Eco-terrorists leave incendiary devices at Michigan bottling facility (9/26/2003)

In a recent act of ecological terror, Earth Liberation Front (ELF) activists broke into a Michigan water-bottling facility and planted four incendiary devices. The group threatened that, "When all legal avenues of dissent have been undertaken to no avail, only one option remains: illegal direct action."

On September 22, four plastic bottles containing flammable liquid were discovered at the Ice Mountain Spring Water Company in Stanwood, Michigan. The ELF, a group known by the FBI as one of the most active domestic terror organizations, claimed responsibility for the action.

"We will no longer stand idly be (sic) while corporations profit at the expense of all others. To this end, we have taken action against one of the pumping stations that Perrier uses to steal water," the Earth Liberation Front said in a news release.

Animal rights terrorists also claimed responsibility for the recent bombing of Chiron Corporation's offices, a biotechnology firm near San Francisco. A group calling itself the Revolutionary Cells Animal Liberation Brigade left two pipe bombs equipped with timers outside the Chiron offices.

The FBI is investigating these acts.

The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance is working with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a bipartisan membership association for conservative state lawmakers, to help curb attacks like these by promoting the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act (AETA). The bill creates penalties for persons encouraging, financing, assisting or engaging in acts of animal and ecological terrorism.

"The U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance is eager to combat animal rights terrorism," said U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance President Bud Pidgeon. "We are working with legislators across the country to introduce the Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act. Five states have already passed or introduced legislation that will punish those who use violence to intimidate legitimate researchers, business people, farmers, sportsmen and others."

ALEC echoed that statement.

"Most states make no legal distinction between a disgruntled youth vandalizing a public park and an organized eco-terrorist torching a family's home," said Sandy Liddy Bourne, advisor to ALEC's Homeland Security Working Group. "The legislation specifically addresses actions that are designed to intimidate, coerce, invoke fear, or other forms of terror that are committed in the name of environmental or animal rights activism."

For more information about the legislation, contact the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance at (614) 888-4868.

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