Berkeley "liberal" authors smear book on Cointelpro victim Judi Bari

[UdoKier]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/02/01/DDG3HB2CFV1.DTL

Is the biographer of activist Judi Bari a tool of the right -- or just a skeptical liberal?

Edward Guthmann, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Kate Coleman knew she'd be opening a can of worms when she wrote a biography of environmental activist Judi Bari, but she didn't know how bad it could get.

A lifelong liberal, former Yippie, affirmative action advocate and John Kerry supporter, Coleman is finding herself labeled a "right-wing thug" and "character assassin" by Bari partisans for the book, "The Secret Wars of Judi Bari: A Car Bomb, the Fight for the Redwoods, and the End of Earth First!" (Encounter Books).

"She calls herself a leftist. That is a joke," says Darryl Cherney, the man who was riding with Bari in her Subaru station wagon on May 24, 1990, when a pipe bomb exploded, tearing through Bari's backside and nearly killing her. "I can call myself the president of the United States, but it doesn't make it true."


Some of the book's inaccuracies are detailed here:

www.ColemanHoax.com

[tinanator]

1. This is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE

What a filthy whore it would take to do this sort of job. Equivalent to writing a hit piece on Martin Luther King Jr, the lazy negro.
We need to slap this crap down just as badly as the FBI needs to cover up their unmitigated evil and responsibility with this sort of camoflage. SICKENING. And lets have a troll roll call while were at it, ya know thats inevitable. RIP Judi, you won.

[tinanator]

2. HEY! wheres the outrage?

if this doesnt gall every last DU'er, you might as well put on your Bush/Cheney buttons. Im serious.

[UdoKier]

3. Kick.

nt

[UdoKier]

4. Kick already.

nt

[SeattleRob]

8. Coleman's a Leftist....

Just like Zell Miller is a Democrat.

[DireStrike]

5. I don't know anything at all about this

But I'll kick it because somebody probably does.

[UdoKier]

6. I guess the Judi Bari story is a bit too old and too left for DU.

http://www.judibari.org/

Although I don't entirely agree with the methods of earth First, I do believe she was attacked and framed for the attack on her.

I'm glad her estate won the lawsuit against the FBI.

[hunter]

7. Pete Wilson, KGO San Francisco, had Coleman on his show yesterday.

http://www.kgoam810.com/viewentry.asp?ID=323365&PT=PROGRAM

This makes me sick.

[tinanator]

9. says a lot

if you care about your air water and natural environment, you need to keep a warm spot in your heart for Judi Bari, she was the MLK of environmental causes, and not because she wanted to be, but because the FBI made her that. This is a post mortem coverup/hatchet job so low on the scale of human behavior that new words need to be invented.