Frontline Information Service - Update 9/03/02
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E.L.F. attacks U.S. Forest Service research facility
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September 3, 2002
The ELF Press Office received the following communique September 01,
2002:


The Earth Liberation Front is claiming responsibility for the
8/11/02 arson attack on the United States Forest Service Northeast
Research Station in Irvine, Pennsylvania.


The laboratory was set ablaze during the early morning hours,
causing over $700,000 damage, and destroying part of 70 years worth
of research. This lesson in "prescribed fire" was a natural,
necessary response to the threats posed to life in the Allegheny
Forest by proposed timber sales, oil drilling, and greed driven
manipulation of Nature.


This facility was strategically targeted, and if rebuilt, will be
targeted again for complete destruction. Furthermore, all other U.S.
Forest Service administration and research facilities, as well as
all DCNR buildings nationwide should now be considered likely
targets.


These agencies continue to ignore and mislead the public, at the
bidding of their corporate masters, leaving us with no alternative
to underground direct action. Their blatant disregard for the
sanctity of life and its perfect Natural balance, indifference to
strong public opposition, and the irrevocable acts of extreme
violence they perpetrate against the Earth daily are all
inexcusable, and will not be tolerated. If they persist in their
crimes against life, they will be met with maximum retaliation.


In pursuance of justice, freedom, and equal consideration for all
innocent life across the board, segments of this global
revolutionary movement are no longer limiting their revolutionary
potential by adhering to a flawed, inconsistant "non-violent"
ideology. While innocent life will never be harmed in any action we
undertake, where it is necessary, we will no longer hesitate to pick
up the gun to implement justice, and provide the needed protection
for our planet that decades of legal battles, pleading, protest, and
economic sabotage have failed so drastically to achieve.


The diverse efforts of this revolutionary force cannot be contained,
and will only continue to intensify as we are brought face to face
with the oppressor in inevitable, violent confrontation. We will
stand up and fight for our lives against this iniquitous
civilization until its reign of TERROR is forced to an end - by any
means necessary.


In defense of all life,


-Pacific E.L.F.