| "What we want now is nothing short of
a revolution. [Censored] that crap you read
in Wild Earth or Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. Monkeywrenching is just
more than sabotage, and your [Censored]
[Censored] right it's revolutionary. This
is Jihad, pal. There are no innocent bystanders, because in these
desperate hours, bystanders are not innocent. We'll broaden our theater
of conflict ..." - By Mike Roselle, cofounder of Earth First!, the
Rainforest Action Network, and the Ted Turner-funded Ruckus Society.
Printed in the January 1995 Earth First Journal
"I have a theory. My theory is that every time
the Forest Service or some other entity commits an act of destruction of
the wild, if every time they plow under another roadless area, or murder
a wolf, or mangle and plunder and sack a wild place, if every time they
do this I take my anger and place it in a certain compartment inside my
brain, than when it becomes time to throw bombs I will be the best bomb
thrower, perhaps better than the other bombthrowers. So, I spend my days
patiently contriving means to stop the madness which drives the Forest
Service and other renegades, and each day I read the mail; perhaps I
file anther appeal and then at the end of the day I open up this special
compartment inside my brain and I put the anger of some new atrocity in
it, in anticipation of the day when I shall need this anger in order to
throw bombs. But a new fear has overcome me. I perceive my anger calling
me from inside its compartment, I hear the door unlatch from inside, and
this new terrible question approaches me: "How will I know when it
is time to throw bombs." - Wild Rockies Review Volume 6, Number 1
1993 - By Earth Firster, Eric Bowers Ryberg also known as Pajama. |