OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TARGETS AR ACTIVISTS AS ECO-TERRORISTS�

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THE GOVERNMENT’S COVERT, BUT TRUE, DEFINITION OF TERRORISM:ANY act which threatens to take political or corporate power/profits from the status quo.Brennan OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TARGETS ENVIRONMENTAL & ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AS ECO-TERRORISTSâ€[OpEdNews] What began under George Bush continues under Barack Obama - targetingdedicated activists with "one of today's most serious domesticterrorism threats," according former FBI Deputy Assistant Director ofCounterterrorism John Lewis before a Senate panel in May 2005. Called"eco-terrorism," it grew out of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that createdthe federal crime of "domestic terrorism" and applied it to UScitizens as well as aliens. In his February 2002 testimony before the House Resources Committee,Subcommittee

on Forests and Forest Health, the FBI's DomesticTerrorism Section Chief, Counterterrorism Division, James Jarboedefined eco-terrorism as: "the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature againstinnocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented,subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at anaudience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature." As a result, innocent people are targeted, accused, convicted andsentenced to hard time for constitutionally protected non-violentenvironmental activism or supporting animal rights. The so-called AETA4 are four recent ones and face prosecution under U.S.A. v. Buddenbergfor conspiracy to commit animal enterprise terrorism. On February 19 and 20, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force arrestedJoseph Buddenberg, Maryam Khajavi, Nathan Pope, and Adriana Stumpo andcharged them with conduct

relating to protesting, chalking thesidewalk, chanting, and leafleting - constitutionally protected rightsunder the First Amendment, but no matter. In a February 20 press release, the FBI called the four "animal rightsextremists suspected of terrorizing University of Californiaresearchers (and said they) used force, violence, or threats tointerfere with the operation of the (U of C) in violation of theAnimal Enterprise Terrorism Act." More on that below. FULL STORY AT:http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Administration-Targe-by-Stephen-Lendman-090605-93.html