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January 02, 2003
Press Release: ELF TORCHES SUVS IN ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA For Immediate Release
ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA - The Earth Liberation Front has taken credit for its
first action of 2003 with the destruction of several SUVS at a
Pennsylvania auto dealership. A communique, received by the ELF Press
Office, Thursday, claimed an attack on SUVs at the Bob Ferrando Ford
Lincoln Mercury Dealership in Erie, Pennsylvania.
The Earth Liberation Front is an international underground organization
that uses direct action in the form of economic sabotage to stop the
destruction of the natural environment. In North America alone since
1997, the ELF has caused over $45 million in damages to entities who
profit from the destruction of life.
Communique follows:
At 5:30AM on January 1, 2003, the Earth Liberation Front attacked
several SUV's at Bob Ferrando Ford Lincoln Mercury in Erie,
Pennsylvania. At least four vehicles were entirely destroyed and several
others sustained heavy damage, costing an estimated $90,000.
Despite decades of popular environmental activism, the mainstream
environmental movement, which began arguably in the early
1960s, has failed in its attempts to bring about the protection needed
to stop the destruction of life on this planet. In many ways, it has
served only to accelerate this destruction. It's occasional "victories",
reforms or small concessions, have fostered hope in a means of social
change that has proven unable to produce tangible protection of life,
time after time.
By focusing it's energy on temporary "solutions", they have altogether
ignored the roots of the problem at hand. Western civilization, with
it's throw away conveniences, it's status symbols, and it's unfathomable
hoards of financial wealth, is unsustainable, and comes at a price. It's
pathological decadence, fueled by brutality and oceans of bloodshed, is
quickly devouring all life and undermining the very life support systems
we all need to survive. The quality of our air, water, and soil
continues to decrease as more and more life forms on the planet suffer
and die as a result. we are in the midst of a global environmental
crisis that adversely effects and directly threatens every human, every
animal, every plant, and every other life form on the face of the Earth.
There is absolutely no excuse for any one of us, out of greed, to
knowingly allow this to continue. There is a direct relationship
between our irresponsible over-consumption and lust for luxury products,
and the poverty and destruction of other people and the Natural world.
By refusing to acknowledge this simple fact, supporting this paradigm
with our excessive lifestyles, and failing to offer direct resistance,
we make ourselves accomplices in the greatest crime ever committed.
Time is running out - change must come, or eventually all will be lost.
A belief in state sanctioned legal means of social change is a sign of
faith in the legal system of that same state. We have absolutely no
faith in the legal system of the state when it comes to protecting life,
as it has repeatedly shown itself to care far more for the protection of
commerce and profits than for its people and the natural environment.
Clearly, the state itself causes and profits from many of the various
atrocities against life that we must struggle against. To place faith in
that same state as though it will act in the interests of justice and
life is utter foolishness and a grave mistake.
Therefore, the E.L.F. will continue to fight to remove the profit motive
from the killing of the natural environment, and to draw public
attention to that which is deliberately concealed from them by the
forces that control our lives and destroy our home.
We urge our sisters and brothers - let us strive to become the
revolutionary force we've always spoken of being, and begin to
take the control of our lives out of the hands of those who would
destroy us. NO COMPROMISE.
Happy New Year Bob Ferrando!
E.L.F.
The North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office is a legal,
above-ground news service dedicated to exposing the political and social
motives behind the covert direct actions of the underground Earth
Liberation Front. The North American Earth Liberation Front Press Office
receives anonymous communiques from the ELF and distributes the message
to the media and public.
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