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From the manufacturers of the 1950’s communist witch hunts, the 1960’s Nixon “Southern Strategy”, and more recently “intelligent design”, global warming deniers, Swiftboat Vets, Teabaggers, Birthers, Town Hellers, and know nothing parents opposed to President Obama’s “socialist indoctrination” of  their children, comes a new McCarthyite and racist witch hunt against “green commie ecoterrorists“.

From “The Paranoid Style in American Politics“ (1964), “The Power of Nightmares” (2004), to “In America, Crazy is a Preexisting Condition” (2009) – we’ve come a long way baby!

Van Jones, Obama advisor (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

The most recent manifestation of crazy is the orchestrated right wing and Glenn Beck/Fox media attack that forced the resignation of Obama advisor Van Jones. Jones, a black community, labor, civil rights, and environmental activist, was the real deal, a true grassroots progressive. But, putting expediency above principle, Obama caved in to a concerted right wing smear campaign and threw Jones under the bus. See: Taking the Movement Out of the Obama White House

For those who think it can’t happen here in liberal blue state New Jersey, check out the below NJ photo’s and consider this paranoid rant August 11, 2009 press release by the NJ Outdoor Alliance

DHS Reveals NJ  Based Groups Provide Cover for   Ecoterrorists
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
New  Jersey  Outdoor Alliance

Belmar, NJ –  -(AmmoLand.com)- NJOA E Action  Alert members continue to ask that we  keep them apprised of the animal  extremism in New Jersey, since the  movement targets fishing, hunting, trapping  and conservation  practices.

Yesterday I was forwarded an unclassified  “For  Official Use Only,” document. It is apparently from The Department of   Homeland Security alleging national groups (that also have operations  in NJ),  and a local New Jersey group, are providing cover for  “ecoterrorists.” I have  read similar reporting from two premiere civil  rights organizations;  Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law  Center.

Contents from  the document follow:

The term  ecological terrorists, or ecoterrorists,  refers to those individuals  who independently and/or in concert with others  engage in acts of  violence and employ tactics commonly associated with  terrorism to  further their sociopolitical agenda aimed at animal and/or   environmental protection.

From a security standpoint, the  activities of  the ecoterrorist movement are significant for several  reasons and should be of  interest to domestic security and law  enforcement officials. First,  Ecoterrorists have perpetrated more  illegal acts commonly associated with  terrorism on U.S. soil than any  other known group, including al-Qaeda and  radical Islamic  militants.

In addition, various groups that constitute  the  ecoterrorist movement [Animal Liberation Front aka "ALF"] are also   believed to interact, to one degree or another, with mainstream  environmental and animal-rights organizations and/or individuals.  Although none of the  mainstream organizations officially endorses or  participates in the illegal  and violent activities championed by  ecomilitants, some prominent members of  mainstream groups are known to  sympathize with the ecoterrorist  movement.

Mainstream  organizations with known or possible links to  ecoterrorism include the  following:

* •   Greens
• People for the Ethical  Treatment of  Animals (PETA)
•  The Sierra  Club
• National  Wildlife  Federation
• Audubon   Society
• Humane Society of the  United  States (HSUS)
• Friends  of the  Earth
•   Greenpeace
• Earth   First!
• Coalition to Save the  Preserve  (CSP)
• Environmental  Task  Force
• The   Frogs
• In Defense of   Animals
• New Jersey Animal  Rights  Alliance
• Fund for  Animals

[End NJOA alert]

Green is the New Red site here

Middletown, NJ - Congressman Holt's Town Hell

Middletown, NJ

Middletown, NJ

Middletown NJ - on the same the day Ted Kennedy died.

The "ladies" are holding LaRuche "Obama is a Nazi" literature

Lobbyists sign in at DEP - who were they visiting and what were they discussing?

If the White House can release visitors logs, why can’t the NJ Department of Environmental Protection release them? 

 According to CNN breaking news:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama plans to announce Friday that the White House will release its future visitor logs on a regular basis, two administration officials said.

The announcement follows a legal settlement with the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which had sued the administration for release of visitor logs, the group announced on its Web site.

Since taking office, the president has been criticized for refusing to release some of the logs, including those relating to health care and coal company executives.

The new policy will apply to visitor logs created after September 15 — not to previous visitor logs, according to an administration statement outlining the policy that CREW posted on its Web site. The future logs will be released 90 to 120 days after the meetings, and there are some exceptions.”

Last year, NJ DEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson denied a legal petition to bring transparency to DEP by disclosing who senior DEP managers meet with. Ironically, after leaving NJ to become EPA Administrator, Jackson reversed her NJ position and agreed to post her daily calendar and those of senior EPA managers on the EPA website.

In the wake of recent corruption scandals involving access to and political influence on DEP, that petition  was refiled and is again before current DEP Commissioner Mark Mauriello.  How Mauriello handles that request will be a test of the Corzine administration’s alleged commitment to transparency, open government and ethics reform.

Will press hold the Governor accountable on this issue and ask him about Lisa Jackson’s previous denial?  Will good government reformer Independent Chris Daggett engage the issue in the campaign? Will corruption buster Republican Chris Christie take a stand on transparency at DEP?

We’ll keep you posted.

[Update: The Union of Concerned Scientists has very similar reaction - read the UCS press release here]