Who Bombed Judi Bari

In 1990, the FBI bombed an environmental activist in Northern California named Judi Bari, and then framed her as saying she bombed herself and tried to blame the FBI. The backstory is in the Junk Bond craze of the early 1980's, Michael Milikan and others bought up much of the Redwood Industry in Northern California. The industry had developed sustainable forestry techniques, but the new corrupt junk-bond investors pushed to maximize sales, and thus encroached into "Old Growth" groves and overharvesting. The FBI was in bed with the Junk Bond folks and engaged in unethical cointelpro-style tactics against the environmentalists, who were often working with the unionized lumber and sawmill workers. In the national press, the pushback against the corrupt investors was mislabeled as "tree huggers" when really it was a protest against predatory corporate rape of Northern California communities. Meanwhile Pump and Dumpers such as Dick Blum (DiFi's husband) used phony environmentalism as a way to cash out on land deals.

One of the people involved in the Judi Bari case was Richard Held, who was mentor to Bob Mueller - and Held was responsible for branding "Earth First" as an "Ecoterrorist" collective. The whole idea of "Ecoterrorism" is an FBI fiction, and the FBI's historical misconduct in 1990 was never punished.