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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of course, the terror visited upon environmental activists is disturbing enough on its own. Entire books have been written about the backlash, most notably David Helvarg's <span class="CenterBodyText">The War Against the Greens</span>, which documents harassment ranging from verbal abuse to the bombing of Judi Bari. The attacks haven't abated. Two years ago, Earth First! activist David Chain was killed while protesting in northern California when a tree cut by a Pacific Lumber Company logger landed on him. In late 1998, a member of <b>Julia "Butterfly" Hill's ground crew watched in horror as a gang of local vigilantes demolished her car and rolled it over a cliff.</b> In March 1999, police in Santa Fe, New Mexico, disarmed a ten-inch pipe bomb left in the Forest Guardians' mailbox.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Compared to such violent acts, is ecoterrorism really terrorism? ELF/ALF activists often defend their practices by scrambling to the high ground of "property, not people." So far, no one has ever died as a result of their actions. "If [ELF/ALF] claims a crime, you know we're going to abide by certain rules of engagement," says ALF activist Rod Coronado. "You're dealing with someone who's targeting property and isn't going to try to shoot you." But according to the FBI's definition of terrorism—"the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social goals"—Arnold and Clausen aren't far off the mark. When the ELF and ALF warn, "Leave the forests alone, and no one gets hurt" and follow up with firebombs, it's hard to dismiss it as monkeywrenching. Radical environmentalists sidestep the question by declaring the despoilers of wilderness the "real terrorists." To liberal activists, this should be a chillingly familiar argument—it's the same one used by those who shoot abortion doctors.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">===</font></div>