The EARTH NOKOMIS journal of Animoosh: September 2013

Friday, September 6, 2013

Earth Liberation Front Documentary

A rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat.'

As I write this I weep with sadness and outrage at what has been lost, I write and scream and very few give a fuck about the ways they consume their wonderful product.... EARTH-ANIMAL and the prime-natural FIRST Peoples, a 500 year old dreadful change into become the servant-slave to the corporate-governments of the world.

I see absolutely see nothing wrong with the destruction of civilized man and all it has built, base on the concept that it is "progress", a nice word for the idiots to believe they have the rite to live in comfort over every... Natural Being.

PROGRESS; equates to death destruction and subjection and then forcing every person into become a civilian, cooperator-contributor to the machine causing them to ignore the empathetical side of their nature.

The only solution left is to let the idiot consuming civilian eat them selves out house and home and then earth will recover on her own.... Without the egocentrism of civilized man!

IF IT CAN BURN IT WILL!

ONE SIMPLE WAY TO SAVE YOUR SOUL OR SPIRIT IF YOU LIKE...TO START WITH... IF YOU ARE TRULY CONCERNED.

Is to stop to consume Animal flesh, like Cows Pigs Hens and other so-called live stock and also the products that are produced like milk cheese eggs and other diary items, This will begin to lower you carbon foot print and lessen the unnecessary suffering of Factory Farmed Animals , and if you are incapable of do this, well its a pathetic situation for your self your family and the rest of EARTH and her innocent creatures!

and now

ABOUT THE FILM.

In December 2005, Daniel McGowan was arrested by Federal agents in a nationwide sweep of radical environmentalists involved with the Earth Liberation Front-- a group the
FBI has called America's "number one domestic terrorism threat."

For years, the ELF—operating in separate anonymous cells without any central leadership—had launched spectacular arsons against dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment: timber companies, SUV dealerships, wild horse slaughterhouses, and a $12 million ski lodge at Vail, Colorado.

With the arrest of Daniel and thirteen others, the government had cracked what was probably the largest ELF cell in America and brought down the group responsible for the very first ELF arsons in this country.

IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT tells the
remarkable story of the rise and fall of this ELF cell, by focusing on the transformation
and radicalization of one of its members.

Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thrilller, the film interweaves a verite chronicle of Daniel on house arrest as he faces life in prison, with a dramatic recounting of the events that led to his involvement with the group. And along the way it asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism, and the way we define terrorism.

Drawing from striking archival footage -- much of it never before seen -- and intimate interviews with ELF members, and with the prosecutor and detective who were chasing them, IF A TREE FALLS explores the tumultuous period from 1995 until early 2001 when environmentalists were clashing with timber companies and law enforcement, and the word "terrorism" had not yet been altered by 9/11.

Dishonest Identity

The Occidental created the allegory of Indians, and whatever tall tales they want to tell in their fictions are their business. But--concealed behind the illusion of Indians is the archetype of modern ethnic cleansing: the near extinction of more than forty percent of the world's peoples; and these heinous crimes obscured by the nearly complete extirpation of the Aboriginal Indigenous peoples from the annals of Western civilization. We are consigned to the terra incognita of their linguistic maps: there is not a single word in the English language which means "the Aboriginal Indigenous peoples of this Continent or any continent ." Neither the Euro-Americans know who the Aboriginal Indigenous people really are, and they will not say our real names. The Indians know that they have a dishonest identity, and that they are trying to steal what belongs to the Aboriginal Indigenous people. Inescapable evidence of our very real past and present existence is masked by the Indian mythology, reinterpreted to fit the Indian stereotype, distorted, destroyed, and denied. The Indians serve the convenience of Western Civilization: by deliberately confusing the Ahnishinahbæótjibway and other Aboriginal Indigenous people with their figment of Indians, the Euro-Americans hope to fill the void of exterminated peoples, deny the genocide of many millions of Aboriginal Indigenous peoples, evade the responsibility for the rape and plunder of our Continents, and justify their theft of the land.

your mind has been colonized

You belive you are free, yet your mind as been colonized…

In order for Europe to do what it has done to us—in fact, for Europe to become “Europe” at all—it first had to do the same thing to all of you. In other words, to become a colonizing culture, Europe had to first colonize itself. To the extent that this is true, I find it fair to say that if our struggle must be explicitly anticolonial…yours must be even more so. You have, after all, been colonized for far longer than we, and therefore much more completely. In fact, your colonization has by now been consolidated to such an extent that….you no longer even see yourselves as having been colonized. The result is that you’ve become self-colonizing, conditioned to be so self-identified with your own oppression that you’ve lost your ability to see it for what it is, much less to resist it in any coherent way.

Ward Churchill