Green Scare

The term Green Scare is of environmental and animal rights activists used is based on the concept of the Red Scare, referred to the phases of the fear of communist infiltration in U.S. history. It primarily referring to the actions of the U.S. government against the radical environmental movement and animal liberation movement.

Presumably the term first fell in early 2002 in the context of a newsletter with information about prisoners that are attributed to the ELF ( Earth Liberation Front ). In relation to the United States is related to the Green Scare hear much of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, a federal law intended to prevent the use of terrorism against animal enterprises. Not the activists who made ​​punishable years by their illegal actions, but those that would have been moved within the framework of legal protest possibilities are targets of such enactment that is criticized on the part of the protest movement.

Specifically, the arrests of activists of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaign are referred to as outgrowths of a Green Scare. Similarly, reference is made to the so-called animal welfare Causa in the context of the term, under which some Austrian animal rights activists are accused of being members of a criminal organization.