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</div><div></div><div>The Wise Use perspective has been strongly promoted in the UK by the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Living_Marxism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Living Marxism (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Living Marxism</a> (LM) network, which like Lyndon Larouche back-flipped from extreme left to extreme right. Wise Users were significant contributors to the LM-connected Channel 4 TV series Against Nature , in which environmentalists were portrayed as Nazis and the bringers of death and suffering to the Third World.<a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a> was also among the contributors to LM magazine, penning an article in the March, 1998 issue. According to the article, 'the anti-technology Unabomber who terrorised the USA for two decades, killing 3 and injuring 29 others' took his cue from the anti-technology philosophy of environmentalism which was operating like a self-consuming sickness at the heart of American society. According to the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=LM&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LM (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">LM</a> archive: '<a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>, author of "Ecoterror: The violent agenda to save Nature", suggests that society today suffers from a "Unabomber syndrome" - it "seems willing to entertain the notion of abolishing civilisation"...'. A picture caption for Arnold's article read, 'For Unabomber Ted Kaczynski environmentalism was the theory and assassination the practice'.Thanks to Wise Use, the PR tactic of mobilizing independent-seeming 'third parties' to advocate corporate causes gained a new momentum and a far more aggressive edge. The influence of Arnold and CDFE on the GM debate is all too apparent - from the aggressive use of PR tactics that include the use of fake citizens, fake organisations and fake public protest, to the designation of critics of GM as 'terrorists' and 'eco-imperialists'.The fake <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Center_for_Food_and_Agricultural_Research&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Food and Agricultural Research (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Food and Agricultural Research</a> (CFFAR), for instance, sought to portray mainstream environmental organisations as engaging in, or linked to, violence and 'terrorism' - a message reinforced through the multiple internet postings of the e-mail fronts <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Andura_Smetacek&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Andura Smetacek (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Andura Smetacek</a> and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Mary_Murphy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Murphy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mary Murphy</a>. Smetacek, Murphy and CFFAR have all been traced back to <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Monsanto" title="Monsanto" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Monsanto</a> and its Internet PR company <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Bivings_Group&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bivings Group (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bivings Group</a>.CFFAR and Smetacek then used the concerns generated by their smears against organisations like Greenpeace to encourage scientists and others to lobby those organisations' funders to stop their financial backing. It is a tactic that comes straight out of the CDFE 'handbook'. To quote Arnold, 'We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members.' (New York Times, Dec 19, 1991, emphasis added)PR firm <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a> set up a website called StopEcoViolence - very much along the lines of CFFAR's vandalwatch.org - which claimed to be the grassroots' initiative of a citizens' group. On its links page it lists CFFAR and Vandalwatch.org, as well as the Internet front sites of PR firm <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Berman%26_Co&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berman & Co (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Berman</a><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Berman%26_Co&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berman & Co (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> & Co</a>. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=ActivistCash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ActivistCash (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">ActivistCash</a> and the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center for Consumer Freedom (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Consumer Freedom</a>. The page also has links to CDFE, which it describes as 'a non-partisan education and research organization', and to the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Competitive_Enterprise_Institute" title="Competitive Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a> (CEI). In March 2002 <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a> linked up with CEI to sponsor a conference for journalists and corporate executives on 'eco-extremism'. (You too might be a terrorist. The war on the greens)Like <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Nichols-Dezenhall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nichols-Dezenhall (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a>, many of those at the forefront of attacks on critics of GM make use of CDFE's rhetoric. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrick Moore (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, for instance, talks of environmentalists as 'ultraleftists and extremists' who 'use Gestapo tactics'. Moore claims issues like the GM debate are being influenced by 'pagan beliefs and junk science'. This directly echoes <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Ron_Arnold&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Arnold (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>'s attacks on environmentalists as 'eco-fascists' and communists, as well as his call for a 'holy war against the new pagans who worship trees and sacrifice people'.Such claims have been picked up and repeated by GM sympathetic scientists. For instance, Prof <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Joe_Perry&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joe Perry (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background: none;">Joe Perry</a>, the chief statistician on the UK government's GM farm-scale evaluations, repeated Moore's claims about 'pagan beliefs' in a lecture on GM given as part of a series by and for Christians interested in science. He also quoted a claim of Moore's that the agendas of most environmentalists were principally about 'class warfare'. He also drew on Moore in a letter to The Guardian, in which he said Moore had 'pointed to the Trotskyists and anti-capitalists who ditched socialism for the environmentalist bandwagon when the iron curtain fell, and became influential within Greenpeace and similar pressure groups.' (see also responses to Perry)In May 2003, speaking at the Natural History Museum in London, the world renowned scientist <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Peter_Raven&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Peter Raven (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Peter Raven</a> also attacked Greenpeace over its opposition to GMOs, telling his audience, 'Last month, the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Congress_of_Racial_Equality&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Congress of Racial Equality (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Congress of Racial Equality</a> (CORE), one of America's most venerable and respected civil rights groups, confronted Greenpeace at a public event and accused it of "eco-manslaughter" through its support of international policies limiting development and the expansion of technology to the developing world's poor'. (for the truth about CORE)The British pro-GM lobby group <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Sense_About_Science&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sense About Science (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sense About Science</a>, whose director and assistant director are both part of the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=LM&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="LM (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">LM</a> network, has also adopted the Wise Use tactic of portraying critics of GM as violent extremists. Its Chairman, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Dick_Taverne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dick Taverne (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); outline: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Lord Taverne</a> claimed in an article in The Times that farmers and researchers were being intimidated by 'anti-GM campaigners' adopting 'the tactics of animal welfare terrorists'. The headline was, When crops burn, the truth goes up in smoke. Taverne admitted that environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth 'may condemn violence', but concluded, none the less, 'The anti-GM campaign has become a crusade. Its champions... have become eco-fundamentalists, followers of a new kind of religion... when campaigns become crusades, crusaders are more likely to turn to violence.'</div><div>==</div>