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...doesn't scare you or worry you? After a certain point, they look at my record and realize no amount of punishment will stop me from pursuing my goals. I generally get some kind of a penalty that I can live with, whether it's jail time or a fine that I refuse to pay. If you're afraid of the consequences, you can't really engage in civil disobedience...
...book, most of the campaigns that I've worked on have been nonviolent, with no property destruction. I don't believe in running around at night wearing ski masks. If we do something, we like to do it in the light of day. We want to really create some kind of a debate over the issue, not just to try to get even...
...Rushmore action happened right before Congress was supposed to take a very close vote on the acid-rain bill. That bill did pass shortly after that, requiring a 50% reduction, so that one was successful. Certainly the whaling campaigns have been successful. We've seen from experience that this kind of aggressive approach can be more successful than the insider, smoky-backroom approach larger environmental groups are using...
...living off of your work if you are constantly getting arrested? I have an office, and I have a room in the office. My rent is paid by the campaign. We have a kitchen, and we feed the staff, so I eat with the staff. We're almost kind of a quasi-military operation; we have about 25 people living together and eating meals at the same time. I don't actually pay myself...
...longest time you've served in jail? Four months was the longest. [Police] tend to look at my record and realize that nothing they do is going to stop me from continuing in this recidivist pattern. Every time I go to court, you always see their eyes kind of light up when they look at my arrest sheet, which goes all the way back...