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Summary: Fundamental Read for Understanding Eco-Terror
Review: Arnold provides a valuable detailed account of how eco-terrorism got its foothold in the United States and to what end some environmental vigilantes are willing to go to affect social change. It is only by fully understanding what drives eco-terrorism that we as a community can expect to prevent the considerable social and economic harm caused when eco-terrorists take the law into their own hands.
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Summary: EcoTerror voted one of the top 100 books of the 20th century
Review: I am informed that EcoTerror has been voted one of the 100 most important non-fiction books of the 20th Century in a Random House/Modern Library reader poll completed in late 1999.
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Summary: One star only because you don't offer zero as an option
Review: I was interested in hearing the anti-environment view to challenge my own beliefs. Unfortunately Arnold is so obviously deceptive, that I could not take seriously his critiques. Don't waste your time or money on this dud.
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Summary: It's about time.....
Review: In dealing with radical environmentalist, I felt this book was right on. I have had the pleasure of dealing with their actions myself and this book explained my experiences to a T. The theory behind the radical enviros actions is compassionately explained in Mr. Arnolds analysis of them. I recommend this book to anyone who has ever been terrorized by or curious about the true objectives of the movement.
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Summary: Fabricates facts to make his case.
Review: Ron Arnold's agenda is clear to any reader, even if his motives are not. He wants to discredit and undermine the movement to conserve nature. In the course of pursuing this agenda he makes leaps of record and logic that, when detected, leave him and his book flailing at air. I'm happy to give credit for some new and exhaustive research included in Ecoterror, including interesting history about forerunners to Earth First! and other environmental groups. But Arnold conspicuously overreaches in trying to link mainstream conservationists to a violent agenda and to the Unabomber. Perhaps this is what one would expect from a book of this sort, but Arnold goes overboard. For instance, in trying to link me (your reviewer) and my respected organization to a dark undercurrent of thought and action, he resorted to false and libelous statements which he has since been forced to withdraw in an errata sheet which can be found on his web site. If you read Ecoterror, do so with healthy skepticism.
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Summary: A Must Read For Anyone Forced To Deal With Earth First!
Review: Ron Arnold's book is well-researched, well-documented, balanced and surprisingly interesting. Once you get past the sensationalist title, the book is professionally balanced and objectively written. The author avoids categorizing all Earth Firsters as terrorists; rather, he merely points out the obvious: The movement has an upper echelon cadre of radicals that may espouse non-violence as useful propaganda, but in reality advocates and uses violence to achieve the movement's goals. Using Earth First!'s own rhetoric, reliable outside evidence and sound analysis from social scientists and terrorism experts, Ron Arnold exposes the frightening reality that is Earth First! These are not merely a group of harmless tree huggers, although many certainly are. Rather, Earth First! has a hard core, anarchist element that comprises a dangerous, decentralized organization with an apocalyptic, self-hatred view of humanity and a cult like worship of deep ecology that should alarm rational people. This book should be required reading.
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Summary: Transparent propoganda.
Review: Ron Arnold's premise here, it seems, is that the Unabomber is or was linked to the environmental movement. This book is less about the Unabomber than an attempt to demonize environmentalists. Tries to make connection after connection that simply does not exist.
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Summary: Pitiful
Review: The book is a litany of jaded corporate arguments for the continued destruction of nature so that a few people can get richer. To be read only in the same way you watch a bad B-movie -- for the unintentional laughs. The book's inability to understand social activism (not to mention concepts like justice) would have made it a best-seller in Czarist Russia.
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Summary: I Weep For My Country
Review: This book from Free Enterprise, gee I wonder what their agenda is? use's the same language that the violent hate group The Sahara Club use's, and who the FBI quotes in their press releases, to justify the terrorization & chemical torture of young activists. Amazon a company based in Seattle which has it's own experience with pepper spray sadists would link this filth with a noble title like Ecodefense. The efforts to reduce the virginal beauty of the last wild forests to sand dunes, sani-cans, and motorcycle trails is proceeding, the good guys are losing...
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book is a great exposition on violence perpetrated in the name of the environment. It exposes Ted Kaczynski's connections to the environmental movement and goes in-depth into the detrimental effect his acts have had upon innocent individuals targeted simply to further a pseudo-intellectual agenda.
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