Militant Environmentalists Call for Executions and ‘Decisive Ecological Warfare’
- Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:29am by
Tiffany Gabbay
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“Do we need a militant movement to save the planet (and ourselves)?”
That was the question posed in recent article on the left-wing site Alternet when it interviewed a group of radical environmentalists who are allegedly endorsing “Decisive Ecological Warfare.” And in order to realize their goal of ridding the planet of industrial civilization — even modern agriculture — the group intends to employ tactics “of both militaries and insurgents the world over.”
One of the activists, Derrick Jensen, allegedly even believes those who destroy the environment should be summarily executed: “If it were up to me, all the people associated with the Gulf oil spill, which is murdering the Gulf, would be executed. That would be part of the function of a state,” said Jensen.
In addition to Jensen, the two other environmentalists interviewed in the article – Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay — have spearheaded a fringe movement called the “Deep Green Resistance” (with a book of the same name) that calls for “direct attacks on infrastructure” and an annihilation of civilization as we know it.
According to the far-left triumvirate, humanity must devolve into living primitive, “indigenous” lifestyles. To this end, Keith targeted a litany of ills that must be stopped, declaring: “We need a culture that is self-consciously oppositional to things like corporate power, capitalism, industrialization and ultimately civilization, because that is the arrangement of power on this planet right now.”
But how does the group intend to implement such extreme goals? That is where the Decisive Ecological Warfare part comes in. According to DGR’s website, their type of warfare has four phases that will allegedly lead up to the “fall of industrial civilization.” The first phase, according to the organization’s charter, is “Networking & Mobilization“ followed by ”Sabotage & Asymmetric Action.” The site lays out the group’s strategy:
Strategy A: Engage in direct militant actions against industrial infrastructure, especially energy infrastructure.
Strategy B: Aid and participate in ongoing social and ecological justice struggles; promote equality and undermine exploitation by those in power.
Strategy C: Defend the land and prevent the expansion of industrial logging, mining, construction, and so on, such that more intact land and species will remain when civilization does collapse.
Strategy D: Build and mobilize resistance organizations that will support the above activities, including decentralized training, recruitment, logistical support, and so on.
Strategy E: Rebuild a sustainable subsistence base for human societies (including perennial polycultures for food) and localized democratic communities that uphold human rights.
The stated goal of DGR is to “deprive the rich of their ability to steal from the poor and the powerful of their ability to destroy the planet. This will require defending and rebuilding just and sustainable human communities nestled inside repaired and restored landbases. This is a vast undertaking but it needs to be said: it can be done. Industrial civilization can be stopped.”
All infrastructure, even modern agriculture did not escape the threesome’s wrath as they apparently consider “sustainable agriculture” an “oxymoron.”
The original Alternet interview with DGR leaders went on to reveal what McBay believes should replace industrial civilization if the movement were successful in carrying out its goals: “If we are talking about a post-industrial society, then I think we have to draw on the examples of traditional, indigenous societies.”
What’s more, the group barely tries to conceal its disdain for the average Americans who probably find DGR’s brand of extremism distinctly repugnant. Keith stated, “I’m not speaking to mainstream America. I don’t know how to talk to those people, and there is no point in me trying.” And Jensen only mirrored the sentiment, saying, “I don’t understand why it is even controversial to talk about dismantling industrial civilization when it has shown itself for 6,000 years to be destroying the planet and to be systemically committing genocide.”
But don’t worry. As Alternet points out, Keith does make a distinction about violence in the book.
“I would urge the following distinctions,” writes Keith, “the violence of hierarchy vs. the violence of self-defense, violence against actual people vs. violence against property, and the violence as self-actualization vs. the violence of political resistance.”
“Just because they mention violence doesn‘t mean it’s the best policy,” Alternet says in its article as a way of trying to salvage readers who might be non-violent.
But it is an option.
(H/T: NewsBusters)
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Comments (257)
Non-regulator
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:58amIsn’t part of environmental and social justice making sure people in poverty have big screen T.V.s? Oh, and if La Oblaba wins, this would likely be taken up.
Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:04amSame as it ever was
Playing another round of golf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJGHGeLSeE&feature=player_embedded
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:06amBut since we waste all our monies on federal debt interest and corporations will be taxed into closing! We will only have C-Span and PBS to watch….so who cares if you 12“ or 54” plasma you will only have two channels with Barry re-runs to watch!
Report Post »ashestoashes
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:20amCute name…la oblabla These guys are over the top…but in reality not any more than the rest of the left fruitcakes. We were founded on the principles of God, freedom…and capitalism which is freedom. I wish these left freedom haters would just move to a communist country andl leave us alone. But now to the more important things..I also wish this government would stay out of our farmer’s business and let the farmers produce all they want and not be messing with the dna of our food. It would be nice to have food grown naturally without crossing them with spiders and other off the wall things. God made everthing like he did for a reason and I wish they would quit playing God and let us get back to naturally whole foods.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:23amIt proves how demented these environ-whackos are – they’d kill people over something that harmed absolutely no human being.
It’s crazy.
Report Post »JohnGalt
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:27amAnd they call Tea-Party terrorists, wheres the media on this??
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:43amThe Mosaic Law is Social Justice. Non compliance serves them well.
These environmentalist are no different than the builders of the Tower of Babel, let us make a name for ourselves! Which also, is the heart of our personal problems today.
Takes more work to avoid God our Father creator than it is to simply submit to Him.
PeaceWithGod.net
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:10amYou mean like in Africa? Where all is well, except for, ugh, everything?
Report Post »Yes I can see how disrupting the most prosperous and compassionate USA would of course lead to chaos and bring us to the equal of Africa. And how that would be just so great for everyone in the world.
Quit smoking that dope Al Gore and you greenies!
HKS
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:20amProof that social programs create monsters.
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:25amStrategy B: Aid and participate in ongoing social and ecological justice struggles; promote equality and undermine exploitation by those in power.
Report Post »Strategy E: Rebuild a sustainable subsistence base for human societies (including perennial polycultures for food) and localized democratic communities that uphold human rights.
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So they are willing to kill and destroy and then they claim to be about human rights? If they succeeded, they would be “those in power” exploiting the masses (the masses that remained) – so then I supposed we would have to turn on them too. A “sustainable subsistence” would not be possible once they destroyed civilization – civilization is what brought us sustainable subsistence. These morons claim to be for things that are diametrically opposed to each other
FormerLib
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:57am**“If it were up to me, all the people associated with the Gulf oil spill, which is murdering the Gulf, would be executed. That would be part of the function of a state,” said Jensen.**
This statement beautifully encapsulates the inevitable result of the leftists statism we are headed for. Because once those people do gain control and it is “up to them”, these are exactly the sorts of things that happen- executions, false imprisonment, “re-education” camps, and so on. Statism always lowers the value of the individual in favor of the “collective good”, an entirely capricious and subjective standard. And every single country in the world that has tried it ends up the same- with gulags, or concentration camps, or labor camps, it’s all the same. All the while, leftists accuse the lovers of liberty and individual freedom of being ‘totalitarian’ and ‘nazis’ because we won’t bend to the will of the state.
Report Post »YEAHYOURIGHT
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:17amMy first thought upon hearing about the BP oil spill was that morons like this sabotaged it to either shut it down or make a point. Yes, this sounds off the rails, but so are these nutbars. Reading this makes me feel it is even more likely.
Which begs the questions…
How can they destroy all industrial infrastructure without cataclysmic environmental damage?
Exactly what industrialism has been going on for 6,000 years? Was this on planet Earth, or in one of their past lives or what?
They aren’t environmental. They are just MENTAL.
Report Post »Bluefish49
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:19amF: Drive to do all damage in your fossil fuel burning vehicle only after a meal of fresh vegitables grow on farms that use fossil fuel burning farm equipment. Use fossil fuel to burn building too the ground so that clean-up can be done by fossil fuel burning vehicles.
Report Post »Thomas
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 12:00pmCan we trust the government anymore or law Enforcement to take care of these wackos environmentalist and perverts that are trying to take over the world with violence? How long before we shut their mouths for them? These wimps wouldn’t even dare to show their coach roach faces if the honest people stood up to them. Bullies like these only understand when they get what they are looking for. Bad Bad Leroy Brown had to learn his lesson and so will they the hard way.
Report Post »BeerSnob
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 12:09pmAnybody know this idiot’s home address (assuming he actually has a home)?
Report Post »Just wondering….
smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 12:42pmThe whole econut ideology was dealt a full on nuke hit when NASA showed that everything they been pushing is based on totally useless and incorrect science. So the liberal playbook via saul’s manifesto says Rachets up the attacks when confronted with the TRUTH. So now we have Algor screaming and cursing during his latest BS public speaking engagement a nd we now have enviromentalist calling for executions…….LOL They are as perdictable as tuesday………And their title is half correct they know anything about the enviro-but they are certainly mental
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:19pmLooks like there are a few more Anders Breivik’s running around. I hope they are being watched because this sounds like another tragedy in the waiting.
Report Post »A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:22pm“And Jensen only mirrored the sentiment, saying, “I don’t understand why it is even controversial to talk about dismantling industrial civilization when it has shown itself for 6,000 years to be destroying the planet and to be systemically committing genocide.””
Government intervention (Corporatism, subsidies, protectionism, caste systems) has been responsible for the economic conditions which give rise to genocide, NOT CAPITALISM.
Intervention and Economic Crisis
http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods129.html
And as for the argument that says Capitalism has “destroyed the planet”: unless you mean the destruction of private property, what does that even mean?
Animals, volcanoes, and storms “destroy” the planet all the time, and the planet isn’t complaining – it’s an inanimate object, so it can’t care what you do to it.
And animals kill each other all the time, so washing oil off of a few birds isn’t going to do anything for their population numbers. In fact, raising them for food does more to increase their population numbers than environmentalism ever could.
See here.
Stossel Show – The Tragedy Of The Commons! (Part 2/4)
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PuxMS4ooPc
nptden
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:35pmWhere is the response from Homeland Security or the FBI? Lotta hate speech and insurrection here. Wonder how many of these ‘loons’ and revolutionaries work for the EPA. Sure seems the EPA is implementing programs that fit in with their goals. What about the Agenda 21 people?
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:24pmThe raving a–h—s that put the “Snail Dart” and “Gulf Smelts” ahead of thousands of people and a whole food producing industry should be lined up and shot so there you go.
Report Post »UBETHECHANGE
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:58amThey need to be jailed for treasonous plots against America. Al Gore would be so proud. Homeland Security? FBI? Hello
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:03amAnd it goes from bad to worst, look who is part of the green movement
Report Post »http://www.nazi.org/nazi/national_socialism/
DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:15amPlease, please, come and attempt to execute me. I drive an evil SUV. I also own a large, large amount of lead that I would be willing to hand over to you.
Report Post »snidley-whiplash
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 6:14pmIf it were up to me the green would not be here to talk about it!
Report Post »USAqh
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:57amhmmm …. sounds like a Hollywood movie script to me … Seven Stories Press published the book – wonder who owns that company? Soros maybe?
Report Post »starman70
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:27amWhen the radical leftist environmentalists realize they are losing the battle of TRUTH they resort to threats of violence. Hacked e-mails and true global data have already shown that “Global Warming” is one of the most cleverly orchestrated scams ever devised.
Read below and then copy the website info to your browser and read for yourself what NASA has determined.
You didn’t hear this report on ANY of the mainstream liberal media outlets.
They (NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN,THE TIMES “?NEWS? PAPER GROUP AND THE FAR LEFT LIBERAL DUMMYCRATS) worked too hard promoting this lie.
The HOAX by which certain “Scientists” have bilked many millions of dollars
from governments, foundations and universities has been proven false by NASA.
http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-global-warming-alarmism-192334971.html
Several alarmists including Al Gore became millionaires touting the false mantra
of Global Warming, while everyone with common sense knows that those
alarmists were way out in left field.
The only truth of the movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” is that Gore was able
Report Post »to buy a multi million dollar mansion in California after making it.
Doc
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:57amThis Lierre Keith fool has a Pay Pal link on her website so you can send her loot. Guess she doesn’t want to be all that primitive. But hey… I’m all for it. They should shuck their clothes and drop everything then head on off into the deep woods.
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:39amAnd wear antlers on their heads during deer season!
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:56amMurder? Really? That’s your answer?
Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200 dollars.
Silversmith
Report Post »upstateny
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:56amThis IS Treason. Everyone better get used to it, they are on a roll. Once this kind of criminal gets their clueless drones moving it gets ugly. They don’t have the ability to stop them and they are too stupid to know when to back down.
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:55amEh Bud, come here a sec. You don’t look green. Boom. It is DIP WADS like this that force me to be carrying when I leave my home. They are SPOOKY like SPOOKY DUDE. This is only one of many of “ORGANIZED GANGS” that are out there and will do you bodily harm. Jeff Cooper (Old Border Patrol Agent) explained it in his color alert system.. Green in my house. Yellow whenever I leave my home. Red when I am near DIP WADS(My Adjective). That means whenever I am among the throngs. Esp. big cities.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:54amThese individuals need to be arrested immediately if not sooner.
Report Post »mwhaley
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:54amThese nut whack job tree hugging fruit balls want to eliminate the population. They need to lead by example. Do a Jonestown.
Report Post »Escapee1
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:52amThese are the home-grown terrorists that Homeland Security and FBI need to be focused on….they are a REAL danger to America…
Report Post »bread and circuses
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:59amIf it were up to me I would have all of these eco-terrorists executed !
Report Post »strongtexan
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:51amEnvironmentalist nutjobs and Islam are major threats to America. Both are terrorist groups that want the destruction of our country and we need to stop them now!
Report Post »Inlandmar2
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:51amWith the exception of direct military action, this “Wacko’s” manifesto is a direct reflection of the goals and objectives of UN Agenda 21. People!…don’t think that these “wacko” ideas are not getting traction. UN Agenda 21 activities are being promoted at every level of government here in the land of the free. Ever hear any of the following terms: ICLEI, Greenbelt, Bike Path, Sustainable Development, Transportation Corridor, Wildlands, Rural Council, etc. All of these are right out of the UN Agenda 21 playbook. Make no mistake about it. UN Agenda 21 is the blueprint for the new world order. Hey! Don’t believe me. Research UN Agenda 21 yourself. Check out your local governments, you will find UN Agenda 21
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:39amHey, does anybody want to meet and greet these geniuses?
If you want to bring DGR to your area, write to Lierre at lierrekeith@yahoo.com
OR
http://derrickjensen.org/appear.html
Tuesday, September 6, Victoria, BC
Living in a Culture of Abuse: with Derrick Jensen. A live conversation {via Skype} at Camas Books with Derrick Jensen. Bring your questions. Starts at 7PM. More info here.
Camas Books
2590 Quadra st, unceeded Lekwungen Territories
Victoria, BC
Tuesday, Sept 20, Arcata, CA
Bring back the Buffalo is an evening of music by native artists and open discussion lead by Derrick Jensen, writer and philosopher, and Mike Mease, campaign co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign. The event is free, but donations taken at door if you’d like to contribute to the work of BFC. The event starts at 7PM in the BSS Native Forum Room (16th and Union St.) at HSU. Map here.
Sunday, November 13, San Francisco, CA
Report Post »Earth at Risk is a full day of visionaries and revolutionary actvists, including Arundhati Roy, Chris Hedges, and Derrick Jensen.
dnewton
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 3:04pmYou forgot the International Baccalaureate Program in the high schools. The purpose of which is to make people citizens of the world. This eliminates nationalism which eliminates all of the root causes of war. Religious wars are to be eliminated by getting rid of religion, God and the idea that there is anything wrong with people except they need to pay more taxes. I remember telling my Dad that the cause of WWII was nationalism and he told me( elpleative deleted) that his take was that it was caused by Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini.
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:49amI wonder how they will organize without the electricity and the internet or phones? Snail mail? Oh wait the requires trucks and planes……chiseled rock tablets or smoke signals? Truly the epitome of idiocy.
Report Post »MomaGrisley2
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:51amEspecially their AL GORE PRIVATE JETS!!!
Report Post »BGECc
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:48amWhy did the oil companies have to drill in such deep water. ENVIRONENTALIST
Report Post »WACKO’S. So maybe these three need to start with themselves before killing anyone else!
cloudsofwar
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 8:58amthey can thank OBUMMER. Are they threatening the President?
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:48amYes. Stop the genocide by killing everyone. Liberal eco-logic at it’s best. These people belong in an institution, not behind a book or movement. If i lived in the stone age i’d be the first one to club these people. Sounds like they partake a little too much of mother nature in the dark hours of the night. Their kind will see that legalized soon enough and then their deluded ranks will swell.
Report Post »wolfhound
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:47amJust follow the story about Rawsome foods to see what these people are angry about. When I see the abuse that the government is perpertrating against the american people, I ask, what is it going to take to do something about this situation?
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:28amThey believe it will take murder. Please be first in line for their solution. That’s a good citizen! Thank you.
Report Post »Indymaverick
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:46amSounds like loony Nanci Pelosi and fat boy Al Gore has stirred up the radicals. Those 2 need to arrested for treason.
Report Post »louise
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:45amthese progressive green groups always place the earth and animals above that which God created in his own image (man).
Report Post »Mankind is the last thing they consider worth “saving”.
I am sure that this particular group is associated with the zero population growth crowd.
cripplecreek
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:45amThey‘re going to get worse because America will have to utilize our resources and they aren’t going to like it.
Report Post »clockwatcher
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:44amIs this hate speech or race hate. Remember this event happened under the leadership of the black jimmy carter. Can you nuts say anything bad about onbama?
Report Post »Cat
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:43amLunatic fringe?
Report Post »Hell, theses dopes jumped head first into lunacy.
They should be re-institutionalized.
poverty.sucks
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:42amAs with every other people group before us who wants to do their own thing, God says, “Go ahead, see what happens”. Man fails with every attempt when away from the word of God.
Report Post »70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:40amWe used to be able to throw these nuts in a mental institution. They need a visit from the authorities.
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:17amAloicious Gore is probably funding this group, therefore they will be left alone to do damage. Aren’t humans part of the ecosystem. Didn’t we come from dirt?
Report Post »Leave my dirt alone and quit bothering corporations who hire people and pay tons of taxes.
LICENSEDTOCARRY
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:39amAn anarchist by any other name is still an anarchist.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 7:35amJesus Christ is the option. God is the ultimate authority. The unbelief is a concience choice to be deceived. These environmentalist are no different that queers, choice to disregard Gods authority.
Report Post »trv1
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 9:51amI mean, I am not religious or anything, but I am pretty sure that there is nothing in either the old testament or new testament saying whether or not you can or can not kill someone over an oil spill.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 1:03pmGod, through Moses, provides us with Social Justice, Mosaic Law. God gives us the freedom to choose, righteous or evil. Every man has knowledge between right and wrong. Amazing to see all the excuses men and women use to justify wrong decisions.
Report Post »They SMEAR what they FEAR
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 4:40pmDude, please don’t use “Social Justice” in the same paragraph with the Holy Word.
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