The Green Scare is the federal government’s ongoing prosecution of environmental and animal rights activists. The name relates to the Red Scare of the 1940’s and 1950’s. It includes the government, corporations, and politicians labeling activists as “ecoterrorists” and national security threats and giving them long prison sentences.

您可以在丽贝卡·K·史密斯（Rebecca K. Smith）的文章《“Ecoterrorism”, a Critical Analysis of the Vilification of Radical Environmental Activists as Terrorists (PDF)

对许多人来说，它已经被“反击行动”、Shac7、埃里克·麦克戴维、罗德·科罗纳多、特雷·阿罗以及《动物企业恐怖主义法案》所代表。.

“仅仅因为相对较少的暴力行为产生了转瞬即逝的后果，就不能将改变当地社会、政治和经济结构的宏大而持久的努力定性为暴力阴谋。”

约翰·保罗·史蒂文斯大法官。.
全国有色人种协进会诉克莱伯恩五金公司案，458 U.S. 886, 933 (1982)

更新：
Operation Backfire defendant Rebecca Rubin will be sentenced on January 27, 2014
政府发送了简短回复
R.Rubin plea agreement