military. history. dynamics. to do friends. welcome back here's a recap of the latest news and the week's top stories on our t.v. the greek prime minister is expected to resign to allow a new coalition unity government to be formed for demands from the country's opposition from paul's criticism of the prime minister's halley of the country's debt crisis as options faces growing pressure from the e.u. to negotiate a new bailout package. police crackdown on the on the docket why who've been spreading fast across the country for nearly two months now but activists pledge to stand their ground in nonviolent protest against corporate media and social

inequality. russia questions the legality of that their boots trial after a number of jury probably businessmen guilty of international arms trafficking you faces between twenty five years to a life sentence in jail but his defense say that they plan of appeal. on the matter of mission to mars one step closer to reality this week this is experiment a modern round trip to the red planet i think a lot ended moscow where the six man crew successfully coped with five hundred twenty days in isolation. and next on our t.v. the second part of our special report on the modern day robin hoods that is will see we stop at nothing to protect mother earth the f.b.i. ranks them as one of the greatest threats to national security in the united states after al qaeda we take you behind the eco warrior front lawn.

around one o'clock in the morning me and friends left to the media car dealership we went in america regardless we made sure that there were no people around the buildings that were nearby were making. and we started a fire that resulted in forty thousand dollars with the damage to three trucks unfortunately it's taken me to start a fire and found guilty of several different crimes 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 liberation of my sons the entire world and life that i've had up to this point

will be non-existent twenty one years from now that's hard to swallow. since that's real difficult but i can't look back and knowing what i know and how and what i have my heart. crude 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 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 trains and just about a mile about where is where we used to hop out of eugene and we would hide in the bush is the way for a train moving just slightly slower than this me my buddies would load all of our stuff. i'd 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 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 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 nine eleven happened the bush administration could not find any terrorists bin ladin 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 are accused of property sabotage and label them as terrorists is a direct action are over considered registered to mr terrorist in this country with file interest but i have 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. 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 to mesnick 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.

when 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 zz 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 be 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 investigation 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 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 industry 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 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 i 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 i return to nine hundred century. homebuilding nine hundred century population numbers they want to reverse 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 are the threats to the food they eat and the choices they make and right now. we have financing from many many

ordinary people and also 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've donated have a lead to these campaigns they've helped on rocks many of the same people that they've been called upon to label activists as terrorists the lady and

gentleman policeman and raise your right hand. each of you solemnly swear the testimony you are about to give this that really should be the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth so help me god. and acro 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 quote the used 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 charice cells independently operating and using the internet and emails crime distantly home websites that do

not operate within the united states or the united kingdom most part are property crimes are already punishable as so-called animal enterprise terrorism has spilled the risk of further expanding that sweeping category it's unclear 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 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 now profits we thank you for your cooperation 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 are an environmentalist 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 and this 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 but one of the points that they raised in this report was that there is a danger with the growing awareness of environmental issues that mainstream people being different radicalized and not only taking a more radical belief system but also have to own those wounds. i am married to and like al gore is currently serving

a seven year sentence for arson conspiracy and 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 gotten a call and then i called the prison to find out they didn't happen 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 it's a 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 didn't know anything about. so these units pulled 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 wanted for me. i lived in new york for nine eleven i experienced that. for me it's a 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 re-examine 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 prisons and indiana and illinois known as communication management units or c m use that are designed to severely restrict personal 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 hours 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. and april of two thousand and ten we filed a lawsuit against the bureau of prisons the attorney general eric holder the

director of the bureau of prisons harlee and on 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 really need to argue about it in court and we also need to educate people educate other social justice activists who may be the next target for instance in the case of scotland youth in minneapolis minnesota the government attorney in that case actually argued before the court it's got to be if there's a known anarchist therefore is a domestic terrorist who is that and that directs is an anarchist therefore he is a terrorist and has set up evidence and they talked about literature that was found

in his whole books but i'm a cold about the haymarket mortars and so it's purely about beliefs and targeting really only through. it does resonate with me you know my grandparents were julius and ethel rosenberg and hearst they were executed in the one nine hundred fifty s. for conspiracy to commit espionage 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 and to seek 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.

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 with. we're going to steer it to the questions that were presented it's just constant talk he's made this for me. we will take. it but it is a. christian its decision to say 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 with the our international partners to ensure that these types of ideologies and crimes are not occur at their home. school source or a mistake to think that in this building just some months ago were under them time and they had since they think the largest gathering outside of the u.n. building and they hugged and they failed to deliver. a deal to stop climate change that the whole world was waiting for a moment. so we dressed up in my eyes the evening blown hired street cars bought some toy just on the internets blue lights we made some

forts number plates zero zero seven like james holmes. on the eve of the summits final day two activists with a group pretty decent around to a state dinner for over one hundred world leaders at the danish royal palace dressed in formal evening where the couple on the road banners reading politicians talk leaders the action came one day after two activists briefly interrupted the summer finery chanting slogans for climate justice. a book that. goes with governments and the business sector why engage in mass scale corruption mass scale environmental crimes and who can absolutely impunity. and get away with it by.

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 without trial that anyone greenpeace activists ever have in europe so it's really a change i know that i will be charged with something possibly could give me two or in principle could give me up to two years. this element of trying to show time. public protest trying to show. before local direct action this is a normal she world want from the u.k. where we see prevent the rest will be shifted to crude attempts of police infiltration the ecology movement definitely happens in the us the barely a country that you can point to where this is not at.

sears the still is identified by the police as a key thing a good ones do especially 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 villains and we think the police one way too far and that the law doesn't cover such a rests solely on their families that's architecture of its own people or is unable 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 or you get all or grand citizens their right to demonstrate make them the airplanes right on first condition that condition and that's how they do it that's how our basic rights are restricted to operate some day they'll disappear if we don't have found them.

it takes fifteen to twenty million years for the planet to recover from a major it's think shouldn't 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 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.

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