Interview with Marco Rossi of the Olympia Civil Liberties Resource about the "Green Scare" and the government crackdown on the ELF and ALF. The Olympia Civil Liberties Resource is an organization working to defend the civil liberties of all citi
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For More Info about the Green scare: For the Olympia Civil Liberties Resource: www.olycivlib.org other good sites are: www.portland.indymedia.org ; www.greenscare.org ; www.ecoprisoners.org ; www.nocompromise.org
On June 18th 2006, George Cadman, (host of "Peace Talks" on Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 fm), interviewed Marco Rossi of the Olympia Civil Liberties Resource about the "Green Scare" and the government crackdown on the ELF and ALF. The Olympia Civil Liberties Resource is an organization working to defend the civil liberties of all citizens, particularly activists exercising their constitutional rights. They seek to educate the public regarding current threats to civil liberties, and to act as a general resource for activists. The FBI is engaged in an orchestrated campaign of issuing subpoenas to environmental activists, conducting large scale roundups of activists, and levying unprecedented penalties for property destruction. In 2004, the federal government launched Operation Backfire, a wide-scale investigation of environmental and animal rights activists. It used paid informants and conducted warrantless spying on a range of organizations. Since then, numerous individuals around the country have been arrested and charged with arson, destruction of property and conspiracy in the government's attempts to target the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). No one was injured in any of these events, yet the defendants are being called â