VL-IV: Two or Three Things About Her

[Robin Landseadel]

	FBI Involvement



	The FBI's campaign against Earth First! is a reminder to leftists

	that the FBI has not abandoned COINTELPRO -style

	subversion of progressive political activity, and should be a

	wake-up to Greens that environmental activism, even though it

	enjoys the overwhelming support of the American people, is

	hated and feared by the corporate-government oligarchy as an

	antithetical ideology.



	All the cops need to know is that Earth First! directly challenges

	the American Way of Life and is therefore "the enemy". The FBI

	infiltrated Earth First! shortly after it was founded. In 1988, a

	major FBI sting operation, codenamed THERMCON, was

	launched against Earth First! in Prescott, Arizona. The FBI spent

	$3 million and employed over 50 FBI agents, extensive

	wiretaps, and overt entrapment, trying to persuade Arizona

	Earth First!ers to blow up power lines. Much to their chagrin, the

	 FBI agent/provocateurs failed to persuade the activists to learn

	to use explosives, but did interest a few hotheads in using

	cutting torches to bring down power transmission lines. The FBI

	provided the torch, showed them how to use it, provided

	transportation to the site, then busted the activists when they

	tried to cut down the power-transmission pole in May, 1989.

	"The first lesson in activism" joked Judi Bari, "is that the person

	that offers to get the dynamite is always the FBI agent."



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