"Danger - Homegrown Terrorists"
Nov 15, 2001

MARINA DEL REY, CA--"We should take the recent terrorist attacks of radical environmentalists seriously," said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, "because they are motivated by ideas frighteningly similar to those of the Islamic terrorists."

The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) have claimed responsibility for at least six acts of sabotage since September 11, including the firebombing of several buildings.

Dr. Brook noted that for now there is a difference in the scale of destruction and the readiness to take human life between the actions of the ALF/ELF and the Islamic terrorists. "But remember," he warned, "that the Islamic fundamentalists began their terrorist campaign some years ago by first targeting our property. When we failed to oppose this, they escalated to attacks on our liberty and then our very lives.

"If we do not oppose the environmentalist terrorists now, we should expect a similar escalation in their violence. Why? Because their basic ideas are similar to those of the Islamic terrorists. Both worship the irrational and non-human--the one Allah; the other raw nature. Both oppose rights and freedom, and conspire in secret cabals to intimidate non-believers with violence and destruction. Both regard material production, human progress, happiness on earth as defilement--the one of Allah; the other of wilderness. Given these inhuman ideologies, in logic, massive destruction and death must result.

"There already has been loss of life among American loggers from environmental terrorists, and from the unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. Let us fight the environmental terrorists now, before more innocent lives are lost."

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