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want to court in the morning. and from. left to the ramie a car dealership through one. 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 and found guilty of several different crimes be sentenced to twenty 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 and the entire world and the life that i've had up to this point will be non-existent twenty one years from now that's hard to swallow. since it's real difficult but i can't look back and knowing what i know and how and what i have my heart.

crude. this was the longest prison sentence for any environmental and 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 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. prior to going to prison when i used to travel whenever possible i would have trains and in fact just about a mile about what is where we used to hop out of eugene 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 my carry my dog underneath my arm. and we'd take the train down to san francisco. that used to be where all the tree sitters from small creek that used to go on vacation.

we live in a world that's forgotten how to survive without industry and 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 an economic system that is mathematically impossible the whole theory behind capitalism is infinite expansion infinite growth of profits and 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 the 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 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 my days of direct action

are over considered a registered domestic terrorist in this country with five inches i have no idea how big it is. i can't do the things that you used to do but what i can do is share my story share my experiences and continue that 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. san diego to the f.b.i.'s most wanted terrorist list wanted for his alleged involvement in the bombing of two biotechnology facilities in the san francisco bay area san diego's criminal acts of violence were domestic acts of terror planned out and possibly intended to take lives destroy 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 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. 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 no they can't do that that's

unconstitutional or that's that's not allowed in this country this is a free country. and people 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 but specifically because i you know how dissociation this with people who they thought may have been involved 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 backfire festa cation 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 now. i still support back 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 of congress working jointly with corporations and corporate ministry groups to not only try and stop individuals who were communities actions but to also make sure that public opinion did not support these organisations and nature of 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. who 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 a loose confederation 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 a return to nine hundred century. homebuilding one nine hundred centuries population numbers they want to revert 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 government and everywhere else other threats to the food they eat and the choices they make and the right ones 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 we don't need them and never.

the people behind us are actually some of the largest corporations in the country people like pfizer glaxo smith kline the national cattlemen's beef association the first question all these industries and corporations with a vested interest in labeling are just as terrorists in addition to that they're all industries with a lot of financial influence on congress and they don't need it have a lead to these campaigns they've helped on lots and many of the same people but they then called upon to label activists as terrorists. the lady and gentleman please stand and raise your right hands and each of you start to swear the testimony you are about to give this time to relation with the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth. and eco terrorists same to want to destroy civilization as we know it in order to

save the planet close core h.r. forty two thirty nine would expand the reach of the animal enterprise terrorism statute to specifically crude 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 are investigations these people are organized along terrorist cells independently operating and using the internet and emails crime distantly and web sites that do not operate within the united states well you know you can list carter property crimes are already punishable or so-called in war enterprise terrorism this bill the risk of further expanding that sweeping category to include protests and boycotts undercover investigations whistleblowing and nonviolent civil disobedience

this legislation will add to this climate of fear and distrust and it will force americans to ask themselves is it worth it is standing up for my beliefs really worth the risk of being labeled a terrorist. i urge you to reject this bill make sure the limited anti-terrorism resources are used to protect national security and human life not profits we thank you for your corporation attendance and without objection stop to disturb the jerk . the irony of all this eco terrorism legislation and rhetoric is that it's happening at a time when everyone says they're not an a-list everyone cares about the environment everyone is going green right now you know there is more public support for environmental issues than ever before and this corporations it is politicians understand this very well there is

a report by the department of homeland security that talked about the threat of so-called eco terrorism one of the points that they raised in this report was that there is a danger with the growing awareness of the carnival of issues that means true people being a different radicalized in not only taking a more radical belief system but also acting on those balloons. i am married to an accountant or is currently serving a seven year sentence for arson and scarcity. he was involved in property 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 kept my call and then i called the prison to find out anything happened and then of course they can . tell me anything and then later we find out he was moved he was in the process of being moved to. marion illinois to southern illinois and he's being moved to a unit called the communication management unit something that actually no one had ever heard about and we didn't know anything about. so these units hold what they consider people not necessarily charged with terrorism but somehow associated with 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. for 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 public scrutiny of the bush administration open to secretive persons and indiana and illinois known as communication management units or c m units 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 c.m. used as well as other person or so including 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 prisoners. in 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 highly and other high level individuals within the 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 the youth in minneapolis minnesota the government attorney in that case actually argued before the court that scott the youth is a known anarchist therefore is a domestic terrorist who is that i'm not direct is an anarchist therefore he is a terrorist and i said of evidence of that i talk about literature that was found in his. books but i'm a cold i mean property market murders and things like it's purely about beliefs and targeted on through. it does resonate with me you know my grandparents were julius and ethel rosenberg and hers they were executed in the one nine hundred fifty s. for conspiracy to commit asti and. that was the charge but really the trial was all

about them 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 hard to understand why they were afraid given the climate at the time but it's you know it's a history lesson that we can't afford to repeat. we have approximately here in the f.b.i.

approximately one hundred seventy cases that are throughout all of our divisions in the f.b.i. . just dealing specifically with the eco terrorism. we're going to stay right to the questions that were presented its hot topic it is this. it is a. christian it's this it was the u.s. 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 with our international partners to ensure that these types of ideologies and crimes are not occur at their home.

real source or a mistake to think that in this building just some months ago where hundred and twenty heads of state and the largest gathering outside of the u.n. building and they had they failed to deliver. a deal to stop climate change that the whole world was waiting for about a moment so we dressed up in my eyes evening blown hired tree cars bought some toy just on the internets blue lights we made some forts number plates zero zero seven like james bond. on the eve of the summit final day to activists with a group green peace and trumpeted a state dinner for over one hundred world leaders at the danish royal palace dressed in formal evening wear in the congo and for all manner of treating politicians talk leaders the action came one day after two activists briefly

interrupted the summer finery chanting slogans for climate justice. to go to. a close with power governments and the business sector why engage in mass kill corruption maskil and buy them include crimes and who can the absolutely included she and and get away with it that is. not. what we did was not something different from what we have done before but the twenty one days we go to hear the tension is actually the toughest sentence without trial that anyone that greenpeace activists ever have in europe so it's really a change. i know i will be charged with something that possibly could give me up to

or in principle to give me up to two years. of trying to show time. public protest trollish. peaceful nonviolent direct action this is a normal who she worldwide from the u.k. where we've seen preventative arrests will be she attempts crude attempts of police and gratian with the cold to movement definitely happens in the us the barely a country that is not going to well this is. serious this ill is identified by the police as a key thing a good ones best so before major actions like nuclear waste transports she's under surveillance like last time they arrested her before the transfer of

the police took a risk who had to be physically to take preventive action on the basis of superstitions and violent and we think the police went way too far and that the law doesn't cover such arrests so when i was there from visits architecture overthrown to always enable police to walk out of innocent people i think that's a lot easier than holding a template trial where i file fifteen thousand motions are you bill or grant citizens their right to demonstrate to us what we found the airplanes like on first condition that condition and that's how they do it that's how our basic rights are restricted or otherwise some day they'll disappear if we don't the founder. it takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from

a major extinction event but 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 and then and 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. says. i. and a. bit of a. wealthy

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