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* Original message posted in: A_O_E-F.
* Crossposted in: CA_ENVIRONMENT.

On 31 Dec, 1994 21:48 at491@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Kim Goldberg) wrote:

 > In a previous posting, Patrick Martin (prm@borderlin.quake.com) 
 > writes: 
>> 
>> If you depend on natural resources for a livelihood and value your future,
>> you must read this book!
>> --- ---- ---- ---- -----
>> 
>> Walking on the Edge, by Barry Clausen
>> 

 > <snip>

>> The owner of North American Research, a private investigation
>> company in Montana, Barry Clausen was hired by timber, mining 
>> and ranching interests to investigate Earth First!.  He spent 
>> an entire year as an infiltrator and gained first-hand 
>> knowledge of the inner workings of this terrorist organization. 
>>  The linkage between earth First! and the other main line
>> environmental organizations is revealing and documented.
>> and corporate America?

 > <snip>

>> Walking on the Edge is published by:
>> 
>>                 The Washington Contract Loggers Association
>>                 P.O. Box 2168
>>                 Olympia, WA 98507-2168

 > Let's try telling the _whole_ truth, Patrick.  The book was
 > actually published by Alan Gottlieb's Merril Press/Free 
 > Enterprise Press, publishing arm for the Center for the
 > Defense of Free Enterprise - the command central for the
 > anti-environmental, industry-supported Wise Use Movement. 
 > The Center is run on a day-to-day basis by Wise Use movement
 > architect Ron Arnold, whose name should mean something to
 > readers of this group.  Merril Press (headquartered in
 > Liberty Park in Bellevue, WA, along with the Center), lent
 > the Washington Contract Loggers Assoc. one of its ISBN
 > numbers so the book could be brought out with a patina of of
 > independence  and impartiality - something it could not
 > enjoy if Gottlieb and Arnold's footprints were all over it.

If it was, you know more on the subject than I do...  I personally don't care
who commissioned the book, I think its great that an in-depth expose on Earth
First? is finally out...  We have been advising the timber industry and others
for a few years to do this sort of thing.

But in regards to your "truth" comment...  The advert I received does not
mention the CDFE - you got the whole text...

 > It is interesting that all parties concerned would work so
 > hard to conceal the fact that Clausen's book is in fact
 > nothing more than one in a series of so-called "battle
 > books" issued by the publishing arm of the Wise Use movement.

I'm sure the book will stand, or fall, as the case may be, on its own merits. 
If it was well written, well researched, it will do quite well.

I personally think you're jumping to conclusions regarding "...would work so
hard to concean..."

*I* find it interesting you seem to think that because a book was published or
commissioned possibly by Wise Use, it could disqualify it from being a valid
investigative report.  Does your way of thinking also say the books published
by Sierra Club and others of that ilk are merely "battle books" from the other
side?  No, I thought not...

Cheers,

Pat
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