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McGowan’s first ELF assignment involved assisting as a lookout while Ferguson and other ELF members burned down an Oregon timber plant. “I didn’t have a problem with what I was doing” at the time, McGowan acknowledges in an interview. ELF adopted a variety of clandestine techniques to avoid exposure, operating as autonomous cells without any central leadership or coordination. Other ELF arson targets included a horse slaughtering plant, an SUV dealership and a $12 million Vail, Colo., ski lodge, which represented ELF’s most visible act of “economic sabotage.”
As ELF actions escalated, law enforcement agencies stepped up their activity as well, with the FBI categorizing the activists as “domestic terrorists” under Bush-era legislation, and the investigation become the largest domestic terrorism case in the U.S., spearheaded by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdall.
After burning down an Oregon tree farm, McGowan discovered that ELF had been misinformed about the target. Another fire set at the University of Washington got out of control, destroying a large amount of property, and McGowan began re-evaluating his involvement with the group, eventually withdrawing from ELF and moving back to New York. But federal agents continued to work the cases he’d been involved with, as well as other fires subsequently set by ELF.
Once they’d compiled charges against Jake Ferguson, investigators convinced him to help incriminate other current and former ELF members. Four years after leaving the group, the FBI arrested McGowan after Ferguson caught him admitting to the Oregon arsons on a surveillance tape. McGowan’s sister bailed him out, and he was put on house arrest for seven months as the feds prepared their case for trial, after McGowan admitted his involvement in two ELF arsons, for which he faced life in prison under anti-terrorism statutes.
Interviews with McGowan, who’s rather shy and still seems a bit bewildered by his actions and the charges against him, form the backbone of the documentary, supported by location footage, law enforcement video, animated sequences re-creating some of the ELF actions and additional interviews with McGowan’s former acquaintances, ELF accomplices and law enforcement representatives.
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Curry and co-editor Matthew Hamachek assemble the wide-ranging material into an informative, compelling story line, although details about McGowan’s upbringing and early years in the environmental movement slow the narrative down and some of the footage of McGowan puttering around his sister’s apartment proves too mundane to hold much interest. Watch If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Movie Online
McGowan’s first ELF assignment involved assisting as a lookout while Ferguson and other ELF members burned down an Oregon timber plant. “I didn’t have a problem with what I was doing” at the time, McGowan acknowledges in an interview. ELF adopted a variety of clandestine techniques to avoid exposure, operating as autonomous cells without any central leadership or coordination. Other ELF arson targets included a horse slaughtering plant, an SUV dealership and a $12 million Vail, Colo., ski lodge, which represented ELF’s most visible act of “economic sabotage.”
As ELF actions escalated, law enforcement agencies stepped up their activity as well, with the FBI categorizing the activists as “domestic terrorists” under Bush-era legislation, and the investigation become the largest domestic terrorism case in the U.S., spearheaded by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Engdall.
After burning down an Oregon tree farm, McGowan discovered that ELF had been misinformed about the target. Another fire set at the University of Washington got out of control, destroying a large amount of property, and McGowan began re-evaluating his involvement with the group, eventually withdrawing from ELF and moving back to New York. But federal agents continued to work the cases he’d been involved with, as well as other fires subsequently set by ELF.
Once they’d compiled charges against Jake Ferguson, investigators convinced him to help incriminate other current and former ELF members. Four years after leaving the group, the FBI arrested McGowan after Ferguson caught him admitting to the Oregon arsons on a surveillance tape. McGowan’s sister bailed him out, and he was put on house arrest for seven months as the feds prepared their case for trial, after McGowan admitted his involvement in two ELF arsons, for which he faced life in prison under anti-terrorism statutes.
Interviews with McGowan, who’s rather shy and still seems a bit bewildered by his actions and the charges against him, form the backbone of the documentary, supported by location footage, law enforcement video, animated sequences re-creating some of the ELF actions and additional interviews with McGowan’s former acquaintances, ELF accomplices and law enforcement representatives.
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Curry and co-editor Matthew Hamachek assemble the wide-ranging material into an informative, compelling story line, although details about McGowan’s upbringing and early years in the environmental movement slow the narrative down and some of the footage of McGowan puttering around his sister’s apartment proves too mundane to hold much interest. Watch If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Movie Online
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