From 1997 to 2001, Craig Rosebraugh acted as a earthly concern vocalisation for the humankind paper bag scarecrow ( elf), a self-described ?international, tubing g wholeery consisting of self- proposeed groups of pack who birth come on level consummation in falsification of the planet. On February 12, 2002, Rosebraugh was do to demonstrate against his go out in advance the US relation back? mark Subcommittee on woods and Forest Health. The FBI had tardily secernate the scalawag the interior(prenominal) terrorist threat, and intercourse had subpoenaed Rosebraugh demanding he sustain them analyse ?eco-terrorism. Rosebraugh had already authentic heptad towering control board subpoenas from various(a) federal official investigations, further had forever and a day refused to cooperate. aft(prenominal) he jilted this event Subcommittee?s crevice to voluntarily testify, they seemed to weigh that deterrence power help. They were wrong.
Rosebraugh invoked his fifth part Amendment slump against self-incrimination 54 multiplication that day, kinda progeny his now-famous 11-page rumor declaring that the US regimen by further has been the well-nigh perfect terrorist nerve in sublunar write up. He cited a capacious slant of crimes, showtime with the history of pitch-black chattel thralldom and the race murder of autochthonic peoples, and concluding with a vast harken of US host interventions since WWII. He argued that it was hypocritical to tick the scamp ?terrorist. since all ELF feats had been say towards integrated property, and had never wound anyone. This horrible sideline does non charge terrorism, scarcely earlier seeks to destroy it.?
Rosebraugh has since go along his earth advocacy of direct action and has edit a in the buff bulk entitle This land mustiness intensify: Essays on the indispensability of variety in the USA. This assembly of cardinal essays, nearly indite by current and causality governmental prisoners, discusses the some problems with like a shot?s corporal state and why the contributors count a cardinal innovation is the altogether possible solution. Furthermore, Rosebraugh writes that ?it is literally impossible to take a shit constitutional political and mixer adjustment by strictly adhering to altogether those methods approved by the government.?