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To: tejek who wrote (239182)	6/29/2005 4:45:50 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 1578178

Hold to your talking points, lefty.

To: tejek who wrote (239182)	6/29/2005 6:25:08 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578178

Tejek, actually Paret's post might have some truth in it (I skimmed just the first part), and it should be investigated. We shouldn't dismiss a post as untrue just because the person is in the opposite party. I have a seen a situation where a highly respectful environmental community leader seemed to emulate behavior to instigate action that wasn't positive, in a systematic way over a group. He had a great deal of influence over many people, and his instigations really seemed as if he was doing it for some other reason, because it was out of synch with the cause of the group. My intuition made me wonder what's going on there? Probably unrelated but prior to joining the environmental program, he was working for a foreign govt's intelligence organization when he was living overseas. That in itself is not weird, in fact it is common since it's a requirement of their male citizens (if they have hightech skills they enter the intelligence ops and if they don't they enter the military). However, what was weird was the systematic way he started instigating a group of people in a respectable environmental group. He moved out of Calif and into a state notorious for ELF instigations, so maybe it's just the area that influenced him. I got off his mailing list because I only like positive environmental causes. Years later, I read an article on either CNN or Yahoo about how the US govt believed some people from foreign countries were coming into the US to instigate things in ELF. That certainly gave me some pause, and made me wonder - maybe the US govt is right on their suspicions? I don't know, but I tend to think it is worthwhile to investigate. The statistics on PETA should be investigated too - if it is being used by some subset group for reasons that don't match the organization's mission statement, then their donors need to know so funding stops. Again, am very liberal, so I don't say this lightly. I just think it's good to investigate it. Regards, Amy J