Greed & Vested Interests The Real Terror Threat

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Greed & Vested Interests The Real Terror Threat

 

By Leana Stormont

Guest Opinion

Iowa City Press-Citizen

5-26-5

 

Last week, a top FBI official cited violence by environmental and animal rights

extremists as " one of today's most serious domestic terrorism threats. " Down the

road from Capitol Hill, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals released the

results of an 11-month undercover investigation into a primate laboratory in

Vienna, Va., run by Covance, Inc. Between the Covance employees who strike,

choke, slam and curse at terrified monkeys and the people who illegally liberate

similarly situated animals, who is more violent (watch the footage at

http://www.covancecruelty.com and decide for yourself)?

 

This week the government of Brazil released disturbing figures showing that the

Amazon rain forest is being destroyed at the rate of nine football fields every

minute. The plants and animals that comprise more than 30 percent of the Earth's

total biodiversity are being evicted to make room for ranchers and herds of

cattle. How will we explain to our grandchildren that we traded environmental

diversity for bacon double cheeseburgers and Big Macs?

 

Closer to home, George W. Bush opened up 58.5 million acres of pristine national

forest land to vested interests who want to transect those forests with roads so

they can drive around in search of oil. In addition, House Republicans are

preparing to eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.

 

Covance, loggers, factory farmers and members of our own government are

terrorizing the Earth and its nonhuman animal inhabitants. If these people did a

better job of safeguarding our world, groups like the Animal Liberation Front

and the Earth Liberation Front would be less inclined to take the law into their

own hands. Vested interests and the politicians who represent them have no one

but themselves to blame for desperate activists taking desperate measures.

 

Read the complete story here:

http://rense.com/general65/terr.htm

 

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