Reply #53: Here's a Mother Jones article about both groups that [View All]

[Cleita]

should clarify what they stand for.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2002/02/ecoterror.html

This paragraph should sum up what liberal environmental groups think of eco-terrorists.

Many of the groups bristled at McInnis' letter, which some saw as an effort to tar all environmental activists with the same brush. Nonetheless, most environmental organizations made it clear they view the efforts of the ELF and ALF activists as dangerous folly. In his response to McInnis' letter, for instance, Greenpeace executive director John Passacatando wrote: "If we define eco-terrorism as violence, violence to people or to property, we disavow it. The peaceful tactics of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are the models for our work."