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"If a Tree Falls:" a fascinating, troubling look at the radical environmental group,

Posted by tinear on July 5, 2011 at 11:06:04:
the Earth Liberation Front. The director, Marshall Curry, formerly nominated for an Oscar for "Street Fight," centers the film on Daniel McGowan, a key figure in the group responsible for hundreds of acts against timber and mining companies but with several spectacular ones against the government including the torching of a Forest Service center near Oakridge, OR (that I many times visited on the way to hiking the area). Be forewarned: if you're seeking a film that makes a hero of McGowan, you'll have to look elsewhere. Curry carefully interviewed many of the detectives, property owners, and government officials that were key players and victims of the daring acts. In the end, I found no easy answers. When a company blithely cuts down 1000-year old trees, of which less than a few percent remain, and all legal remedies fail, what can a concerned person do? Of course, to grant one group the right to act outside the law would seem then to open the door to any other renegades, wouldn't it?
This documentary deserves far more distribution. The decision by the Bush Administration, and then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, to prosecute the Front members under newly enacted, and very severe, terrorism statutes, is yet another incendiary issue raised by the film.