Letter from the ELF

Letter from the ELF


Thursday, January 20, 2005 5:52 AM PST


(The last two paragraphs of the letter have been omitted due to its call to the public for additional terrorist tactics.)




The Earth Liberation Front, ELF, claims responsibility for the actions taken in Placer County. The sabotage of countless tractors, broken windows and graffiti in many developments in the area, attempted arson on 4 homes in JTS Communities Twelve Bridges housing development in the city of Lincoln and the Park Hill Office buildings under construction, in the city of Auburn.

To our utter disbelief and dismay our incendiary devices failed to ignite and the damage caused was minimal. Due to a bad batch of model rocket igniters the delays we constructed failed to ignite our buckets of ½ diesel ½ gasoline, 4 of which were left at the JTS site and 5 at the proposed office building. The flaw was not caught during testing due to the use of other rocket igniters. Rest assured next time those targeted will not be so fortunate.

The purpose was to cause as much economic damage to JTS Communities, a major developer in one of the fastest growing areas in the country, by burning 4 $750,000 Luxury homes nestled on that cul-de-sac to the ground. It was done in honor of everyone who has felt helpless to sprawl and development, everyone who feels their rural lifestyles are being threatened by these mass-produced designer communities, everyone who has ever looked at that hill with chills down their spine and been sickened to the core of their being by the cancer spewing forth from Lincoln.

Though our fires failed the actions were not completely unsuccessful. We are not so naïve to believe that we would have stopped development in Twelve Bridges. Though we could have caused over 2 million in damages, it was still a fairly symbolic protest and the message should have still registered; that we are exceptionally serious, the necessity of new discussions and that all of the true eco-terrorists such as JTS should consider themselves forewarned.


We are called eco-terrorists, but this is complete folly spat about to scare people as well as to discredit our motives and us. Eco, short for ecosystem combined with terrorist, defined by the U.S. Government, as an individual or group that indiscriminately kills civilians or uses violence to achieve their political goals. The ELF is not violent; violence cannot be committed against inanimate objects. And our goal is to end politics. We are said to have no compassion for people because we cause damage to their businesses and property, but the State gives our 22 year sentences for an ELF activist who burned 3 SUV's, whereas murderers and rapists get out on less than half of that; who and what are they more concerned about protecting? There has, and the FBI vouch, never been one person who has died or been injured as a result of an ELF action. Now in this light-eco-terrorists look a lot like freeways, cars, Maxxam, Shell, BP, Monsanto, McDonalds, JTS, KB Homes, agriculture, industry, progress, capitalism/communism, and civilization itself. If it is eco-terrorists the FBI wants, perhaps they should b after these corporations and institutions.

We understand that voting has not and will never achieve anything meaningful or change anything fundamentally. If voting changed anything it would be illegal. So we have decided that it is up to us to defend the ecosystems being desecrated by civilized progress and its unending development and appetite for resource extraction as well as its economic and industrial expansion around the globe.

These actions were done in solidarity with all those engaged in sabotage and resistance around the world; Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Mexico, Brazil among others especially the indigenous struggle against the onslaught of modernization. The indigenous struggle and the 1st world anarchy movement has fused to form a cohesive unit; our struggle and plight for liberation is against the same beast.

The office building was also targeted as a statement against work and the horror of the cubical, which no animal should be exposed to, human and non-human alike. As well as to protest the Death Culture of alienation, boredom, cancer, and depression that convinces young girls to think of themselves as bodies, makes the only adventures for women in the mall, where romance is restricted to books, where fun is in front of a television, or behind the wheel of a car, where older folks are put out of sight and out of mind, where you can be out all day and never touch dirt or grass, where nobody will look each other in the eye, or tell each other how they feel, or that what they really want is to be loved and share themselves wholly with someone, where parents can choose the sex, stature, eye and hair color of their children in a lab, where 12 year olds hang themselves, where nanotechnology can rid the world of everything natural and replace it with machines, where electrodes are jammed in animals brains and they are tortured to researcher labs for the sake of selling products and curing the diseases civilization is manufacturing, where genes are added/extracted from cows so they will grow extra ribs, where cows are molested their entire lives for milk and cheese by a machine, where animals are bred to be mass murdered for a "quarterpounder," where ground water and fish are contaminated by Prozac, where the earth is ripped open and stripped bare, where ecosystems are terrorized and its inhabitants slaughtered, where the earth is looked at in terms of resources, where our food is built by geneticists, covered in poison and is itself poison, where people starve to death daily, where blackberries patches are paved over, where desire is childish, where everything gives us cancer, where Indians are killed for oil pipelines and where cars, clothes, things and ideas define people. Where we are repeatedly told from birth that we are not enough and that just one more mink coat, one more pair of Nikes, that we are one Hummer away from being happy, from bring fulfilled and feeling good about ourselves and having people love and understand us. We are pushed deeper into despair with every swipe of the credit card and fake smile we put on and go home and cry for no reason. Well we have every reason; our souls are being collected by ad agencies, Bankers, and Christian cults.

Psychologically speaking we are all on the verge of death, with no way out in sight. Suicide, alcoholism, and drug addiction are epidemic. Nearly everyone is on drugs be it Prozac, lithium, lattes, mochas, cigarettes, beer, pot, cocaine or chocolate. The world we have is empty and boring us to death. WE are forced to sell our souls 8, 10, 12, 14 + hours a day 5, 6 even 7 days a week for more than half our lives, not to mention school before that, they have us working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. Even resistance and subversive ideas can be marketed and sold to us, "Fight Club" is criticized because it is so mainstream and commercialized, but it is not the film nor the ideas in it that are not radical it is the people who watch it that render its subversive content harmless, they continue participating, obeying, working, buying, selling, voting, shopping, recycling, watching television and taking their pills. They don't do anything, don't demand more from their lives and are not selfish or misbehaved enough to make anything happen. Well, we are not all like that. Many of us are actually trying to change things in real ways that truly threaten the system and the means of doing so are in fact going to be illegal. Those in power are not going to allow actions that have the capacity to actually change things, threaten power and its legitimacy, the flow business or consumption, privilege, or the control and dominion of the earth and its inhabitants as well as and their seat at the top, not to mention the existence of such a seat.

We want to see full unemployment, we want to see zero voter turn out, we want to see smashed windows, ashes in place of offices and banks, freeways taken over by grass and building crack and fall. We want to see people creep out of their protective cages in their gated communities and really meet and talk to their neighbors, we want to see ghettos evacuated, cities abandoned, and weeds where geometric rows of genetically engineered corn once was. We want to see people kissing, and playing, laughing and dancing, we want to see gifts instead of competition, relearning how to be a part of nature, and become wild again. We want life, real life without distraction. We want to liberate desire and live hard and dangerously. We want loyal and individual autonomy. We want anarchy. Just like those wonderful women who altered the Breast Implants and Auto Mall billboards awhile ago, we want a world people love themselves and accept themselves and that they are in fact beautiful the way they are. To those brave souls, we would like to offer our deepest gratitude, and want you to know that you were the inspiration in the hearts of us old republicans (we voted simply for less taxes) to think more critically and broke us out of the paradigm of helplessness and loneliness of growing old with nothing to offer.

We want our entire lives to be filled with the sensation of all the immediate hopes, dreams and desires an individual feels when coming close to death. As seniors the reality of death is recognized as immanent and living moment to moment is all we have, we live in much the same way as that of children without time and focal constructs of past and future, but continuous moments strung together. We want to put the urgency back into life that parents, teachers, school counselors, pastors, unions, bosses, leaders, governments and the FBI have stolen from young people today and recognize that one day we are all going to die and to live accordingly.

We are through with the lies and empty attempts by the Left in communism, democracy (which is a form of government), production, and green consumerism. There is nor reforming, or greening up possible to save this system, no amount of electric cars, solar panels, water conservation, or recycling will save it, civilization is fundamentally flawed, rotten to the core and must be abandoned and stopped before it kills us all before it falls.

With sincere love,

Agent Emma Goldman and the Crimethine Senior Officers of the Earth Liberation Front. Practice random and senseless acts of sabotage.

For more information and FAQ visit the ELF Press office: http://www.earthliberationfront.com http://www.animalliberation.net
as well as: http://www.anarchymag.org http://www.insurgentdesire.org http://www.primivism.com; http://www.crimethinc.com http://www.indybay.org/centralvalley http://www.infoshop.org

(Note to Editor: print in full, we do not take attempts to misrepresent us lightly, you have been warned)


The Journal's Penne Usher can be reached at penneu [at] goldcountrymedia.com.