“The Green Scare,” Intercept, March 23, 2019,
While the government focused on al-Qaeda as the primaryįoreign threat, federal authorities-partly in response to government lobbying by corporations victimized byĮcoterrorists-considered ALF and ELF to be the primary domestic terrorism threat in what media dubbed the Green Reevaluated how it approached terrorism abroad and at home. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the U.S. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, ALF and ELF targeted animal research facilities and corporations for acts of Investigation, Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Washington, DC, FBI, February 6, Watson, Executive Assistant Director, Counterterrorism/Counterintelligence Division Federal Bureau of The FBI estimated that between 19, these two groups were responsible forĦ00 criminal acts in the United States that caused more than $42 million in damages. The far-left in the 1990s, resulting in the promulgation of groups such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) andĮarth Liberation Front (ELF). Special-interest extremism began to emerge on States was most active during the period between the 1960s and 1980s. x According to the FBI, far-left extremism in the United Eckstein, “How the Weather Undergroundįailed at Revolution and Still Changed the World,” Time, November 2, 2016. government and carried out a campaign of political violence. In the 1960s and ’70s, the Weather Underground declared warĪgainst the U.S. left-wing extremism was synonymous withĮither communism or causes such as environmentalism. Far-left extremism in the United States largely centers around the notion of correcting an injustice but is otherwiseīroad in its ideological catchment.
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