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Dear Mr McKibben,

Sadly, in response to the new national (limited) carbon cap legislation, the coal industry has initiated a media campain complete with their own financed and designed public demonstrations.

How is it possible to address the commercial will of the old-school energy industry?

S.H.

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Have we yet named that the attention given to ELF and general scapegoating of environmental activism is a reflection of the current cultural leadership paradigm - conservative and corporate based. Individuals who have a vested interest in shifting this cultural paradigm will and are branded and punished. I do not envy the role of your FBI representative but she could offer a more intellegent and reality based perspective of this kind of government initiated propoganda. Anyone with any sensitivity can see the difference between an organization whose purpose is based on the hatred of another group (KKK, radical fundamentalists - yes abortion clinic bombers) and those who are fully invested in making cultural changes that will heal and help not just our communities but our whole planet. Environmetnal degradation is a much more serious issue than what is legal and what is not. If our children have to fight for clean air and water because unconsious individuals with money or political power in our generation continue to pollute the earth how do you justify inaction? ELF is trying to shift the dangerous cultural paradigm one could easily argue is much more devistating to humans and the environment than any single act of arson. Have we completely forgotten the civil rights movement - "by any means necessary". Legal or not the ELF is doing the work we all have to do in some way sooner or later. Perhaps we should be grateful. To define activism as terrorism is a very nasty lie.

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