cancel2 2022 (07-25-2021)
Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management is in trouble in the Senate, as she should be. Tracy Stone-Manning is / was a member of Earth First!, a designated environmental -domestic terrorist group. She participated in tree spiking (driving large nails into trees in order to injure or kill loggers using chainsaws), among other things.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=uxbndlbing
https://www.energy.senate.gov/2021/7...-investigation
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...piking-invest/
That the Biden administration could even consider nominating a domestic terrorist to such a post is beyond the pale. Yet, the Left keeps trying to tell us the radical Right is the danger when the radical Left is trying to take national power.
This is an absolutely clear example of why anyone who's sane would vote against every Democrat on the 2022 ticket. No one should accept or want our country run in any way, shape, or form by people who would accept a domestic terrorist in public office for any position.
Earth First! and terrorism:
https://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/earth-firstEarthFirst! activists envisioned a revolutionary movement to set aside multi-million acre ecological preserves. They used disruptive direct action as a stalling tactic in an attempt to prevent possible environmental destruction while Earth First! lawsuits attempted to secure long-term victories. Tactics included road blockades, activists locking themselves to heavy equipment, tree-sitting, and sabotage of machinery. More militant members of Earth First! split into another, more violent Earth Liberation Front.Third Edition Direct Action ManualIn 2017, Earth First! released the third edition of their "Direct Action Manual" described as “The DAM is almost 300 pages of diagrams, descriptions of techniques and a comprehensive overview of the role direct action plays in resistance—from planning an action, doing a soft blockade, putting up a treesit or executing a lockdown; to…
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/ne...-eco-terrorismDisaffected environmentalists, in 1980, formed a radical group called "Earth First!" and engaged in a series of protests and civil disobedience events. In 1984, however, members introduced "tree spiking" (insertion of metal or ceramic spikes in trees in an effort to damage saws) as a tactic to thwart logging. In 1992, the ELF was founded in Brighton, England, by Earth First! members who refused to abandon criminal acts as a tactic when others wished to mainstream Earth First!. In 1993, the ELF was listed for the first time along with the ALF in a communique declaring solidarity in actions between the two groups. This unity continues today with a crossover of leadership and membership. It is not uncommon for the ALF and the ELF to post joint declarations of responsibility for criminal actions on their web-sites. In 1994, founders of the San Francisco branch of Earth First! published in The Earth First! Journal a recommendation that Earth First! mainstream itself in the United States, leaving criminal acts other than unlawful protests to the ELF.
cancel2 2022 (07-25-2021)
What, exactly, is "the radical Left" anyways? Anyone you don't agree with? Anyone who won't suck on the Toadstool?
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
cancel2 2022 (07-25-2021)
Geeko Sportivo (07-17-2021), no worries (07-25-2021), Trumpet (07-25-2021), Whythink (07-17-2021)
Fair enough.
Appeasing Leftist terrorists is radical & extreme
Another fair point
Trump was a Right wing terrorist ring leader in the Inserection... but, that's not radical & extreme?
Hmm..
BTW the controversial "tree-spiking" thing was over 30 years ago. You know, like many of Trump's crimes that we weren't supposed to mention.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...gations-499739
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
Whythink (07-17-2021)
The same sort of people that populate the radical Right only in far greater numbers and desirous of totalitarian, Communist, hardline Socialist, Maoist, and other oppressive and controlling societies. On the radical Right you get true anarchists, separatists, and groups like sovereign citizens who act largely independently of one and other.
Tracy Stone-Manning is a good choice and should be approved.
why nominate a domestic terrorist? there aer plenty other capable nominees
PostmodernProphet (07-17-2021)
Any proof that she "spiked" trees?
.But two of the men convicted in the 1989 tree-spiking plot told E&E News that Stone-Manning did, in fact, have foreknowledge of the plot. Two other co-conspirators in the plot, however, said she did not know in advance about the plot.
In 1989, a few months before the tree spiking, Stone-Manning promoted an environmental festival that included a "tree-spiking contest," according to archives of the Montana Kaiman reviewed by Fox News. That revelation has not been previously reported
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...cid=uxbndlbing
A retired USDA forestry agent that investigated her Earth First! activities thought so...
https://www.energy.senate.gov/servic...9-48809E1E56EB
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...piking-invest/Michael W. Merkley, a retired USDA Forest Service special agent, told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that Tracy Stone-Manning, in line to head the key environmental agency, was “vulgar, antagonistic and extremely anti-government” at the time of the incident.
“Contrary to many of the stories in the news, Ms. Stone-Manning was not an innocent bystander, nor was she a victim in the case,” said Mr. Merkley in the letter shared Thursday with The Washington Times. “And, she was most certainly not a hero.”
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