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With Pim Fortuyn, there were no threats, just five shots that shook the world. The environmental lobby immediately tried to distance itself from the killer. "Our movement is non-violent to its core," one of the directors of the multimillion dollar organisation Environmental Defence stated. It was one lie too many. The press, looking to explain the inexplicable, published a series of articles about eco-terrorist activities. They unearthed a number of close links between radical activism and mainstream environmentalism. The end is no longer able to justify the means.