Deep Green Resistance was founded by the authors of a book of the same name, a nasty set of activists named Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay.
They advocate a method known as “decisive ecological warfare” designed to destabilize and ultimately overthrow capitalism, industry, agriculture and civilization itself. Their unambiguous aim is to return the earth to a more “sustainable” position. In caves, presumably.
DGR calls itself an “above ground” eco-activist movement and tries to associate with many fringe enviro or aboriginal activist organizations. However, the book and its authors also call for parallel “underground” operations, which include isolated and covert operative cells. Their above ground arm seeks to support activist movements publicly, but their underground arm may recruit from these same groups.
Unlike previous ecological terrorist movements, they advocate for destruction of property and, if need be, assassination of the purveyors of industry. They justify it in that industry proponents are killing people already and as such are potentially viable targets. If innocents are killed, their excuse is that industry caused the deaths, not them. Their valued targets are those critical ties to infrastructure which could cause cascading effects to industry if impacted. These include power substations, pipelines, lines of communication, transportation hubs or water control.
Brian Lilley interviewed McBay on Byline in 2011 and wrote a blog post on the book.
They are currently known to be operating in opposition to the Northern Gateway, but were also present during the Rexton, NB anti-fracking debacle.
I would sure hope that the CSIS and the RCMP are monitoring this group and these people. But, after the events of Caledonia and High River, I’m not sure they are on our side.
I’d like to see pictures of the other two little wreckers. Just in case I might bump in to them at a party, y’know. Nice beard on this guy, by the way. I bet he uses product. Moisturizes too.
IMHO, having these mental cases write books such as Deep Green is a -good- sign. They’re getting desperate. They can feeeeeel the zeitgeist slipping away from them, and they’re gripping on tighter and tighter, and its still slipping.
Desperation is something I like to see in a Greenie/Commie watermelon. That freaked-out look in their eye as their realize they are no longer with the “In” crowd, and that the cool kids have moved on.
Ask, and Google will answer. Pictures of our brave watermelons.
http://moonbattracker.com/wordpress/?p=1964
They don’t look like much, I must say. I guess they’re too young for teh craaaazy to show up in their features yet.
Beware those that feel and become desperate. They will over reach and tend to go even further then they thought. Makes you wonder how desperate they will be and how dark their deeds will be.
I came upon a site critical of the DGR for their transphobia: “Decolonizing Yoga.” Given the name, I thought the site must be a parody of some sort, but in fact their mission in life really IS to speak for “queer people, people of color, disability activists and more in relationship to yoga.” “The Life of Brian” now seems more like a documentary than a satire.
They always assume that we will not shoot back.
I imagine it’s getting difficult to write satire and parody when you have unqualified Obama as president, Justin Trudeau contending for Prime Minister, and Liberals reelected in Ontario after blowing $6 billion on various scandals. And the president in waiting is the Sec State who presided over the middle east imploding, and Russia restarting its empire. Seriously, what can you write as fiction that compares to real life these days.
is that a polyester shirt he is wearing ?
To me it looks like either this or a Starbucks Barista. If the book doesnt sell, he will be back to Venti lattes before you know it. Or maybe he will kill a construction worker on the pipeline and get 3-5 years with time off for good behavior, then his second book would be a best seller.
Yes, please outsource all democratic decisions to a hand full of self appointed scientists and see how long it takes before they start throwing people in ovens. I say 3 years, max.
These weirdo’s are only perpetuated by government subsidies.
Lilly is being way too polite.
The would be environmentalist character, for he is not, goes on talking nonsense on constant basis. He can be qualified as an eco-fascist.
The guy goes on talking more and more bull. He is basically using weather to spread socialist/fascist and communist propaganda. Not that it is something unique. It’s done on daily.
Has he sold 12 books yet?
I must share this as well.
A brief google led me to this bit of precious Leftism:
http://www.decolonizingyoga.com/how-derrick-jensens-deep-green-resistance-supports-transphobia/
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/05/15/deep-green-transphobia/
Yes friends, so shameful it is that the Deep Green Resistance has supported [gasp!] Transphobia [swoon!] that Moisturizing Bead Product Dude, Mr. Aric McBay, has been forced to leave the movement and denounce his co-authors Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith.
““I left the organization at the beginning of 2012 after a trans inclusive policy was cancelled by Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith. Many good people and good activists left the organization for that reason.
I find these transphobic attitudes to be disgusting and deeply troubling, and it bothers me a lot to have any past association with people promoting transphobia.
For me, trans rights and trans inclusion are fundamental to building effective movements and to building a world worth living in. Speaking as the main author of the book that inspired the organization in the first place: they are most definitely my core values.
And transphobia–like racism and sexism and classism and homophobia–is a poison that those in power use to destroy movements and ruin lives. When faced with such poisons, who needs COINTELPRO?
Solidarity between movements is the only hope we have.””
Yes, Beard Product Man left because his two whacky friends weren’t whacky enough. Or more likely that their failure to bow to this week’s Central Party Fax was going to cost him money and brownie points with the mob.
Apparently, Jensen and Keith hold the unpopular position that trans people, (or mentally ill castrations fetishists as Kathy Shaidle likes to call them) “…are some sort of Post-Modern expression of liberal individualism and that trans womyn in particular are manifestations of patriarchy in disguise.”
Yes, that’s right. A guy dressed up as a chick who wants to cut off his little general is socially bad. But not because he’s mentally ill, not even because he’s misusing medical resources to feed his mental illness, oh no. Its because he’s a manifestation of the Patriarchy in disguise. A moment of hope for sanity, dashed. [sigh].
Confusion to the Enemy!
The rule of law is a great asset to environmental groups, as despotic governments have little trouble dealing with these pests.
Deep Green is ripping open the very umbrella that protects them.
At some point in our recent modern past, the communists decided that the vehicle to be used to kill
capitalism would be environmentalism – save the Earth crap. I forget what the other two
options were and where I read it. Not sure if it was Golitsyn.
Anyway, it’s now everywhere. You can order checks with logos about “saving the planet”, you can boycott GMO’s to feel special (about wanting everyone to revert back to subsistence farming), they want to stop fracking, they want to stop everything, except I don’t see any of them giving up their computers, cell phones,medicine, transportation, modern day apparel (made possible by the refining of oil).. everything that elevates us above the status of animals.
Sounds like they are describing themselves as domestic terrorists. And I think there’s a law somewhere about that. Lock ’em up.
One only needs to take a glimpse of these Eco terrorist androids and it becomes crystal-clear why we must NEVER give up our guns.
If I may suggest a pol that may go terribly wrong.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/vote-should-canada-eliminate-the-temporary-foreign-workers-program/article19326432/?from=19322845
The page to participate in the pol is here … I hope this is okay … I don’t mean to bogart the comments here.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/elimination-of-foreign-worker-program-will-be-on-the-table-in-2016/article19322845/
Just down a bit in the center of the page ….
I think the RCMP like to go after the easy targets,(High River gun owners) rather than people like this guy,who might actually be dangerous,and does have a good lawyer.
This line caught my eye:”He’s telling you why it is justified. He points out that if only Hitler had been killed as a child, things would be different.”
So, McBay advocates murdering children JUST IN CASE they might grow up to be a Hitler!(There WAS an old “Twilight Zone” episode about this, that was fantasy,McBay allegedly lives in the real world)
The guy is a f***ing lunatic and should be incarcerated in the nearest asylum for the criminally insane.
These folks don’t realize that violence begets violence. I am sure that an equally violent group will target them. They are providing propaganda that will be used in the successful recruitment for the Clan..Their worst nightmare will become a reality.
The pseudo-religious Helter Skelter types promoting a climate war are certainly disturbing. Occasionally, the crazies actually do carry out sabotage and violence. This type of group is too radical in mind and extreme in methods to create any real change. Cutting off energy supplies and targeting business/executives makes people loathe you, not follow you.
IMO, the ones you need to keep your eye on are the regulars at the “how are the going to make essential products more expensive and our lives less fun and free” meetings between the political class – activists, bureaucrats, academics and politicians. Their incremental approach to ‘deep green’ is more economically, democratically and, perversely, environmentally damaging. Think of the current state of affairs in green policies; energy poverty in the EU, unaccountable environmental agencies like the EPA, and the negative effects of using biofuel and closing downs nuclear plants. If you listen to UN, EU and EPA environmental heads you see that this is merely a good start for them.
So, those who think a small carbon tax nudging people and industry in the right direction is a reasonable compromise are deluding themselves. Nudge always turns to shove, the small tax will become a bigger and bigger burden that will be on top of, not a replacement, for the other energy market-mangling policies.
This is slightly off topic.
QR77 (Calgary) had a news item on the radio this week advising people in High River that they had until the 30th of June to make a claim against the rcmp for damage caused by the rcmp when they broke into private homes during last years flood. The item suggested that over 1000 claims have already been paid.
The DGR trio of luddite morons, using their own logic (stop them now before they do real harm), are excellent targets for pre-emptive drone strikes.
“I’d like to see pictures of the other two little wreckers. Just in case I might bump in to them at a party, y’know. Nice beard on this guy, by the way. I bet he uses product. Moisturizes too.”
Your comment reminds me yet again of the irrepressible P.J. O’Rourke. Just before the end of communism in Poland, he was in an underground bar in Warsaw talking to a “rage against the machine” punk rock fan.
In the midst of a conversation that ranged through the various and sundry ills of the establishment – whether East or West, communist or capitalist – PJ asked why no one wore a Mohawk.
The punk rocker replied, “We can’t get the hair product here.”
Terrorists are terrorists regardless of their purported “cause”. These imbeciles should be handled by law enforcement that same way as and other terrorist.
They are, after all, nothing more than the sharp end of the environment “movement” and it wouldn’t hurt to link other environmentalist groups with them. Just like not all nazis were SS, at the core they share the same philosophy.
From that site:
“One of the activists, Derrick Jensen, allegedly even believes those who destroy the environment should be summarily executed: ‘If it were up to me, all the people associated with the Gulf oil spill, which is murdering the Gulf, would be executed. That would be part of the function of a state,’ said Jensen.”
“SUMMARILY EXECUTED”…..”part of the function of a state.”
Derrick Jensen needs a sanity check.
In my experiences, I have found that hippies and eco freaks tend to be capitalists themselves. When selling something, they want top dollar; when buying, they offer little. Cheap or free.
Talk about wingnuts….this guy is a complete & total psychopath.!
The Science is settled. Dont believe me..?? UP against the wall..!!
Well past time for the RCMP to pick up all three of these goopohs before they actually get started with their madness.
I feel we should take groups like this and make them live the life style they are promoting.No cells,no TV’s,no comptuters,all natural clothing,nothing that was invented in the last 150 years,or nothing made from or using oil/gas in anyway,etc.Put them on 30 acres that they have to start making arable now,before winter hits,and don’t forget the huts.Come back to them in say,6 months,and see who is even left alive,with the sore backs,arthitic knees,and broken bodies hoping for a day when the temp goes above 0C so they only have to get enough wood for the night,not the whole day.
According to Charlie Rangel, God sent Barack Obama for America. One could take that in more than one way. Spoken in church, I would classify that as blasphemy.
It’s probably 100% bamboo, grown organically within a Brazilian ‘carbon sink’ forest.
The DGR may have studied methods of inflicting slow, agonizing torture with bamboo stalks, all the better to punish ECO infidels.
Shorter stint: Put them on ‘Naked and Afraid’ for 21 days.
all natural clothing i.e. naked.
No fire; no agriculture; no throwing of rocks or spears. How far do they wish to go back? No language?
Genesis was right. In the beginni9ng was the word
The three things that make us human:
Language
Fire
Tools (weapons)
These people are opposed to fire.
One might add agriculture as a fourth.
Covert and violent? Goes both ways. Just sayin’
They sound like Muslims for Mother Earth.
What, that’s just paranoid! Oh, wait…
“The threat of environmental crisis will be the ‘international disaster key’ that will unlock the New World Order.” – Mikhail Gorbachev (Monetary & Economic Review, 1996, p.5)
“So, those who think a small carbon tax nudging people and industry in the right direction is a reasonable compromise are deluding themselves. Nudge always turns to shove, the small tax will become a bigger and bigger burden…”
This is how socialism works, and this was what my grandfather and my wife’s grandfather found out in the early 1920s in the utopian Soviet Union. The bolos kept raising the taxes on middle class farmers until they could no longer pay and then the equipment and livestock were confiscated and finally the farm was confiscated for not paying the taxes.
Ah yes chutzpahticular, “SUMMARILY EXECUTED”…..”part of the function of a state.” This is what comes after the non payment of confiscatory taxes, or if you lucky you die doing hard labour in a reeducation camp.
The left always has the same solution.
Ken, the problem one faces is that the majority of people now living in N America have had very pampered existences where mention of the inexorable path into totalitarianism leads to looks of disbelief. Having had parents who fled communism I’ve prepared for a SHTF event for some time. Unfortunately, as the school system continues to churn out generation after generation of sheeple, the countries become easier and easier to take over.
I’d like to add that this is the same sort of degeneration that the Baader-Meinhof/Red Army Faction took. Started out as protesters, began to notice that most people(you know the type, work for a living then have the nerve to enjoy the fruits of their labour yada yada) these normal volks just didn’t give a rip, and so the protesters moved on to robbing banks and exploding bombs(some people call this terrorism) to advance their Leftist(always Leftist) agenda.
What gets me, is that they never self-evaluate or factcheck their basic premises between the protest phase and the *leap to active terrorism which is going to wreck their lives and the lives of innocents who just want to get on with their lot in short life we all have.
*I’m thinking they’re egged on by Russian honey traps or the like
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mi5-warns-british-officials-beware-3273487
I remember going to a Lina Wertmuller film fest when I was an impressionable kid, and saw “Love and Anarchy.” I remember being shocked at the end when the anarchist played by Giancarlo Giannini was hooded and beaten to death in prison. Not a pretty scene.
Now I find myself wishing it would happen to a lot of people. Paul Watson, Ingrid Newkirk, these DGR guys, and many, many more. And in a society that truly gave a damn about its own self-preservation it would happen. Sigh…
The organized Laughner Left, as represented by these people, are 5th columnists. They are population reductionists who champion extreme population reduction by means of denying the necessities of life.
A slow death for many many people. Privation, is the term.
I recommend SkyBlading. Lashing them to the blades of seized up wind turbines to hang in the wind and be perches for the very raptors that have been inconsiderately killed by the turbines these Envirocommies have inflicted on us all.
Who knows, it could be the next new reality TV fad to have independent camera-drones selling their feeds of the raptor feeds.
the *Beginning of the End for Environuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hftsk4gWqI
*it had already been cooling for a decade(10 years) when this vid was made and these echo-terrorists want to act on their unshakable belief in the falsified Global Warming meme
Like so many of them, you could hardly tell he was insane until he spoke.
You really need to devote a bit of time to reading into their website. It is like walking into an open-door institution for the crimanlly insane. Check out these random samples:
“When civilization ends, the living world will rejoice.”
“Men as a class are waging a war against women.”
“Gender is not natural…As radicals, we intend to dismantle gender…” (WTF???)
“..the impacts of peak oil start to hit somewhere between 2011 and 2015, resulting in a rapid decline in global energy availability…” (oops, forgot to keep updating the website)
“Resisters may go after particularly egregious targets—coal-fired power plants or exploitative banks.” (yes, we’re talking about organized terror here)
“When someone says, “A lot of people are going to die,” we’ve got to talk about which people.” (you can’t make this stuff up!)
There is so much more in this vein, no point going on, but the question has to be: how is it that scum like this are permitted to exist outside of prisons and lunatic asylums? Keep an eye on this one folks…there’s an even chance they’ll prove to be just as stuporously lazy and bonged-out as previous incarnations of this kind of group – but then again, that means there’s an even chance they’ll go whole-body Kaczynski or McVeigh.
Michael, they are so much crazier than they first appear.
http://phantomsoapbox.blogspot.ca/2014/06/trigger-warning-liberal-is-now-bad-word.html
Clearly a homicidal sociopath. His answers, if you can call them that, were nothing more than glib baffle gab and obfuscation.
That – is awesome. That is post-post-modernism! 😀
And it is deeply encouraging, because not only does it prove to any neutral party that their entire eco-worldview is based on a tissue of opinion, social theorizing, and plain old bad-craziness, but shows us that their self-important agonizing until they disappear up their own butts is tearing apart their little group from within!
I love it when the politically correct, in their relentless feverish hunger for adversaries, invariably turn on their own. Thanks Phantom, made my evening.
My letter to contact@deepgreenresistance.org:
“Hello, I am a former employee of two environmental NGOS and a devoted student and lover of nature. I have been reading into your website with great interest, and wondered if someone might spare a moment to address some questions I have regarding your statement of principles and goals? Thank you.
1) your principle goal appears to be the complete dismantling of technological society, with a concomitant reduction of the human species to relict levels. My question: how much experience have you personally, as well as your founders and all your membership, had with living directly off the land with zero support from any modern technological innovation? If the answer is “none,” can you please tell me why? And might I suggest that you at least try it before advocating it for the entirety of the human species?
2) you openly advocate the destruction of facilities such as power plants and banks in your website. Do you think it is wise to expose your intentions so openly on the World Wide Web? Can you not imagine this will draw the sort of attention to you that will eventually result in criminal convictions?
3) you seem to praise the IRA and the Tupac Amaru Resistance Movement at your website. The IRA conducted countless murders of noncombatant civilians; Tupac Amaru murdered eight transsexuals and held 72 embassy personnel hostage for four months. Do you advocate the murder of noncombatant civilians and transsexuals, and the taking of civilian hostages in furtherance of your ideology?
4) you speak at various points of the problem of “the paving of the planet” and claim that half of the world’s species (which are estimated to be somewhere around 9 million and as high as 50 million, with roughly 10,000 new species discovered each year) are threatened with extinction. My questions: do you not think that “paving of the planet” is an extreme – most people would say laughable – piece of hyperbole, as anyone who actually leaves their televisions and computer terminals can testify within minutes of leaving their homes? Does anyone in your organization actually take time from fund-raising, website design, lectures/meetings, etc, and go out of doors? Has anyone even taken the time to look at Google Earth to determine the level of “paving” occurring in nature? And would you please cite your source for the claim that 50% of species are threatened with extinction?
5) you state that “Gender is not natural…As radicals, we intend to dismantle gender…” Can you please explain to me what that might mean, and what achieving it would entail?
Thank you in advance for helping me understand the aims, and means of achieving them, of your group. I am sorry to say that at a cursory look, it appears to me that your group is as utterly alienated from nature as the most comfortably ensconced 24/7 video game addict, and that your entire movement is based on a tissue of mere opinion and social theorizing with little to no basis in the realities of society and nature. I hope I can look forward to a sincere, articulate and factual response.
Sincerely,
etc.”