the social science faculty of California State at Fresno to speak at
the "Revolutionary
Environmentalism" conference on eco-terrorism, and to outline its
goals, value system, strategies, and successes. The symposium was convened
to "give them a voice" while "academics" and California
undergraduates all "celebrated the spiritualism" of the
eco-terror movement.
This astonishingly antisocial event was first highlighted by the Center
for Consumer Freedom, whose website, consumerfreedom.com, is well worth a
regular visit by anyone who wishes to keep abreast of information on those
who would break laws in the name of a "higher good." Local and
state police agencies were dispatched
to protect the Cal State at Fresno agricultural college and farm, since
animal agriculture has always been high on the list of eco-terrorists' pet
projects. Local automobile dealers also received extra protection because
these activists have recently targeted large vehicles in their "save
the earth" campaigns against use of fossil fuels. Some activists
recently burned a number of SUV vehicles in a Pennsylvania dealership, and
have never been apprehended.
Thanks to the Center for Consumer Freedom, California legislators took
notice of this event, which was closed to the public and to the press.
Concerned parents of Fresno students could not attend, nor could students
from other universities, the general public, or anyone who did not have a
Fresno State ID card. University officials admitted that the school would
pay the travel, lodging and meal  expenses of the participant terrorists. State legislators who
became exercised over this immediately began to examine the Cal State at
Fresno budget, since public funds are usually spent for the benefit of the
public, not for the benefit of those who threaten public welfare and the
general economy.
IWMC wishes the Fresno community and their students well in the
aftermath of the Revolutionary Environmentalism conference. Perhaps a
number of those students will recognize the hypocrisy of a public
university that pretends to "respect" extreme radicalism at
public expense, especially in today's jittery and vulnerable environment.
We support the punitive and investigative efforts of those California state
legislators who have decided that "political correctness" is the
act of demanding respect for law and the rights of all people to practice
animal agriculture and to sell and own the vehicles of their choice. Those
who advocate terrorist acts in any form are morally bankrupt, and they must
not be honored with public money while they indoctrinate our children with
their hateful values and strategies of anarchy. 
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