Animal Rights Extremism / Eco-Extremism
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Arnold, RonEcoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature : The World of the Unabomber
In this extensively documented book, Arnold exposes an entire underground movement of violence to "save" nature. 336 pages, reissue edition, $16.95. (Free Enterprise Press; 1997; ISBN 0939571188)
Arnold, Ron & Alan GottliebTrashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism Is Wrecking America
Profiles of the top 60 environmental groups in America, where they get their money, and what they do with it. Shows how this popular movement is actually wrecking the natural resource base of the economy. Paperback, 670 pages, 2nd edition, $19.95. (Merril Press; 1998; ISBN 093957117X)
Burning Rage - The Growing Anger Within My Country
Burning Rage covers Clausen's personal experiences within the American judicial system, as well as his investigations into the activities of environmental / animal rights terrorists and extremists. Burning Rage is a behind the scenes look at the dark underworld of government cover-ups, the Unabomber, and radical environmentalism. Clausen is a 'human backhoe' - constantly digging for the truth. What he finds is not always pleasant, but sometimes the truth hurts. (Review by J. Zane Walley) $22.99 (incl. shipping and handling). (North American Research, PO Box 492141 Redding, CA 96049; 2001).
Henke, Janice Scott
ahenke@capital.net
Seal Wars! An American Viewpoint
An analysis of the protest movement's multi-media campaign to "save" the seals and the consequences on seal populations, the environment and the human communities involved. (Independent Publishers Group; ASIN: 091951961X; Out of print)
Herscovici, Alan
canfur@generation.net
Second Nature: The Animal Rights Controversy
Herscovici outlines a "second nature", a new relationship between man and his environment that can avert the environmental catastrophe the ecology movement has so rightly warned us of. (ISBN 0-88794-149-4)
Lewis, Martin W.
Green Delusions : An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism
A relentless academic critique of the different schools of "radical environmentalism." Paperback, $17.95. (Duke University Press; 1994; ISBN 0822314746)
Marquardt, Kathleen, Herbert M. Levine & Mark Larochelle
wewerlaw@ixi.net
Animalscam: The Beastly Abuse of Human Rights
The ecology movement's outer fringe, as both critics and sympathizers of green thinking will agree, lies with groups like Earth First! and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Believing humanity to be a scourge on the planet, they occasionally carry out their convictions with outright criminality, applauding, though perhaps not perpetrating, the arson, bombing, and maiming of scientists using animals for research. On the fuzzy side, they plead for animal rights on bus placards, in the media, and in primary schools. It was in a school, in fact, where Montana ranch mom Marquardt's kids learned from a PETA person that she was a murderer because she hunts for food. Marquardt culled all the news reports about PETA, organized her own group (Putting People First), and wrote this manifesto. It gleefully repeats the weirder public statements made by animal rightists, chastises their fund-raising tactics, and praises the medical benefits of animal experimentation. Especially in rural areas and in the West, where people interact frequently with animals, this energetic polemic is apt to receive nodding support and perhaps recruit new members for Marquardt's group. (Review by Gilbert Taylor for Booklist.) (Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ASIN: 0895264986; Out of print.)
Nichols, NickRules for Corporate Warriors: How to Fight and Survive Attack Group Shakedowns
This is a take-no-prisoners guide for besieged businesses, communities and citizens. It goes behind the scenes to expose how powerful, unaccountable pressure groups are waging war on free enterprise and common sense. It is a wake-up call and a survival manual, outlining what you need to do when the radical shakedown groups appear at your doors - and how to launch preemptive strikes. $25. (Merrill Press; 2001)
Oliver, Daniel T.Animal Rights: The Inhumane Crusade
Oliver argues that animal rights groups mislead donors by focusing on animal welfare in their solicitations, when their true agenda is elevating animal rights to the same level as human rights. The author, a research associate at the Capital Research Center, traces the "criminal actions and terrorism" of today's movement to the 1820s, when England became the first nation whose citizens formed an animal-welfare group. Americans followed suit, and opposition to using animals for scientific research eventually led to condemnation of hunting and trapping. Eventually, the animal-rights movement adopted a single goal: the abolition of all uses and ownership of animals. Expanding on the book's first edition, published in 1993, Oliver details the legal victories of groups that engage in tactics that he sees as destructive to medical research, livestock breeders, and fans of circuses and rodeos. Soft cover. 232 pages. Price: $5.00. (Capital Research Center, 1513 16th Street, N.W., Washington 20036-1480; (202) 483-6900; fax (202) 483-6902; crc@capitalresearch.org; www.capitalresearch.org; 1999; ISBN 0-936783-23-0)
Strand, Rod and Patti73314.263@CompuServe.com
The Hijacking of the Humane Movement: Animal Extremism
A graphic portrayal of the tactics and terror of the various front organizations involved in the animal rights movement. For those daily involved with animals through professional, scientific, sporting, livestock or other pursuits, the tactics used by these radicals to push their views and raise money are no longer dismissed lightly. These tactics include fire-bombing, burglary and attempted murder. They include the covert infiltration of organizations with differing views - redirecting their agendas and treasuries corporate-raider style in the process. Written by two of the most concerned people, the authors are noted authorities in the ranks of America's dog fanciers. (Doral Publishing - out of print; ISBN 0-944875-28-9)