{"id":7693,"date":"2018-08-20T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T02:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=7693"},"modified":"2018-09-09T18:54:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T02:54:24","slug":"joseph-dibee-arrested-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2018\/08\/20\/joseph-dibee-arrested-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Dibee Arrested in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joseph Dibee #812133
\n<\/span><\/strong>Multnomah County Detention Center
\n11540 NE Inverness Drive
\nPortland, OR 97220
\nUSA<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Joseph Dibee was arrested in August 2018. He is facing several charges, including conspiracy to commit arson, related to actions claimed by the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front between 1996 and 2001. Joseph has pleaded not guilty. Learn more about his case\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(DO NOT write about his case or reference anything illegal.)<\/em><\/p>\n

August 10, 2018<\/div>\n
From Lauren Regan, Director and Senior Staff Attorney, Civil Liberties Defense Center<\/div>\n
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Today the US Department of Justice announced that it had \u201capprehended” Green Scare defendant Joseph Dibee after indicting him 12 years ago. \u00a0Dibee was allegedly arrested in Cuba. \u00a0In 2006, a federal grand jury in Oregon indicted Dibee and 12 coconspirators for acts of economic sabotage by the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front. \u00a0The groups caused more then $45 million in damages to horse slaughterhouses and federal horse capture facilities, old-growth timber companies and a ski resort encroaching on Canadian Lynx habitat, to name a few of the operations targeted between 1995 and 2001. \u00a0One of the co-conspirators, Jacob Ferguson, from Eugene, Oregon, volunteered himself to become an informant for the FBI and agreed to wear a wire and travel around the country attempting to entrap his co-conspirators. Without Ferguson\u2019s cooperation with the State, it was unlikely the FBI would have solved any of these cases.<\/p>\n

As the cases proceeded over the years, the codefendants broke into two groups: \u00a0those who chose not to cooperate with the state and received approximately 18 additional months of prison time, including Jonathan Paul, Daniel McGowan, Joyanna Zacher, Nathan Block (and since the original case other non-cooperating Green Scare defendants include Marius Mason, Rebecca Rubin, and Justin Solondz). \u00a0Those who became informants for the State included Jacob Ferguson, Kevin Tubbs, Stanislas Meyerhoff, Chelsea Gerlach, Darren Thurston, Lacey Philabaum, Suzanne Savoie, Jennifer Kolar, Briana Waters (at her 2nd trial after being snitched on by Philabaum and Kolar at her 1st trial), and Frank Ambrose.<\/div>\n
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There were two individuals who were indicted but were not found within the U.S to be prosecuted, Joseph Dibee and another person. \u00a0Now, 12 years later, and under the authoritarian Trump regime, Mr. Dibee faces prosecution in the District of Oregon, the Western District of Washington and the Eastern District of California.<\/div>\n
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As usual, the State is using terrorism rhetoric to attempt to bias the judicial process against individuals accused of property damage crimes that were not intended and did not cause harm to any humans or animals. \u00a0In fact, the ELF and ALF credo according to their website states that they are “a nonviolent campaign with activists taking all precautions not to harm any animal (human or otherwise). Their intention is to cause economic damage to those who profit from misery and exploitation of animals as well as the destruction of the environment.<\/div>\n
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Check the CLDC website, cldc.org<\/a>, for updates as they become available.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMuch of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then start to do it without being asked. You\u2019ve already done this, haven\u2019t you? Stop. Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.\u201d Timothy Snyder, Harvard professor and Holocaust historian.<\/div>\n
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Assert Your Rights, We\u2019ve Got your Back<\/b><\/div>\n
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The Civil Liberties Defense Center
Lauren C. Regan, Attorney at Law
Executive Director<\/p>\n

1430 Willamette St. #359<\/div>\n
Eugene, Oregon 97401<\/div>\n

541.687.9180 phone
Email:\u00a0lregan@cldc.org<\/a>
WWW.CLDC.ORG<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph Dibee #812133 Multnomah County Detention Center 11540 NE Inverness Drive Portland, OR 97220 USA Joseph Dibee was arrested in August 2018. He is facing several charges, including conspiracy to commit arson, related to actions claimed by the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front between 1996 and 2001. Joseph has pleaded not guilty. Learn … <\/p>\n

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