Fronting for corporate America, right wing groups like the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Wise Use, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and their lobbyists and PR flacks claim otherwise in their relentless war on the greens, backed by federal and state authorities calling saving the earth `eco-terrorism` and managing to get activists like Daniel McGowan sent to prison.
Of so-called ‘eco-terrorism’ in his case, a term believed coined by Ron Arnold, executive director of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (CDFE), a radical right wing group established on July 4, 1976 ‘to continue (the) Revolution of liberty, free enterprise and individual initiative….without hindrance by government.’