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</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; line-height: 24.64px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cdfe.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE)</a> has been at the very heart of the backlash against the environmental movement. Although it has not had an especial focus on the GM debate, the aggressive PR tactics that CDFE has promoted, as a means of attacking and seeking to discredit those raising environmental concerns, have had an enormous influence.</font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2><span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"> [<a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#LaRouche_Connections" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">LaRouche Connections</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Militia_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Militia links</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#CORE_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">CORE links</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Nichols-Dezenhall" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Nichols-Dezenhall</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Key_quotes" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Key quotes</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Key_deeds" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Key deeds</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Funding" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Funding</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Key_people" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Key people</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#Sources" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Sources</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="History"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the late 1980's, CDFE has been at the center of the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Wise_Use_Movement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wise Use Movement (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Wise Use Movement</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Alan_Gottlieb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alan Gottlieb (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Alan Gottlieb</a>, a former tax felon,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup> founded CDFE in 1974 along with two gun groups: Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the Second Amendment Foundation. Other Gottlieb ventures include the Free Enterprise Press (book publisher), American Press Syndicate, and American Broadcasting Network. CDFE's Free Enterprise Press has published several books by CDFE executive vice president Ron Arnold, including Ecology Wars (1987) which includes a chapter "Defeating Environmentalism" and Ecoterror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature, the World of the Unabomber (1997).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 1984 Gottlieb was joined by the man who became CDFE's Executive Vice President, <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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ron Arnold</a>. Arnold has also been a consultant for <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Sourcewatch:Dow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sourcewatch:Dow (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dow</a> Chemical, as well as Head of the Washington State chapter of the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=American_Freedom_Coalition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Freedom Coalition (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">American Freedom Coalition</a>, the political arm of the Rev. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Sun_Myung_Moon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sun Myung Moon (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sun Myung Moon</a>'s <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Unification_Church&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Unification Church (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Unification Church</a> (1989-91)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Alan Gottlieb also connects to the American Freedom Coalition which has also shared offices with CDFE. (</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.clearproject.org/reports_cdfe.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%;">Profile: Ron Arnold</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/by_clear/Fifty_VI.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%;">The Wise Use Movement</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">/</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sweetliberty.org/mof.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%;">Merchant of Fear</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ron Arnold</a> is considered originator of the term "Wise Use," and Arnold has credited himself with starting the back-lash campaign against environmentalists. In 1991 Arnold told the New York Times:</font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We [CDFE] created a sector of public opinion that didn't use to exist. ... No one was aware that environmentalism was a problem until we came along.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arnold, a former Dow Chemical consultant, was also head of Washington State chapter of the American Freedom Coalition, the political arm of the Rev. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Sun_Myung_Moon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sun Myung Moon (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Sun Myung Moon</a>'s <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Unification_Church&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Unification Church (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Unification Church</a>from 1989-91 (Western States Center fact sheet).</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE's previous main focus had been opposing gun controls, with Gottlieb establishing two pro-gun foundations. According to the New York Times, Gottlieb shifted the Center's focus when he realized the fundraising potential of opposing environmentalism:</font></p><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-right: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For conservative fundraisers like Mr. Gottlieb, the enemies were Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the threat of gun control. But now Mr. Gottlieb has found a better target. "For us" said Mr. Gottlieb... "the environmental movement has become the perfect bogeyman."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE organized the first Multiple Use Strategy Conference (now Wise Use Leadership Conference) in Reno, NV in 1988 which led to the twenty-five point "Wise Use Agenda." Included in the agenda was "Immediate wise development of the petroleum resources of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge" and "Passage of the Global Warming Prevention Act to convert in a systematic manner all decaying and oxygen using forest growth on the National Forests into young stands of oxygen producing, carbon dioxide-absorbing trees to help ameliorate the rate of global warming." CDFE executive vice president Ron Arnold has since been quoted saying "There isn't any such thing" as global warming (CLEAR fact sheet).</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The CDFE website features categories such as "EPA-probe" and "co-imperialism" and the latest headlines from the bastion of right-wing journalism, Fox News. CDFE runs two other websites: Undue Influence - "racking the environmental movement, money, power, and harm" (</span><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.undueinfluence.com/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%;">http://www.undueinfluence.com/</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), and the anti-Rainforest Action Network site "</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">RANamuck</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" where they talk about Rainforest Action Network's ties to other radical groups and "their anti-capitalist ideology, and their lawless and dangerous activities." Among other things, the site features a link to send email to the Turner Foundation asking it to stop funding RAN.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Known funders have included the Coors Foundation, Georgia Pacific, Louisiana-Pacific, MacMillan Bloedel, Pacific Lumber, ExxonMobil Education Foundation, DuPont, Agricultural Products Division, Boise Cascade, Seneca Sawmills, Sun Studs, Burkland Lumber and the F.M. Kirby Foundation.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (From </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background-image: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent), url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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"); background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%, 100% 50%;">http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span></font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="LaRouche_Connections"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LaRouche Connections</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A year before Arnold joined CDFE, he had written a report for <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Reason&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reason (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Reason</a> magazine on EcoTerrorism. <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Lyndon_LaRouche&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lyndon LaRouche (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Lyndon LaRouche</a>, the American former-Marxist leader turned far right anti-semite, had been one of the first people to use the term 'terrorist' in relation to environmentalists. As early as 1977 LaRouche's supporters had tried to halt a peaceful demonstration against a nuclear power plant in New Hampshire by contacting the police and claiming that acts of violence were being planned. A subsequent FBI memorandum stated the information had been 'fabricated' by LaRouchians. (LaRouche and Wise Use)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">LaRouche's tactic of creating friction with environmentalists by painting them as violent and dangerous, as well as his terrorist terminology, were picked up by Arnold, who has been called the 'Father of the Wise Use Movement'. That movement was launched in 1988 by Gottlieb and Arnold. The Wise Use Agenda was published by CDFE the following year. Among the organisations attending or supporting the 1988 conference that set the Agenda were DuPont, Exxon, the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=National_Rifle_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Rifle Association (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">National Rifle Association</a>, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Consumer_Alert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Consumer Alert (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Consumer Alert</a> and the Moonie-linked <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=American_Freedom_Coalition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Freedom Coalition (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">American Freedom Coalition</a>. CDFE's advisors have included <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Richard_Ichord&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Ichord (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Richard Ichord</a> of the <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=American_Freedom_Coalition&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="American Freedom Coalition (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">American Freedom Coalition</a>, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Keating&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Barbara Keating (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Barbara Keating</a> of Consumer Alert, and U.S. Vice President <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Dick Cheney</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The aim of Wise Use was to counter the environmental movement with a broad-ranging, loose-knit coalition of interest groups, including industry-funded front groups and 'grassroots groups', often organised by PR consultants on behalf of corporations or trade associations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gottlieb, who describes himself as 'the premiere anti-communist, free-enterprise, laissez-faire capitalist' and who has spent time in prison for tax-evasion, has had a long history of direct mail fundraising. Gottlieb and his wife own Merril Mail Marketing, a direct mail company. Gottlieb has claimed that CDFE mails more than 20 million items a year (The Wise Use Movement). Fear, hate, and revenge 'are the oldest tricks in the direct mail handbook', according to Arnold, who has also said, 'Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality.' (Profile: <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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>/Anti-environmentalism)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Gottlieb and Arnold paint environmentalists as self-serving communists or Nazis who seek to broaden the power of big government, impose restraints on individual liberty, and destroy civilization. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arnold, who has described himself as the 'Darth Vader for the capitalist revolution', has openly stated that his aim is 'to destroy the environmental movement'. He told the Boston Globe, 'We are sick to death of environmentalism and so we will destroy it. We will not allow our right to own property and use nature's resources for the benefit of mankind to be stripped from us by a bunch of eco-fascists.' (Boston Globe , January 13, 1992) 'We're mad as hell. We're dead serious. We're going to destroy them,' </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">he told the Portland Oregonian.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an interview with CNN he stated that part of his purpose was to 'kill the bastards' . In the same interview, when asked what message he wished to be seen as conveying, he said, 'People in industry, I'm going to do my best for you. Environmentalists, I'm coming to get you.' (Interview, CNN, May 30, 1993)</font></p><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Militia_links"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Militia links</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are links between the Wise Use movement and some of America's right-wing militias. In some cases the scapegoating and demonising of environmentalists appears to have contributed to their becoming the targets of physical assults, arson and even bomb attacks. (Green Backlash, Andrew Rowell, 1996)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ron Arnold</a> has contributed to and written around a dozen or more books including At the Eye of the Storm: <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=James_Watt&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="James Watt (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">James Watt</a> and the Environmentalists -the authorized biography of <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Ronald Reagan</a>'s Secretary of the Interior. Watt once commented, 'If the troubles from environmentalists cannot be solved in the jury box or at the ballot box, perhaps the cartridge box should be used'.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of Arnold's books are published by CDFE's publishing arm, The Free Enterprise Press, which works in tandem with Gottlieb's for-profit Merril Press. The Free Enterprise Press was founded by Arnold in 1987 'to create an outlet for important free enterprise authors' - authors like Paul Driessen. Driessen is a Senior Fellow at CDFE as well as principal of <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Global-Comm_Partners&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Global-Comm Partners (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Global-Comm Partners</a>, a Northern Virginia public relations firm specializing in environmental public policy issues. He is also a senior fellow for the far right <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Atlas_Economic_Research_Foundation" title="Atlas Economic Research Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Atlas Economic Research Foundation</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Driessen's book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death is published by the CDFE's Free Enterprise Press. According to a review on the CDFE's website by <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Paul_Caruba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Caruba (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Paul Caruba</a>, 'an adjunct scholar of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise', the book helps the reader 'to understand why the environmental movement is engaged in the most appalling example of genocide the world has ever known!' Among the heinous crimes the book lays at the door of the movement is 'the hunger and suffering of millions of the world's poor who are denied the benefits of genetically engineered food'. According to the reviewer, the book takes our attention from 'the war a relative handful of fanatical Islamists are waging on the world' to 'the larger war being waged' by the environmental movement against 'much of the world's population'. (Killing Millions to "Save" the Earth)</font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="CORE_links"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CORE links</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Driessen's book has an introduction by <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Niger_Innis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Niger Innis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Niger Innis</a> of 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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Congress of Racial Equality</a> (CORE), saying it is long overdue. According to Innis, 'The time has come to hold these radicals to civilized standards of behavior, end the tolerance for their lethal policies, and demand that they be held accountable for their excesses, and the poverty, disease and death they have perpetrated on the poor and powerless. Eco-Imperialism is an excellent start... The world's destitute masses will love it.'</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The book's editorial reviews, include one from Prof <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=CS_Prakash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CS Prakash (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">CS Prakash</a>, who enthuses, 'Great book!' This despite the fact that Driessen, in order to give 'environmentalists' the necessary reach and influence for the crimes he lays at their door, has to subsume into their number the World Health Organisation and even USAID. Ironically, Prakash has been an adviser to USAID.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other supportive comments for Driessen's book have come from <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Dennis_Avery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dennis Avery (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Dennis Avery</a>, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Thomas_R.DeGregori&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Thomas R. DeGregori (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Thomas R. DeGregori</a> and <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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, who says, 'This book is the first one I've seen that tells the truth and lays it on the line'.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In late January 2004 Driessen helped CORE to organise a 'Teach-In' in New York entitled, 'Eco-Imperialism: The global green movement's war on the developing world's poor'. He was also one of the contributors along with <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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=CS_Prakash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CS Prakash (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">CS Prakash</a>, and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Roger_Bate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roger Bate (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Roger Bate</a>. In a press release CORE's <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Niger_Innis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Niger Innis (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Niger Innis</a>, another contributor, said that after the Teach-In 'eco-imperialism' would be a household word, adding, 'We intend to stop this callous eco-manslaughter'.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On February 4, 2004 Driessen appeared on Capital Hill before the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources. His affiliation was given as Director, Economic Human Rights Project. The latter was described as 'an initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality. Reflecting its belief that "Economic rights are human rights" the growing coalition is dedicated to correcting prevalent environmental myths and misguided policies that help perpetuate poverty, misery, disease and early death in developing countries."'</font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Nichols-Dezenhall"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nichols-Dezenhall</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Driessen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Paul Driessen</a> also served as editor of another book published by CDFE's Free Enterprise Press, Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to fight and survive attack group shakedowns, by Nick Nichols, Chairman & CEO of 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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Nichols-Dezenhall</a>. Nichols approach to PR is that of CDFE. In a leaked presentation to pork-producers he quoted Al Capone, 'You can get more with a smile, a kind word and a gun than with a smile and a kind word', and <a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/George_Carlin" title="George Carlin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George Carlin</a>, 'If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten!' Nicholls advised the pork-producers they should, 'Fight like guerillas' and 'Take no prisoners'.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With the assistance of corporations, PR firms and various right-wing groups, Wise Use tactics and rhetoric have spread around the globe. As early as 1986, the chemical industry sponsored a tour of New Zealand by <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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ron Arnold</a>. Wise Use groups have sprung up in Australia sporting bumper stickers such as, 'Fertilize the forest, kill a greenie!'</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ron Arnold</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 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 </span><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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); 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><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> archive: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">'<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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ron Arnold</a>, author of "Ecoterror: The violent agenda to save Nature"</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, 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'.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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'.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Bivings Group</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Berman & 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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); 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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); 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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); 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'.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); 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)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">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.'</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
12500 NE 10th Place.Liberty Park.Bellevue, WA 98005 Phone: 425-455-5038 Fax: 425-451-3959</font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Key_quotes"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key quotes</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We are sick to death of environmentalism and so we will destroy it. We will not allow our right to own property and use nature's resources for the benefit of mankind to be stripped from us by a bunch of eco-facists."--Ron Arnold, "New, militant antienvironmentalists fight to return nature to a back seat." Boston Globe, January 13, 1992</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality." -- Ron Arnold, Outside Magazine, December 1991</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members." --Ron Arnold, "Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism." The New York Times, December 19, 1991.</font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Key_deeds"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key deeds</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 June, 2002</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Fellow Paul Driessen signed a letter to President Bush, asking him to withdraw the "Climate Action Report 2002" and demand that it be rewritten based on "sound science". The letter also recommends that Bush "dismiss or re-assign all administration employees who are not pursuing your agenda, just as you have done in several similar instances." Source: Joint Letter To President Bush On The EPA's Climate Action Report 6/7/02</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 February, <b>2004</b></font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Paul Driessen, CDFE Senior Fellow, testified before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources, along with representatives of the Congress of Racial Equality</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. Driessen argued that environmentalists' opposition to fossil fuels were contributing to poverty in third world countries. Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</span></font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9 June, 1998</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ron Arnold, who has being trying to make coterrorist and environmentalist synonymous since the mid1990s, testified before a congressional committee in 1998 on the subject of "eco-terrorism.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">" He defined "eco-terror" explicitly to include civil disobedience.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> In his testimony, Arnold argued: "For the past five years, our members have routinely contacted our headquarters to report crimes committed against them of a type we've come to call</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> eco-terrorism, that is a crime committed to save nature</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. These crimes generally take the form of equipment vandalism, but may include package bombs, blockades using physical force to obstruct workers from going where they have a right to go, and invasions of private or government offices to commit the crime of civil disobedience" Source: House Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, June 9, 1998</span></font></p><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Funding"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funding</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise has received $230,000 from <a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=ExxonMobil&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ExxonMobil (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">ExxonMobil</a> since 1998.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2003 $40,000 ExxonMobil Foundation Global Climate Change Issues Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004 $130000 ExxonMobil Foundation Global Climate Change Issues Source: Exxon Giving Report 2004</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2005 $60,000 ExxonMobil Foundation Source: ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving)</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">late 80s, early 90s? $unknown Exxon Corporation Source: Greenpeace Guide</font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Key_people"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key people</font></span></h2><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><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; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Ron Arnold</a> Executive Vice President</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Paul_Driessen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Driessen (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Paul Driessen</a> Senior Fellow</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Alan_M.Gottlieb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alan M. Gottlieb (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan M. Gottlieb</font></a></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Robert_J.Bidinotto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert J. Bidinotto (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Robert J. Bidinotto</a> Senior Fellow</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Jon_Reisman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jon Reisman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Jon Reisman</a> Senior Scholar</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Diana_White&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Diana White (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Diana White</a> Horse Capp Adjunct Fellow</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII=");"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alan Caruba (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alan Caruba</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Adjunct Scholar</span></font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Merrill_R.Jacobs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Merrill R. Jacobs (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Merrill R. Jacobs</a> Secretary, Board of Directors</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX///8AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw/wLCAgQEAGpIDyT0IVcsAAAAASUVORK5CYII="); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/w/index.php?title=Julianne_Versnel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julianne Versnel (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background: none;">Julianne Versnel</a> Treasurer, Board of Directors</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Source: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04</font></p><h2 style="color: black; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sources"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sources</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Greenpeace Guide</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/files/corporate/giving_report.pdf</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise website 4/04 <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.cdfe.org/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">http://www.cdfe.org</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joint Letter To President Bush On The EPA's Climate Action Report 6/7/02 <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.cei.org/gencon/027,03051.cfm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">http://www.cei.org/gencon/027,03051.cfm</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism." The New York Times, December 19, 1991.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"New, militant antienvironmentalists fight to return nature to a back seat." Boston Globe, January 13, 1992 Boston Globe interview</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Outside Magazine, December 1991</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">House Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, June 9, 1998 ecoterror hearings</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon Giving Report 2004 Exxon's published report on annual giving <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/files/corporate/giving04_publicpolicy.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">http://www.exxonmobil.com/corporate/files/corporate/giving04_publicpolicy.pdf</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving) XOM Foundation and Corporation donations in 2005 to worldwide organizations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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For example, see "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vpc.org/studies/reliefone.htm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Putting Guns Back Into Criminals' Hands</a>", Violence Policy Center website, accessed March 25 2009</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important; -webkit-user-select: none;">Jump up</span>↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); padding-right: 13px; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) 100% 50% no-repeat, url("data:image/svg+xml;base64,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") 100% 50%;">Factsheet: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</a>", exxonsecrets.org, accessed March 25 2009</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="-webkit-user-select: none;"><a href="https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration: none; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert James Bidinotto</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...is an award-winning writer, editor, and lecturer who reports on cultural and political issues from the philosophic perspective of principled individualism. During the past fifteen years he has established a reputation as one of the leading opponents and critics of environmentalism.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of July 2005 Robert became editor of The New Individualist, the monthly magazine of The Atlas Society, a philosophic research and advocacy organization. In the previous year, he was editor of Organization Trends and Foundation Watch, monthly publications of the<b> Capital Research Center </b>-- a private watchdog group that monitors the activities of nonprofit advocacy organizations and foundations. Robert also serves as a senior fellow of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A former Staff Writer for Reader's Digest, he authored high-profile investigative pieces on environmental issues, crime, and other public controversies. His many articles, essays, columns, book and film reviews also have appeared in Success, Writer's Digest, The Boston Herald, The American Spectator, City Journal, The Freeman,Reason and other journals.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Bidinotto's writings on environmental issues include <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">investigative articles for Reader's Digest on global warming and the 1989 Alar scare,</span> as well as extensive research on the ozone depletion issue. His Alar article was singled out for editorial praise by Barron's business weekly, and by Priorities, the journal of the American Council on Science and Health. He is also author of a widely praised monograph, The Green Machine, that critically examines the environmentalist philosophy and movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A nationally-recognized expert on crime, Robert is perhaps best known for his article "Getting Away With Murder" in the July 1988 Reader's Digest. That investigative piece stirred a national controversy about crime and prison furlough programs during the 1988 presidential election campaign, and is widely credited with having affected the outcome of the election. He is editor of Criminal Justice? The Legal System Vs. Individual Responsibility, which won enthusiastic acclaim from law enforcement professionals throughout the nation, and author of Freed to Kill, a compendium of horror stories illustrating the failings of the justice system.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As editor of The New Individualist, Robert is a Gold Winner of Folio's prestigious 2007 "Eddie" Award for editorial excellence, for an article he wrote for the magazine's March 2007 issue. He was has also been awarded the Free Press Association's Mencken Award for "Best Feature Story," was named a 1989 National Magazine Award finalist for "Best Magazine Article of the Year in the Public Interest Category" by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and has received awards and honors from the National Victim Center and other victim rights organizations for his outspoken public advocacy on behalf of crime victims.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A popular speaker, Robert Bidinotto has appeared as a guest on many major radio and television talk shows, including CBS radio's "Crosstalk," CNN's "Sonya Live," "Geraldo," "The<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Rush Limbaugh Show,</span>" "The Bob Grant Show," CNBC's "Rivera Live" and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">With his wife and their stridently individualistic cat, Luna, Robert makes his home on the Chesapeake Bay, where he avidly enjoys the sights and sounds of nature. "The natural world," he says, "is an inspiring setting and inexhaustible resource for the creative work of human beings."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">P. O. Box 449</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Caroga Lake, NY 12032-0449</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(518) 835-4103</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">E-mail: allianceam@aol.com</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.allianceforamerica.org</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Personnel - Alliance for America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Vincent, Libby, MT, President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harry McIntosh, Caroga Lake , NY, Administrative director,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patricia A. Bradburn, Chairman, 1999 Fly-In</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Fulton Lewis, Reedville, VA, newsletter editor</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Vincent, President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harry McIntosh, Administrative director</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Membership - Alliance for America</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Membership is comprised of individuals and member organizations from the wise use and property rights movement throughout the country.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finances - Alliance for America Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Income: $25,110 (1997)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Assets: $46,915 (1997)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Files an IRS 990 or 990EZ</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The timber industry from the Northwest primarily organized the first “Fly-In-For-Freedom” in Washington, DC, in 1991.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nearly all of the national wise-use and private property rights organizations are participants in the Alliance for America, which is an umbrella organization. Industry has provided a significant part of the funding for the annual conventions, and affected the selection of agendas. There has been a constant tension between the wise use and industry groups, on the one hand, which have established lobbying systems which are willing to compromise against on endangered species and property rights in general, and the grassroots property rights organizations, primarily in the East, on the other hand.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adirondack property rights activists have participated from the first meeting in Washington, D.C., and the organizational meeting later the same year in St. Louis. David Howard, who at the time led the Adirondack Blue Line Confederation in Caroga Lake, was the first president, but is no longer active in the Alliance. Adirondack activists who were at the first two meetings were Dale and Jeris French, Judy Ford, Donald Gerdts, David Howard, Carol LaGrasse and Keith Van Buskirk.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale French, Adirondack Solidarity Alliance, is the current board member representing the Northeast, and an advocate for property rights issues. He gave a speech at the 1999 Fly-In about grassroots organizing against the Northern Forest Lands Council and Carol LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America, spoke about the American Heritage Rivers program. Judy Ford and Jeris French of the Adirondack Solidarity Alliance are other active grassroots members from the Adirondacks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Alliance for America, although not a local Adirondack organization, is important to Adirondack issues because of the involvement of Dale French and the Adirondack Solidarity Alliance, and Carol LaGrasse, and the access which this provides to the membership mailings, web page, etc., and policy-making.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speakers at the 1999 Fly-In are the shortest list to display the emphasis and breadth of the Alliance’s coalitioning. These were:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale E. Anderson, Pennsylvania Forest Industry Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ron Arnold, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Joseph L. Bast, Heartland Institute</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kathleen Benedetto, National Wilderness Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matt Bennett, Emmet Vaughn Lumber Co., Knoxville, KY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patricia Bradburn, property owner, Manassas Park, VA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Helen Chenoweth</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laura Cleland, International Forest Products Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rose Comstock, Quincy Lumber Group, Quincy, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doug Crandall, Chief of Staff House Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chuck Cushman, American Land Rights Association;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Becky Norton Dunlop, Heritage Foundation</b>;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David D. Fredley, Minerals Management Consultants, Washington, DC;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale French</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank M. Gladies,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">International Forest Products Association, Beaverton, OR</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Gordon, Jr., National Wilderness Institute, Georgetown, VA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Hardiman, Policy and Communications Director to Congressman Richard Pombo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey P. Harris, People for the USA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carol W. LaGrasse</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Lippke, College of Forest Resources, Seattle, WA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Bill Moshofsky, Oregonians in Action (won Dolan v. Tigard), Tigard, OR</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Wm. Perry Pendley, Mountain States Legal Foundation</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Teresa Platt, Fur Commission USA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. Richard Pombo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rep. George Radanovich</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brooke Roberts, Legislative Dir. And Counsel, Senator Larry Craig</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jerry Schill, North Carolina Fisheries Assn.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steven D. Stinson, Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm, Toleda, WA;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Vincent</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harry V. Wiant, Jr. Ph.D., silviculture consultant; Morgantown, WV</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donn Zea, California Forest Products Association.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The attendees at the annual fly-In seem to be concentrated in the Northeast and the Far West including Alaska.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organizational Goals</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Alliance for America is a non-profit, grassroots organization of conservationists dedicated to bringing human concerns into environmental decision-making.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Annual Fly-In -for-Freedom features a weekend of speakers and training followed by three days of lobbying in Washington, DC. It is the only such event of consistency and importance. This year a group of dissatisfied participants in the Alliance and others organized another Washington gathering that they called the Property Rights Congress, but so far nothing of consequence has been reported.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to the Fly-In speakers on topics ranging from “Get a Grip on Earth Day” to “Tracking Congress’ Votes for Private Property Rights,” the Alliance published a program with issue statements on Animal Welfare, Endangered Species, Farming U.S. Domestic Fisheries, International Harvesting of the Oceans, Fur Farming, Hunting and Trapping, Mining and Society, Private Property (Dale French is the official contact), and Recreation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arnold's resume also includes his job as the executive vice president of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, a pro-corporate group founded in 1976 by his longtime comrade, Alan Gottlieb. (Gottlieb is also credited with founding the anti-gun control Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.) According to the Center for Media and Democracy's Disinfopedia, CDFE claims to be "a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy research, book publishing, conferences, white papers and media outreach." CDFE's website asserts that it tracks "threats to free markets, property rights and limited government." </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the years, CDFE, a tax-exempt educational organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Tax Code, has received support from a network of corporations, including Georgia Pacific, Louisiana-Pacific, MacMillan Bloedel, Pacific Lumber, Exxon, DuPont and Boise Cascade. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE) claims to be "a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy research, book publishing, conferences, white papers, and media outreach." According to their website, they track "threats to free markets, property rights and limited government." CDFE sponsors seminars, conferences and appears on radio programs focusing on the "threats" posed by environmentalism. It also sells training videos, books and distributes newsletters teaching supporters how to "fight back" against environmentalists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Executive Vice-President Ron Arnold has frequently testified before Congress on topics such as the threats of eco-terrorism. A term he claimed credit for coining in a 1982 Reason Magazine article. [1] He is considered the father of the Wise Use movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE maintains Undue Influence and its Green Tracking Library, an online database "to make the money, power, politics, and undue influence of the environmental movement transparent." [2]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[hide]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 History</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 CDFE activities</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.1 CDFE & animal rights</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 Interviews & quotes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 Beyond the 'Wise Use' movement</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 Funding & finances</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5.1 Partial funding history</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 Personnel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6.1 Advisors</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 Contact</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 Articles & sources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.1 Sourcewatch articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.2 References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.3 External articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.4 External resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the late 1980's, CDFE has been at the center of the Wise Use movement. It was originally founded by Alan Gottlieb on July 4, 1976, "the bicentennial of the American Revolution" as CDFE points out in its statement of purpose:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's programs include research, publication, conferences, consulting, training and media awareness on threats to free enterprise. We operate a book publishing division, the Free Enterprise Press, to disseminate important investigative and analytical research, and have a variety of programs to help individuals and businesses face free enterprise-related crises.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"CDFE has received national recognition for its programs and services, particularly in tracking the money of non-profit groups opposing free enterprise. Although we receive no government funding, we are dedicated to providing information and assistance to those struggling with government interference and civilian opposition to free enterprise." [3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE activities</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At CDFE's website you can also read the:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"rave reviews of Paul Driessen's new book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death that exposes the green racist agenda to withhold malaria control and life-saving GMO crop from Africa and other developing nations. A horrifying account of green genocide."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They fail to mention that the supposed ban on DDT in some third world countries, used to control malaria, is a myth. [4] [5] They also don't mention the known and significant hazards presented by GMO foods and that most countries, including African countries, have banned them. See also Food and Drug Administration.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In February 2004, Mr. Driessen appeared before the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, as a senior fellow representing three think tanks; the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and CDFE. He also claimed that the Economic Human Rights Project, which he was a director of, "was an initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality. According to Mr. Driessan:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Reflecting its belief that 'Economic rights are human rights' the growing coalition is dedicated to correcting prevalent environmental myths and misguided policies that help perpetuate poverty, misery, disease and early death in developing countries. [6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE & animal rights</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interviews & quotes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to CDFE Executive VP, Ron Arnold in a December 1991 article in the New York Times by reporter Timothy Egan:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members." [7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We (CDFE) created a sector of public opinion that didn't used to exist. No one was aware that environmentalism was a problem until we came along."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CDFE's IRS return states that Mr. Arnold works 20 hours a week without any compensation, Mr. Egan reported that in 1991 he charged $3,000 a day as a speaker or organizer of anti-environmental groups. For conservative fundraisers like Mr. Gottlieb, the enemies were Senator Edward M. Kennedy and gun control. However, he realized the potential financial rewards of opposing environmentalism:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"For us" said Mr. Gottlieb... "the environmental movement has become the perfect bogeyman." [8]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 1993, Mr. Arnold told Washington Times reporter Valerie Richardson that "since the Democrats got into power, our income has doubled." [9]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE and Ron Arnold, are considered by many to be the founding and principle strategy-setting forces in the grassroots anti-environmental movement. In his essay "Overcoming Ideology" he depicts environmentalists as "eco-ideologists" whose stand</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"against promoting economic growth, technological progress and a market economy" stands in sharp contrast to the wise use movement's actual stewardship of the land, the water and the air." Environmentalists are portrayed as "eco-fetishists" whose moral self-righteousness is "about the people, but not by or for them."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CDFE headline declares this essay is "regarded by many as the seminal expression of the ideas that have evolved into the richly diverse wise use movement."[10]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Environmental Working Group, in a Wise Use group analysis, says it is ironic that the CDFE website purports to represent a credible, rational opposition to environmentalism, given Arnold's role:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"in developing the radical, polarized and extreme early version of 'wise use' that vilified environmentalism and environmental activists."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a May 30, 1993 interview with CNN, he described the role of a wise user as akin to a warrior weilding a sword. "And that sword has two purposes: to carve out a niche for your agenda, to reshape the American law in your image; and, kill the bastards." [11]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then again, Arnold has also been quoted as having said that "Facts don't matter. In politics, perception is reality." [12], , [13]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 2004, the CDFE posted a commentary article from a Canadian newspaper objecting to environmental campaigns against the seal hunting to its website. The accompanying note summarized what CDFE thought of environmental groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Now it's time to turn the tables and outlaw or de-fund the anti-extraction groups that practice this barbaric brand of deliberate destruction of resource-extracting cultures." [14]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond the 'Wise Use' movement</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For all the hype about its plans, CDFE gives the impression of a floundering organisation. The conservative Capital Research Center, which has published several articles by Arnold since 2000 states in its Green Watch database that CDFE "publishes The Private Sector, a quarterly, Advise and Consent, a periodical, and the Wise Use Conservation Memo, a quarterly". However, there is no mention of these publications on the CDFE website.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In its 2002 IRS return CDFE lists only two achievements for the organisation in the preceding year. The first was the creation of "a publicly accessible computer database tracking activities and donations to anti-industry groups." It is a project that emulates what other conservative - and bigger budget -groups are doing. In a 2002 outline, CDFE had planned to:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Expand existing publicly accessible computer database to track activities and donations of animal rights groups."[15]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its other achievement for 2001 was the publishing of "an important new book by a widely respected crisis managment executive to aid businesses faced with organized opposition." CDFE also planned to take advantage of the focus on terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorists. As an objective for 2002, CDFE planned to:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Create an outreach program increasing public awareness of eco-terrorism and how the public can help law enforcement stop anti-business crime."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CDFE website features categories such as PETA-probe, eco-imperialism, and the latest headlines from Fox News. CDFE also hosts two increasingly dated websites:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Undue Influence, "tracking the environmental movement's money, power, and harm."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RANamuck, an anti-Rainforest Action Network site.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CDFE have made a name for themselves championing anti-environmentalism, their advocacy efforts occasionally take a bizarre twist. In July 2003 Arnold issued a media release calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to prevent a takeover bid of computer software company PeopleSoft by Oracle.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The month before Arnold had dispatched a media release to business editors stating that it had developed a list of major "scandals in the making" and was launching "Scandal-Scan because of recent corporate scandals". In what reads like a pitch seeking support from the business community, CDFE announced that it was "taking action before they can become 'corporate disasters.'" The problems identified weren't corporate accounting standards, but issues such as the activities of the Nature Conservancy and re-insurance contracts. Topping the list was "greenmail". According to the media release:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Are corporations being coerced into paying off activist organizations in exchange for their no longer accusing them of 'social irresponsibility' or environmental damage? Are such non-profit activist groups subject to Federal Trade Commission rules on anti-competitive acts and collusions with for-profit firms to unfairly manipulate markets and damage competing businesses?" [16], [17], [18]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funding & finances</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE is a tax-exempt, educational organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Tax Code. Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 91-0973976. CDFE states that it is a "non-partisan" non-profit that "accepts no government grants". [19]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Capital Research Center, states in its Green Watch database that CDFE has a "membership" of 75,000. However, this seems overstated given the CDFE finances of recent years have been been modest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Partial funding history</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coors Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Georgia Pacific</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Louisiana-Pacific</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MacMillan Bloedel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pacific Lumber</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DuPont, Agricultural Products Division</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boise Cascade</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seneca Sawmills</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sun Studs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burkland Lumber</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">F.M. Kirby Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2003 ExxonMobil donated $40,000 to CDFE for "global climate change issues". [20]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This contribution represents 47% of the reported "gifts, grants, and contributions received" by the CDFE.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Month Total revenue Total expenses Net assets</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1999 26,812 26,947 35,299</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2000 64,114 42,048 54,879</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001 142,246 98,881 99,247</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2002 76,899 100,702 74,846</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[21]  </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Personnel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan Gottlieb, founder</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Samuel M. Slom, Vice President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Merrill R. Jacobs, Secretary</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Julianne Versnel, Treasurer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Stevens - (R-AK) Senator</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dick Cheney - Former VP & Secretary of Defense</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Ichord - American Freedom Coalition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barbara Keating - Consumer Alert</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Simon - Heritage Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise 12500 NE 10th Place</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bellevue, WA 98005</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Web address: http://www.cdfe.org/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? The Birth of a Buzz-Word: Eco-Terrorism" (Ron Arnold response to article), Indymedia, September 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Website Accessed April, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Jim Norton The DDT Ban Myth, Infopollution</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Jim Norton More DDT myths, Infopollution, accessed February 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Paul Driessen Statement of Paul K. Driessen, APR, Esq. Director, Economic Human Rights Project to House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources", February 4, 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Timothy Egan Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism, New York Times, pg 2, December 19, 1991</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Timothy Egan Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism, New York Times, pg 1, December 19, 1991</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Valerie Richardson, "'Wise Use' drive fights environmentalists: grass-roots groups spread across West to defend human, business interests", Washington Times, June 20, 1993</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold Overcoming Ideology,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? David Helvarg The War Against the Greens: The Wise-Use Movement, The New Right, and the Browning of America, pg 7, May 2004, ISBN 978-1555663285</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Outside magazine, December, 1991</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? William Kevin Burke The Wise Use Movement: Right-Wing Anti-Environmentalism, The Public Eye, 1993</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Canadian seal hunt protests: Eco-colonialism or legitimate concern?", CDFE, June 8, 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? 'Foundation Calls on Justice Department to Stop Oracle's Bid to Buy PeopleSoft, CDFE Media Release, U.S. Newswire, July 8, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold, "In Antitrust We Trust", Investor's Business Daily, July 15, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold, "Oracle's bluff", letter to the editor, Chicago Tribune, July 16, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Corporate Giving Report, ExxonMobil, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? IRS 990 Tax Return, CDFE, 2006</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Montana, the report shows that the group Flathead Residents Earning Equality (FREE) surfaced in 1972 after the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes instated a $5 fee for tribal recreation permits. Charlo-area farmer Del Palmer, who is still a leader in statewide anti-Indian activities, served as the group’s first chairman. While FREE faded, a new group, Montanans Opposing Discrimination, or MOD, formed in its wake. The group’s leaders included Palmer, former Ronan City Attorney Lloyd Ingraham, and Kalispell radio broadcaster G. George Ostrom. The report states that Ostrom, a one-time executive director of MOD, later distanced himself from the organization because he considered some of its leaders to be too rabid.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“To some of them, the only good Indian was a dead Indian,” Ostrom is quoted as saying.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Faced with declining membership and a poor public persona in the early 1980s, MOD’s home chapter in Polson underwent another facelift and name change, this time emerging as ACE, or All Citizens Equal.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jump to: navigation, search</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In April 2004, the Capital Research Center published an article by Executive Director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Ron Arnold railing at the prospect that Teresa Heinz Kerry could become the 'first lady' of the United States and still control her philanthropic foundations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent years Arnold, a Wise Use Movement leader and a declared Republican, has found a niche for himself in having articles published in CRC's monthly newsletter, Foundation Watch, published by the conservative (CRC).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The United States has never had a wealthy spouse overshadow its President," Arnold melodramatically warned. "But Teresa Heinz Kerry leads and funds philanthropic foundations, and she is on the board of directors of highly political nonprofit groups that receive her foundation's support and that can advance or frustrate the policies of her husband, should he become president," he wrote. [[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following his death Teresa Heinz became chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment and she is now also Chairman of the board of the Heinz Family Foundations. The foundations give modest grants to a range of environmental groups, including the League of Conservation Voters, which ranks the envionmental voting record of members of Congress. Arnold told the Los Angeles Times"this is very Machiavellian".</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Perhaps you could chalk up the environmental movement's strong and early support for John Kerry's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination to the influence of his wife," he speculated. "Heinz foundation grants pay for groups sponsoring thinly disguised anti-business drives and partisan political campaigns," he complained.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chellenging the use by Heinz personally of two person Heinz Kerry trusts, Arnold argued that "exempt foundations have an obligation to be transparent and straightforward about their revenue and their grants".</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One project funded by Heinz foundation money - the Clean Air Task Force - particularly irritated Arnold. While the grant was to protect air quality in south-western Pennsylvania from power utilities emissions Arnold claimed this really mean it was "to turn public opinion against the Bush administration and shut down Midwest coal-and-oil fired utilities".</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arnold's article succeeded in gaining traction in the mainstream media. Most reported the Capital Research Center as a conservative non-profit group but none reported Arnold's role as a leader of the Wise Use Movement. Nor was it reported that Arnold's Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise received funding from ExxonMobil in 2003. Nor did CRC disclose that it has received funds from ExxonMobil in 2002 and 2003.[2][3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CRC and Arnold got a good run with their timely newsletter profile of Heinz Kerry, it wasn't all plain sailing. The New York Times noted that one of the biggest funders of the CRC was the Sarah Scaife Foundation - chaired by Richard Mellon Scaife- which contributed $700,000 to the center from 1998 to 2002.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scaife's cousin, the New York Times reported, is James M. Walton who is not only the chairman of the Vira I. Heinz Endowment but is also a member of the board of the Sarah Scaife Foundation which approved CRC's funding. While Scaife foundations did not respond to inquiries, Walton wrote in an email that he supported funding for CRC.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Membership is comprised of individuals and member organizations from the wise use and property rights movement throughout the country.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The timber industry from the Northwest primarily organized the first “Fly-In-For-Freedom” in Washington, DC, in 1991.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nearly all of the national wise-use and private property rights organizations are participants in the Alliance for America, which is an umbrella organization. Industry has provided a significant part of the funding for the annual conventions, and affected the selection of agendas. There has been a constant tension between the wise use and industry groups, on the one hand, which have established lobbying systems which are willing to compromise against on endangered species and property rights in general, and the grassroots property rights organizations, primarily in the East, on the other hand.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Adirondack property rights activists have participated from the first meeting in Washington, D.C., and the organizational meeting later the same year in St. Louis. David Howard, who at the time led the Adirondack Blue Line Confederation in Caroga Lake, was the first president, but is no longer active in the Alliance. Adirondack activists who were at the first two meetings were Dale and Jeris French, Judy Ford, Donald Gerdts, David Howard, Carol LaGrasse and Keith Van Buskirk.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale French, Adirondack Solidarity Alliance, is the current board member representing the Northeast, and an advocate for property rights issues. He gave a speech at the 1999 Fly-In about grassroots organizing against the Northern Forest Lands Council and Carol LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America, spoke about the American Heritage Rivers program. Judy Ford and Jeris French of the Adirondack Solidarity Alliance are other active grassroots members from the Adirondacks.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Alliance for America, although not a local Adirondack organization, is important to Adirondack issues because of the involvement of Dale French and the Adirondack Solidarity Alliance, and Carol LaGrasse, and the access which this provides to the membership mailings, web page, etc., and policy-making.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Speakers at the 1999 Fly-In are the shortest list to display the emphasis and breadth of the Alliance’s coalitioning. These were:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale E. Anderson, Pennsylvania Forest Industry Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Arnold, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joseph L. Bast, Heartland Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kathleen Benedetto, National Wilderness Institute</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Matt Bennett, Emmet Vaughn Lumber Co., Knoxville, KY</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Patricia Bradburn, property owner, Manassas Park, VA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Helen Chenoweth</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Laura Cleland, International Forest Products Association</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rose Comstock, Quincy Lumber Group, Quincy, CA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doug Crandall, Chief of Staff House Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chuck Cushman, American Land Rights Association;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Becky Norton Dunlop, Heritage Foundation;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David D. Fredley, Minerals Management Consultants, Washington, DC;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dale French</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frank M. Gladies,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">International Forest Products Association, Beaverton, OR</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Robert Gordon, Jr., National Wilderness Institute, Georgetown, VA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Michael Hardiman, Policy and Communications Director to Congressman Richard Pombo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeffrey P. Harris, People for the USA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Carol W. LaGrasse</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Lippke, College of Forest Resources, Seattle, WA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Bill Moshofsky, Oregonians in Action (won Dolan v. Tigard), Tigard, OR</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wm. Perry Pendley, Mountain States Legal Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Teresa Platt, Fur Commission USA</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Richard Pombo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. George Radanovich</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brooke Roberts, Legislative Dir. And Counsel, Senator Larry Craig</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jerry Schill, North Carolina Fisheries Assn.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steven D. Stinson, Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm, Toleda, WA;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bruce Vincent</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harry V. Wiant, Jr. Ph.D., silviculture consultant; Morgantown, WV</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donn Zea, California Forest Products Association.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The attendees at the annual fly-In seem to be concentrated in the Northeast and the Far West including Alaska.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The Alliance for America is a non-profit, grassroots organization of conservationists dedicated to bringing human concerns into environmental decision-making.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Annual Fly-In -for-Freedom features a weekend of speakers and training followed by three days of lobbying in Washington, DC. It is the only such event of consistency and importance. This year a group of dissatisfied participants in the Alliance and others organized another Washington gathering that they called the Property Rights Congress, but so far nothing of consequence has been reported.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to the Fly-In speakers on topics ranging from “Get a Grip on Earth Day” to “Tracking Congress’ Votes for Private Property Rights,” the Alliance published a program with issue statements on Animal Welfare, Endangered Species, Farming U.S. Domestic Fisheries, International Harvesting of the Oceans, Fur Farming, Hunting and Trapping, Mining and Society, Private Property (Dale French is the official contact), and Recreation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Arnold's resume also includes his job as the executive vice president of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, a pro-corporate group founded in 1976 by his longtime comrade, Alan Gottlieb. (Gottlieb is also credited with founding the anti-gun control Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.) According to the Center for Media and Democracy's Disinfopedia, CDFE claims to be "a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy research, book publishing, conferences, white papers and media outreach." CDFE's website asserts that it tracks "threats to free markets, property rights and limited government." </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over the years, CDFE, a tax-exempt educational organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Tax Code, has received support from a network of corporations, including Georgia Pacific, Louisiana-Pacific, MacMillan Bloedel, Pacific Lumber, Exxon, DuPont and Boise Cascade. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_the_Defense_of_Free_Enterprise</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE) claims to be "a non-partisan education and research organization which works on free enterprise studies, public policy research, book publishing, conferences, white papers, and media outreach." According to their website, they track "threats to free markets, property rights and limited government." CDFE sponsors seminars, conferences and appears on radio programs focusing on the "threats" posed by environmentalism. It also sells training videos, books and distributes newsletters teaching supporters how to "fight back" against environmentalists.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Executive Vice-President Ron Arnold has frequently testified before Congress on topics such as the threats of eco-terrorism. A term he claimed credit for coining in a 1982 Reason Magazine article. [1] He is considered the father of the Wise Use movement.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE maintains Undue Influence and its Green Tracking Library, an online database "to make the money, power, politics, and undue influence of the environmental movement transparent." [2]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[hide]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1 History</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2 CDFE activities</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2.1 CDFE & animal rights</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3 Interviews & quotes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4 Beyond the 'Wise Use' movement</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5 Funding & finances</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5.1 Partial funding history</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6 Personnel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6.1 Advisors</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7 Contact</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 Articles & sources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.1 Sourcewatch articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.2 References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.3 External articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8.4 External resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">History</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since the late 1980's, CDFE has been at the center of the Wise Use movement. It was originally founded by Alan Gottlieb on July 4, 1976, "the bicentennial of the American Revolution" as CDFE points out in its statement of purpose:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's programs include research, publication, conferences, consulting, training and media awareness on threats to free enterprise. We operate a book publishing division, the Free Enterprise Press, to disseminate important investigative and analytical research, and have a variety of programs to help individuals and businesses face free enterprise-related crises.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"CDFE has received national recognition for its programs and services, particularly in tracking the money of non-profit groups opposing free enterprise. Although we receive no government funding, we are dedicated to providing information and assistance to those struggling with government interference and civilian opposition to free enterprise." [3]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE activities</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At CDFE's website you can also read the:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"rave reviews of Paul Driessen's new book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death that exposes the green racist agenda to withhold malaria control and life-saving GMO crop from Africa and other developing nations. A horrifying account of green genocide."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They fail to mention that the supposed ban on DDT in some third world countries, used to control malaria, is a myth. [4] [5] They also don't mention the known and significant hazards presented by GMO foods and that most countries, including African countries, have banned them. See also Food and Drug Administration.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In February 2004, Mr. Driessen appeared before the House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, as a senior fellow representing three think tanks; the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and CDFE. He also claimed that the Economic Human Rights Project, which he was a director of, "was an initiative of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, in cooperation with the Congress of Racial Equality. According to Mr. Driessan:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Reflecting its belief that 'Economic rights are human rights' the growing coalition is dedicated to correcting prevalent environmental myths and misguided policies that help perpetuate poverty, misery, disease and early death in developing countries. [6]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE & animal rights</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">See also Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interviews & quotes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to CDFE Executive VP, Ron Arnold in a December 1991 article in the New York Times by reporter Timothy Egan:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We want to destroy environmentalists by taking away their money and their members." [7]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We (CDFE) created a sector of public opinion that didn't used to exist. No one was aware that environmentalism was a problem until we came along."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CDFE's IRS return states that Mr. Arnold works 20 hours a week without any compensation, Mr. Egan reported that in 1991 he charged $3,000 a day as a speaker or organizer of anti-environmental groups. For conservative fundraisers like Mr. Gottlieb, the enemies were Senator Edward M. Kennedy and gun control. However, he realized the potential financial rewards of opposing environmentalism:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"For us" said Mr. Gottlieb... "the environmental movement has become the perfect bogeyman." [8]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 1993, Mr. Arnold told Washington Times reporter Valerie Richardson that "since the Democrats got into power, our income has doubled." [9]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE and Ron Arnold, are considered by many to be the founding and principle strategy-setting forces in the grassroots anti-environmental movement. In his essay "Overcoming Ideology" he depicts environmentalists as "eco-ideologists" whose stand</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"against promoting economic growth, technological progress and a market economy" stands in sharp contrast to the wise use movement's actual stewardship of the land, the water and the air." Environmentalists are portrayed as "eco-fetishists" whose moral self-righteousness is "about the people, but not by or for them."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CDFE headline declares this essay is "regarded by many as the seminal expression of the ideas that have evolved into the richly diverse wise use movement."[10]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Environmental Working Group, in a Wise Use group analysis, says it is ironic that the CDFE website purports to represent a credible, rational opposition to environmentalism, given Arnold's role:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"in developing the radical, polarized and extreme early version of 'wise use' that vilified environmentalism and environmental activists."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a May 30, 1993 interview with CNN, he described the role of a wise user as akin to a warrior weilding a sword. "And that sword has two purposes: to carve out a niche for your agenda, to reshape the American law in your image; and, kill the bastards." [11]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then again, Arnold has also been quoted as having said that "Facts don't matter. In politics, perception is reality." [12], , [13]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June 2004, the CDFE posted a commentary article from a Canadian newspaper objecting to environmental campaigns against the seal hunting to its website. The accompanying note summarized what CDFE thought of environmental groups.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Now it's time to turn the tables and outlaw or de-fund the anti-extraction groups that practice this barbaric brand of deliberate destruction of resource-extracting cultures." [14]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beyond the 'Wise Use' movement</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For all the hype about its plans, CDFE gives the impression of a floundering organisation. The conservative Capital Research Center, which has published several articles by Arnold since 2000 states in its Green Watch database that CDFE "publishes The Private Sector, a quarterly, Advise and Consent, a periodical, and the Wise Use Conservation Memo, a quarterly". However, there is no mention of these publications on the CDFE website.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In its 2002 IRS return CDFE lists only two achievements for the organisation in the preceding year. The first was the creation of "a publicly accessible computer database tracking activities and donations to anti-industry groups." It is a project that emulates what other conservative - and bigger budget -groups are doing. In a 2002 outline, CDFE had planned to:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Expand existing publicly accessible computer database to track activities and donations of animal rights groups."[15]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Its other achievement for 2001 was the publishing of "an important new book by a widely respected crisis managment executive to aid businesses faced with organized opposition." CDFE also planned to take advantage of the focus on terrorism in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorists. As an objective for 2002, CDFE planned to:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Create an outreach program increasing public awareness of eco-terrorism and how the public can help law enforcement stop anti-business crime."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CDFE website features categories such as PETA-probe, eco-imperialism, and the latest headlines from Fox News. CDFE also hosts two increasingly dated websites:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Undue Influence, "tracking the environmental movement's money, power, and harm."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RANamuck, an anti-Rainforest Action Network site.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CDFE have made a name for themselves championing anti-environmentalism, their advocacy efforts occasionally take a bizarre twist. In July 2003 Arnold issued a media release calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to prevent a takeover bid of computer software company PeopleSoft by Oracle.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The month before Arnold had dispatched a media release to business editors stating that it had developed a list of major "scandals in the making" and was launching "Scandal-Scan because of recent corporate scandals". In what reads like a pitch seeking support from the business community, CDFE announced that it was "taking action before they can become 'corporate disasters.'" The problems identified weren't corporate accounting standards, but issues such as the activities of the Nature Conservancy and re-insurance contracts. Topping the list was "greenmail". According to the media release:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Are corporations being coerced into paying off activist organizations in exchange for their no longer accusing them of 'social irresponsibility' or environmental damage? Are such non-profit activist groups subject to Federal Trade Commission rules on anti-competitive acts and collusions with for-profit firms to unfairly manipulate markets and damage competing businesses?" [16], [17], [18]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Funding & finances</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CDFE is a tax-exempt, educational organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States Tax Code. Employer Identification Number (EIN) is 91-0973976. CDFE states that it is a "non-partisan" non-profit that "accepts no government grants". [19]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Capital Research Center, states in its Green Watch database that CDFE has a "membership" of 75,000. However, this seems overstated given the CDFE finances of recent years have been been modest.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Partial funding history</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coors Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Georgia Pacific</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Louisiana-Pacific</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MacMillan Bloedel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pacific Lumber</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DuPont, Agricultural Products Division</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boise Cascade</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seneca Sawmills</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sun Studs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Burkland Lumber</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">F.M. Kirby Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2003 ExxonMobil donated $40,000 to CDFE for "global climate change issues". [20]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This contribution represents 47% of the reported "gifts, grants, and contributions received" by the CDFE.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Month<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Total revenue<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Total expenses<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Net assets</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1999<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>26,812<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>26,947<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>35,299</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2000<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>64,114<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>42,048<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>54,879</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>142,246<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>98,881<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>99,247</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2002<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>76,899<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>100,702<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>74,846</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[21]  </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Personnel</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Arnold, Executive Vice President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan Gottlieb, founder</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Samuel M. Slom, Vice President</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Merrill R. Jacobs, Secretary</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Julianne Versnel, Treasurer</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advisors</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ted Stevens - (R-AK) Senator</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dick Cheney - Former VP & Secretary of Defense</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Richard Ichord - American Freedom Coalition</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barbara Keating - Consumer Alert</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">William Simon - Heritage Foundation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contact</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise 12500 NE 10th Place</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bellevue, WA 98005</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Phone: 206.455.5038</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Web address: http://www.cdfe.org/</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sourcewatch articles</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alan Gottlieb</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Astroturf</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biotechnology</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Conservatives target the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Criminalising civil disobedience</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Disinformation</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intimidating public interest groups</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intimidating democracy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Intimidating foundations</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earth Liberation Front</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eco-Imperialism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eco-terrorism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eco-terrorism hoaxes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ecoterrorism Prevention Act of 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmentalism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Environmental activists who have been injured or killed</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earth Liberation Front</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Global Warming</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ron Arnold</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wise Use</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">References</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? The Birth of a Buzz-Word: Eco-Terrorism" (Ron Arnold response to article), Indymedia, September 2007</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Website Accessed April, 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Jim Norton The DDT Ban Myth, Infopollution</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Jim Norton More DDT myths, Infopollution, accessed February 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Paul Driessen Statement of Paul K. Driessen, APR, Esq. Director, Economic Human Rights Project to House Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources", February 4, 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Timothy Egan Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism, New York Times, pg 2, December 19, 1991</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Timothy Egan Fund Raisers Tap Anti- Environmentalism, New York Times, pg 1, December 19, 1991</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Valerie Richardson, "'Wise Use' drive fights environmentalists: grass-roots groups spread across West to defend human, business interests", Washington Times, June 20, 1993</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold Overcoming Ideology,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? David Helvarg The War Against the Greens: The Wise-Use Movement, The New Right, and the Browning of America, pg 7, May 2004, ISBN 978-1555663285</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Outside magazine, December, 1991</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? William Kevin Burke The Wise Use Movement: Right-Wing Anti-Environmentalism, The Public Eye, 1993</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Canadian seal hunt protests: Eco-colonialism or legitimate concern?", CDFE, June 8, 2004</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? 'Foundation Calls on Justice Department to Stop Oracle's Bid to Buy PeopleSoft, CDFE Media Release, U.S. Newswire, July 8, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold, "In Antitrust We Trust", Investor's Business Daily, July 15, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Ron Arnold, "Oracle's bluff", letter to the editor, Chicago Tribune, July 16, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Nonprofit Report: Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, Guidestar, accessed February 2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? Corporate Giving Report, ExxonMobil, 2003</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">? IRS 990 Tax Return, CDFE, 2006</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Montana, the report shows that the group Flathead Residents Earning Equality (FREE) surfaced in 1972 after the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes instated a $5 fee for tribal recreation permits. Charlo-area farmer Del Palmer, who is still a leader in statewide anti-Indian activities, served as the group’s first chairman. While FREE faded, a new group, Montanans Opposing Discrimination, or MOD, formed in its wake. The group’s leaders included Palmer, former Ronan City Attorney Lloyd Ingraham, and Kalispell radio broadcaster G. George Ostrom. The report states that Ostrom, a one-time executive director of MOD, later distanced himself from the organization because he considered some of its leaders to be too rabid.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent years Arnold, a Wise Use Movement leader and a declared Republican, has found a niche for himself in having articles published in CRC's monthly newsletter, Foundation Watch, published by the conservative (CRC).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The United States has never had a wealthy spouse overshadow its President," Arnold melodramatically warned. "But Teresa Heinz Kerry leads and funds philanthropic foundations, and she is on the board of directors of highly political nonprofit groups that receive her foundation's support and that can advance or frustrate the policies of her husband, should he become president," he wrote. [[1]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following his death Teresa Heinz became chairman of the Howard Heinz Endowment and the Vira I. Heinz Endowment and she is now also Chairman of the board of the Heinz Family Foundations. The foundations give modest grants to a range of environmental groups, including the League of Conservation Voters, which ranks the envionmental voting record of members of Congress. Arnold told the Los Angeles Times"this is very Machiavellian".</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Perhaps you could chalk up the environmental movement's strong and early support for John Kerry's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination to the influence of his wife," he speculated. "Heinz foundation grants pay for groups sponsoring thinly disguised anti-business drives and partisan political campaigns," he complained.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chellenging the use by Heinz personally of two person Heinz Kerry trusts, Arnold argued that "exempt foundations have an obligation to be transparent and straightforward about their revenue and their grants".</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One project funded by Heinz foundation money - the Clean Air Task Force - particularly irritated Arnold. While the grant was to protect air quality in south-western Pennsylvania from power utilities emissions Arnold claimed this really mean it was "to turn public opinion against the Bush administration and shut down Midwest coal-and-oil fired utilities".</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While CRC and Arnold got a good run with their timely newsletter profile of Heinz Kerry, it wasn't all plain sailing. The New York Times noted that one of the biggest funders of the CRC was the Sarah Scaife Foundation - chaired by Richard Mellon Scaife- which contributed $700,000 to the center from 1998 to 2002.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scaife's cousin, the New York Times reported, is James M. Walton who is not only the chairman of the Vira I. Heinz Endowment but is also a member of the board of the Sarah Scaife Foundation which approved CRC's funding. While Scaife foundations did not respond to inquiries, Walton wrote in an email that he supported funding for CRC.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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