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to do much better show. than to. call them back half past the hour time to check the main and new stories today on our t.v. human rights groups are shunning the u.k.'s program to torturing prisoners overseas it's offered details surface about britain secret policy of using extreme measures if it uncovered information consider them valuable enough. jeff a seven hundred go at moscow's international air show as a global buyers and flying from out of its taxi out for the best of aviation house walk for billions of dollars of sales are expected for both military and civilian
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aircraft. china tests its first aircraft carrier as it be soft its military machine it will take several years to fully equipped the castle but beijing says its navy is already entry a new chapter. and as the syrian army reportedly farmers of thousands of anti-government protesters across the country some the syrians say they're glad to see attacks moving into their towns of a claim that security forces are protecting them from our gangs who were terrorizing residents. and now we'll tell you the story of the eco warriors who put themselves on the line to protect the world's environment the second part of that special report is up next.
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one o'clock in the morning me and ryan left to romania car dealership three one in america regardless we made sure that there were no people around the buildings that were nearby were vacant. and we started a fire that resulted in forty thousand dollars with damage to three trucks unfortunately it's taken me to start a fire he's found guilty of several different crimes he sentenced to twenty two years before people want to pay attention to things that i had to say or people like me had to say. should i stay here for the duration of my sentence the entire world and life that i've had up to this point will be nonexistent twenty one years from now that's
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hard to swallow. since that's real difficult but i can't look back knowing what i know and how and what i have in my heart. group trying. this was the longest prison sentence for any environmental an animal rights activists in oregon the average sentence for arson if you're convicted of arson is two years so for jeff to get twenty three years for the same exact crime based on his political beliefs was outrageous and completely unheard of i think that the sentence that the judge imposed was meant to be an extreme deterrent to any other activists who had ever considered this form of economic sabotage as as a sign of their protest. when his appeal was
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finally heard the decision was declared unlawful and the sentence was ruled as on just after nine and a half years of prison he began his life as a free man at the age of thirty one having spent all of his twenty's in a maximum security prison. florida going to prison when i used to travel whenever possible i would have brains and in fact just about a mild out word is where we used to hop out of u.g. and we would hide in the bushes away for a train moving just slightly slower than this. i mean my buddies would load all of our stuff on i carry my dog underneath my arm and we take the train down to san francisco. that used to be where all the tree sitters from fall creek used to go on
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vacation. we live in a world that's forgotten how to survive without industry we've forgotten how to be a part of nature and because of that we've lost a piece of ourselves we have a system of government and economic system that is mathematically impossible the whole theory behind capitalism is infinite expansion infinite growth of profits and
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you can't do that when you live on a planet with finite resources what happens if we don't resist is we completely lose our souls whether you're using legal or extra legal tactics to. resist corporate dominance and government oppression and put a stop to climate change those it's justifiable resisting this is justifiable. when nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists bin laden was out hiding they couldn't find anyone to bring into the courts of justice so that they could claim we've got terrorists and so in the wake of nine eleven even though all of these crimes occurred prior to nine eleven we all of
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a sudden heard the drums beating of this anti-terrorist montra and because the feds couldn't find any real terrorists they decided to take these young people who were accused of property sabotage and label them as terrorists is a direct action are over considered a registered domestic terrorist in this country with file inches that has no idea how big it is. i can't do the things that used to do but what i can do is share my story share my experiences and continue to advocate for the world that i want to see and continue to try to create real and meaningful change. today we're announcing the addition of the annual. go to the f.b.i.'s most wanted terrorist list who is wanted for his alleged involvement in the bombing of two biotechnology facilities in the san francisco bay area san diego's criminal acts of
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violence were domestic acts of terror planned out and possibly intended to take lives destroyed property and create economic hardship for the companies involved the f.b.i. is announcing today a reward of up to two hundred fifty thousand dollars for information leading to the location and arrest of daniel injurious san diego animal rights and environmental extremists remain a significant threat based on the economic damage and widespread nature of this threat. these extremists have been responsible for over one thousand eight hundred criminal acts and more than one hundred ten million dollars in damages.
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and i tell people that i was thrown in jail for refusing to testify at this thing that a grand jury where wasn't even a trial they don't believe me they say now all they can to try that's unconstitutional or that's that's not allowed in this country this is a free country. we pull say that all the time. so i was in nursing school it was late may two thousand and six and these f.b.i. agents showed up at my door and gave me these papers that said i was subpoenaed to a grand jury. i was targeted because i had a history of environmental activism and what specifically because i you know how dissociation this with people who they thought may have been involved
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with crimes and i knew that a grand jury was this court hearing where they're going to ask you ask me all these questions about anything they want to and there was not going to be a judge there and i wouldn't have been able to have a lawyer present and i was pretty sure they were going to ask me about these people and what i knew about them and if i knew any other people who may know them and you know things along those lines they i think they were investigating the operation back fire investigator and the only thing i know is they put gave me showed me a picture of this one person. and said do you know this person and at that point i said i'm not cooperating. so they sent me to jail and they ended up keeping me there for six months without being charged with a crime at all
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i still support that everybody who's working on those issues but i for my own mental health i had to step back and and take a deep breath and a look at. what was going on around me and rethink what i was doing with my life. operation back far was an attempt by law enforcement or the congress working
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jointly with corporations and corporate mystery groups to not only try and stop individuals who were committed these actions but to also make sure that public opinion did not support these organisations and make sure that these movements as a whole were completely destroyed completely destroyed so there's no trace of any kind of resistance no threat to the u.s. economy no threats to corporations. the real people who are green in this country are the housewives who recycle and the children who plant trees on the weekend with their cub scout troops. and the fathers like me who might buy a hybrid car that's the green you have an i loose confederation
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of activist groups that are bent on causing damage and violence and destruction in order to get what they want and what they want is a return to nineteenth century agriculture i returned to nineteenth century. home building nine hundred century population numbers they want to reverse the society to the way it used to be it's a very shortsighted way of looking at the world our mission is to talk to the public talk to americans and to educate them about the threats from activists and governments and everywhere else other threats to the food they eat and the choices they make and frightens we have financing from many many ordinary people and also about a handful of companies that like what we do and want to see us keep doing it. well
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we don't need them and never. the people behind us are actually some of the largest corporations in the country people like pfizer wyatt plaxo smith kline the national cattlemen's beef association the first commission all these industries and corporations with a vested interest in lately are just as terrorists in addition to that they're all industries with a lot of financial influence on congress and they don't even have a lead to these campaigns it helped elect many of the same people that they then called upon to label activists as terrorists. the lady and gentleman police and raise your right hands do each of you solemnly swear that
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testimony you are about to give the something really should be the truth the whole truth nothing but true so help you god. and eco terrorists same to want to destroy civilization as we know it in order to save the planet close quote h.r. forty two thirty nine would expand the reach of the animal enterprise terrorism statute to specifically clude the use of force violence or threats against entities that do business with animal enterprise organizations we need this legislation to enable the police to become proactive in the way they conduct their investigations these people are organized along terrorist cells independently operating and using the internet and emails hunder stimulant and websites that do not operate within the united states or united kingdom mr potter property crimes
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are already punishable or so-called in what enterprise terrorism this bill the risk further expanding that sweeping category to occlude protests and boycotts undercover investigations whistleblowing and nonviolent civil disobedience this legislation will add to this kind of fear and distrust and it will force americans to ask themselves is it worth it standing up for my beliefs really worth the risk of being labeled a terrorist. i urge you to reject this bill make sure that a limited anti-terrorism resources are used to protect national security and similar not profits we thank you for your corporation attendance and without objection stopped with. the irony of all this eco terrorism legislation and rhetoric is that it's happening at a time when everyone says they're an environmentalist everyone cares about the environment
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everyone is going green right now you know there is more public support for environmental issues than ever before and these corporations and these politicians understand this very well there is a report by the department of homeland security the talked about the threat of so-called eco terrorism and one of the points that they raised in this report was that there is a danger with the growing awareness with very little issues that mainstream people being taken in radicalized in not only taking a more radical belief system but also after on those values. i am married to daniel how i'm sure he is currently serving a seven year sentence for arson and scarcity. he was involved in property
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destruction for two facilities one of them being a lumber company and one of them being a company that creates genetically modified trees. he was originally facing life in prison. it was the night of her anniversary i think and i didn't get a call from him which was really strange because he would have definitely called and then i called the prison to find out anything happened and then of course they could. tell me anything and then later we find out he was moved he was in the process of being moved to. marion illinois it's in southern illinois and he's being moved to a unit called a communication management unit something that actually no one had ever heard about and we don't know anything about. so these units pulled what they consider people not necessarily charged with terrorism but somehow associated with
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terrorism which is very vague and it could basically mean anything they want it to mean. i lived in new york for nine eleven i experienced that. for me it's kind of. really difficult to swallow that label being put on him considering i actually do know what. terrorism is and. someone who destroyed property. with absolutely zero intention of harming i think all human being. in my mind is not here. president obama's pledge to close guantanamo on the secret overseas cia prisons calls are increasing for him to reexamine the treatment of prisoners detained as part of the so-called war on terror being held inside the united states with little
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public scrutiny of the bush administration open to secretive prisons and indiana and illinois newness communication management units or cmu is that are designed to severely restrict person or communication with family members the media and the outside world dozens of muslim men are still being held at the cme news as well as other person or secluding environmental and animal rights activists the government's provided little information about the special prison units a search on the bureau of prisons website yields just one document even mentioning the program only a handful of news articles have covered what's been described as a little guantanamo by some of the person hours. and april of two thousand and ten we filed a lawsuit against the bureau of prisons the attorney general eric holder. director of the bureau of prisons harley and and other high level individuals within the
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bureau and we are alleging that the communications management units are unconstitutional but another part of this is really defending activists as they are charged and challenging these new laws as unconstitutional you know the federal government is now attempting to prosecute protesters as terrorists and we need to call attention to this we need to argue about it in court and we also need to educate people on educate other social justice activists who may be the next target for instance in the case of scott brown youth in minneapolis minnesota the government attorney in that case actually argued before the court that's got to do with this is a known anarchist therefore is a domestic terrorist it was that an address is an anarchist therefore he is a terrorist and i said of evidence of that they talked about literature that was found in his whole books but i'm a cold and about the haymarket murders and from so it's purely about beliefs and
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targeting of. it does resonate with me you know my grandparents were julius and ethel rosenberg and first they were executed in the one nine hundred fifty s. her conspiracy to commit astley and. that was the charge but really the trial was all about allegedly having given the secret of the atomic bomb to the soviet union to the russians and while there was a huge outcry of support from many activists across the country and internationally you know huge international movement to support that and to see clemency there were many others who we would have expected to have been involved in that battle who were afraid and it's not hard to understand why they were afraid given the climate of the times but it's you know it's a history lesson that we can't afford to repeat.
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we have approximately here in the f.b.i. approximately one hundred seventy cases there are throughout all of our divisions in the f.b.i. . just dealing specifically with eco terrorism. we're going to say what to the questions that were presented. hull's in his ear this. is we will take. it that it is. which is it's just to see us i think that it will probably go it will be international and that's why it's very important that we here in the united states within the federal bureau of investigation and sure that we work very diligently
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with our international partners to ensure that these types of ideologies and crimes do not occur at their home. hills tourists are a mistake to think that in this building just some months ago where hundred and twenty had so say the largest gathering outside of the u.n. building and they had they failed to deliver. a deal to stop climate change but the whole world was waiting for about a moment so we dressed up in the eyes evening blown hired three cars bought some toys on the internet blue lights we made some false number plates zero zero seven like james bond. on the
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eve of the summit's final day two activists with a group greenpeace interrupted a state dinner for over one hundred world leaders at the danish royal palace dressed in formal evening where the couple one for a banner is reading politicians talk leaders the action came one day after two activists briefly interrupted the sometimes plenary chanting slogans for climate justice. the body. of those with power in government and the business sector why engage in mass scale corruption and mass scale and by them include crimes and who can the absolute included and and get away with it that i. thought. that. what we did most not something different from what we have done before but the twenty one days we got here the tension is actually the toughest sentence
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without trial that anyone that greenpeace activists ever have both in europe so it's really a change. i know that i will be charged with something possibly could give me up to or in principle could give me up to cheer years. element of trying to show time. public protest try to show. a fellow well direct action this is a phenomenon we sure were a white from the u.k. but we've seen preventative arrests where we see attempts crude attempts of police and for creation with the acoa human when they flee happens in the us the barely a country that you can point to well this is not. serious this ill is identified by the police as
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a keith agar ones dear special before major actions like nuclear waste transplant she's under surveillance like last time they arrested her before the transit once we tie off the police took a risk is it legal to take preventive action on the basis of superstitions well given that we think the police went way too far and that the law doesn't cover such arrests so i dismiss their families that suck a dick overthrown civil wars enable police to lock up innocent people that's a lot easier than holding a template trial where i file fifteen thousand motions are you bill or grant citizens the right to demonstrate the boundary airplanes like on first condition that condition and that's how they do it that's how our basic rights are restricted to operate some day if they'll disappear if we don't defend them.
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it takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major extinction event and the planet has time we don't so this is really about saving ourselves are we intelligent enough to save ourselves or not it's really up to the younger generations to take a stand because we're going to be left holding the bag in the end we're going to have to face the consequences of all the damage that's happened over these past centuries and. we can't wait for somebody else to do it with. me ok.
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