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Article: Radical enviros are crossing the line.(Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- February 18, 2002
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"Radical environmentalists appear to have been inspired by the [Sept. 11, 2001] terrorists, stepping up the domestic terrorist activities in America," according to James M. Taylor in an article for Environment & Climate News. On Sept. 18, 2001, a week after the attacks, a Ronald McDonald House for families in need was vandalized and covered with anti-fast-food graffiti, as well as slogans for the ELF (Earth Liberation Front) and the ALF (Animal Liberation Front).
Following that incident, ecoterrorists set fire to a primate-research facility in New Mexico, raided an Iowa mink farm twice and firebombed a federal corral for wild ...