Children’s Movie Called “Soft Core Eco-terrorism for Kids”
May 1st, 2006 by Will Potter
As if they hadn’t sunk low enough already, key players in the Green Scare are now going after a children’s movie.
The teenage characters in Hoot, which opens this Friday, fight to end a development project that threatens a population of endangered owls.
Cybercast News Service put out a press release, er, article, calling the film “soft core eco-terrorism for kids.” The teens “trespass, rip up surveyors’ stakes, place alligators in portable toilets” and commit other dastardly “eco-terror” crimes.
CNS turned to Green Scare pioneer Ron Arnold, who “had not yet seen the film when interviewed” by the author:
“Hoot’s so-called harmless ‘mischief’ is training a generation to look cute while burning homes and cars and stores. Eco-terrorism is serious. Eco-terrorism is arson and pipe bombs and hate that hurts people and destroys lives,” Arnold said.
The author uncovered disturbing evidence of “eco-terrorism” seeping into the minds of unsuspecting youth:
A seven-year-old girl who identified herself as Dillon noted that “it was a fun movie” and said she learned that “it’s not good to kill animals.”
Talk about a national security threat!
I wonder if lawmakers will go after publications like The Philadelphia Inquirer that have published glowing reviews of the movie (and thus endorsed “eco-terrorism) using the Animal Enterprise Protection Act. That’s essentially what happened to the SHAC 7
Ron and CNS have a point, though. But let’s not stop with Hoot. How dare any Hollywood film encourage children to take a stand and save cute little animals? After we run Hoot out of the theatres, we should take our torches to any movie store that rents that video training guide for the Animal Liberation Front, Free Willy.
As the masterminds behind this Green Scare would surely agree, we should be teaching children about freeing markets, not freeing Willy.
It seems that we, the inhabitants of this world are entirely ignored for the purpose of protecting the number one cause of all pain in this world: money.
The government, the police, and the FBI now exist primarily to protect profits.
I like how the police and firemen can beat the shit out of somebody in a protest or even shoot them (Kent State) and we can’t throw a rock at McDonalds.
The main problem in our society, is that we let people control us. Without our part, there wouldn’t be the ongoing climb into fascism that our country, and the world (thanks to the globalization of western civilization’s [in]famous capitalism and the “free market”) Our mistake was letting people tell us what to do and how to act for too long. Of course, though, we’ve been conditioned to this (through the pacification of our ideas). I believe peace is necessary; but in the wake of civilian peace, and corporate domination(which of course is allowed to exist through civilian peace).
We allow our government to install totalitarian dictators and aid fascist governments in South America, and all over the world to keep trade cheap and convenient, so Dick Cheney’s stock can go up a quarter of a point. And this is tolerated. But any form of civilian disobedience to this extremely wrongful, shameful worshiping of money, is gunned down with martial law.
What is wrong with us?
Why aren’t we all gathering together to end this?
Are we that conditioned, and docile, to think the kind of abuse we take is acceptable?
John, I couldn’t agree more. As an activist and a parent, I feel that is imperative that we teach our children about the value of life and resources. It’s sickening that $$ is more of a priority of our so-called leaders. It is up to us and the new generation to stop this and to literally change the world. We can do it!
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