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ECOTERRORIST INSTRUCTION MANUALS
Several books have been published that constitute instruction manuals in committing crimes.
1993. Captain Paul Watson’s book Earthforce! An Earth Warrior’s Guide To Strategy published. An instruction manual in nine situations including civil disobedience, infiltration, and “striking illegally and with great destruction.” Watson stressed the prohibition against injuring or killing any living being. Chaco Press, La Canada, California.
June 1991. Grass Valley, California. Publication of
A Declaration of War: Killing People to Save Animals & the Environment, by Screaming Wolf [pseudonym of Sidney and Tanya Singer], Patrick Henry Press. First overt recommendation to kill people to save nature. The book stirred controversy within the radical environmental movement. Some claimed it was published by anti-environment activists to discredit the movement, a standard “defenses of innocence” and “shifting attention” tactic. The actual authors and publishers were Sidney and Tanya Singer of the Good Shepherd Foundation, long-time animal rights activists. The publishers, now in Canada, claimed that the book had been sent to them anonymously on a computer diskette. The book is outlawed in Canada and the United Kingdom under incitement to violence laws.1985. Dave Foreman’s
Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching self-published. Nine chapters of instructions on subjects ranging from tree spiking to road sabotage, from disabling equipment to disrupting predator trapping, from jamming locks and making smoke bombs to propaganda, writing untraceable letters and evading capture. Foreman was listed as “editor” with Bill Haywood, pseudonym. Some think Mike Roselle was “Haywood,” others think Foreman worked alone. Roselle later repudiated the book as Foreman’s and not Earth First’s. Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood, Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, Ned Ludd Books, Tucson, Arizona, 1985.February, 1972. Washington, D. C. While revising a 1970 book, Earth Tool Kit, the group Environmental Action sponsored a nationwide contest for sabotage ideas with results published in the handbook
Ecotage! Ecotage was defined as “the branch of tactical biology that deals with the relationship between living organisms and their technology. It usually refers to tactics which can be exercised without injury to life systems.” Detailed instructions on sabotaging equipment, destroying billboards, removing road survey stakes, unfurling banners, plugging industrial waste and sewer pipes, delivering sludge and dead animals to corporate offices, and other now-familiar actions. Its description of the ecotage movement presaged Earth First: “The movement’s strength is that it is not formally organized and it cannot be stopped by elimination of key leaders. Though not rigidly structured, it is unified by a philosophy of respect for life.” This was the earliest ecoterror instruction manual and prototype for Dave Foreman’s similar 1985 manual, EcoDefense. Sam Love and David Obst, editors, with a foreword by Robert Townsend, Ecotage!, Pocket Books, New York, February, 1972. 186 pages.For various ecoterrorist manuals, visit the ELF website earthliberationfront.com