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>EarthFirst! has acquired a reputation for being on te fringes of (if
>not actively involved in) 'violent' actions.  Some power line towers
>in Arizona and numerous cases of tree spiking in NW California come to
>mind in this connection.  
>

Alright, I agree to disagree as to what is violent. I do not advocate
or put down the means of individuals that take this type of action.

One incident of a mill worker getting hurt by a tree spike was
unfortunate. However, the person who placed that spike was not an
EF!er, but a land owner that owned land against a timber contract. The
mill worker has reported to management that the saw blades showed some
type of evidence of stress. Note: I'm not protecting the act of
spiking, just offering some food for though in this instance.

Power lines in AZ, Santa Cruz, and other places, yes frustration feeds
these acts.

>As there is a general trend that when you don't get your own way, to
>escalate the action (look at nearly all wars, rebellions, revolutions,
>and protest sequences), the suspicion that the EF folks were
>transporting an explosive device on their own is *extremely* tempting.
>The conclusion that this is so is nearly inescapable to anyone not an
>EF partisan to start with.  That there is no proof of this one way or
>the other does nothing to remove the logic of the situation (nor to
>make in unjustified).
>
>	--Hal
>-- 
>Hal Heydt                    |    "Boycott Time-Warner"
>Analyst, Pacific*Bell        |         --J. Danforth Quayle
>510-823-5447                 |    "... kill all the lawyers."
>whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM    |         --William Shakespeare

And so I agree, I only offer another side of the story. My motto:

Educate, Litigate, Demonstrate, Restorate.


Mike