“Rights” don't look too promising do they?

“[Ron] Arnold is the executive vice president of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE). The self-described “Darth Vader for the capitalist revolution,” Arnold became famous in the early 1990s as one of the leaders of the pro-business, rabidly anti-environmentalist Wise Use movement. A former consultant for Dow Chemical, he is also the author of EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World of the Unabomber, published by the CDFE’s own Free Enterprise Press. He has served as an “expert” on the subject of “eco-terror” both on the news and in senate subcommittee investigations.

Arnold credits his group with popularizing the term “eco-terrorism.” In fact, he brags about actually planting the link between environmentalism and terrorism within the public consciousness. As Arnold told the New York Times in July of 2004, “We [CDFE] created a sector of public opinion that didn’t used to exist. No one was aware that environmentalism was a problem until we came along.”12

Of course, the sport of trying to peg tree-huggers as terrorists is as old as the environmentalist movement itself — far-right anti-semite Lyndon LaRouche was doing it as early as 1977. But with Arnold, we see a new, more focused and polished campaign emerging — one with a firm grasp on how to manipulate the media to their advantage with an arsenal of provocative soundbites and memorable catchwords.”

“As it turns out, Arnold is a man who knows quite a bit about the environment — at least when it comes to ways to turn out a profit from it. Although he describes his group as “a non-profit citizen organization” comprised of members “in rural natural resource industries,” the CDFE is actually funded by ExxonMobil, the world’s largest publicly traded oil company.14 Besides being responsible for some of the most stupendous environmental disasters in history, as well as having a hand in supporting brutal governments across the globe to support their oil interests, ExxonMobil has already “spent at least $8 million funding a network of groups to challenge the existence of global warming.”