Terrorism Scare Mongering

Confidential Corporate “Risk Analysis” Says Placing Stickers on SUVs is Eco-Terrorism

Chances are, you have never heard of the Inkerman Group. I certainly hadn’t, until I began researching the web of faceless “risk mitigation” companies that help corporations identify threats to their profits. These companies producing briefing documents that identify business “threats,” including special interest groups, legislation, and even individual activists.

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Glenn Beck is Our Real-Life Lewis Prothero

For the most part, I think it’s a waste of time to get wrapped up in Glenn Beck’s nonsense. Being absurd and bombastic is this guy’s schtick. He has made millions doing it. When people start calling books “evil,” though, I think that’s reason to pay attention.

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Did “Eco-Terrorists” Cause the Gulf Oil Spill?

The oil spill in the Gulf is on track to surpass the Exxon Valdez as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. That doesn’t bode well financially for BP, and it doesn’t bode well politically for the drill-baby-drill crowd. So how has the far right responded? By trying to blame it on “eco-terrorists.” Rush Limbaugh, [...]

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Prior to Raid, Fur Farmers Labeled Peter Young’s Report a “Terrorist Handbook”

Peter Young’s home was raided the FBI this week, and the search warrant repeatedly mentions his name in relation to “animal enterprise terrorism.” In the last article we looked at how this Utah raid is, ostensibly, related to the investigation of an Animal Liberation Front raid at the University of Iowa. As with all of [...]

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Canadian Politician Says PETA Throwing a Pie is Terrorism

A PETA activist pied the Fisheries Minister of Canada, as a publicity stunt to draw attention to Canada’s seal slaughter, and now a member of parliament says the pieing should be investigated as an act of terrorism. The Globe and Mail reports that the member of parliament, Gerry Byrne, said: “When someone actually coaches or [...]

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McDonald’s Going Green(washing) With New Logo

McDonald’s has rolled out a new logo in France, replacing the iconic red background of the golden arches with green. Here’s some info from ZLOK design blog, and here is where I saw the story originally (although I can barely stumble through the French!), at TerraEco.net. There has been so much fluff news lately about [...]

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Avatar Labeled “Recruiting Film for Eco-terrorists”

Avatar earned $1 billion in two weeks, already making it the fourth-biggest-grossing movie to date. James Cameron said early on it would cost, and make, ridiculous amounts of money. He also said it has been a dream of his for more than a decade. According to industry groups and right wing pundits, though, the film [...]

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Pet Shop Protesters Shot–Will It Be Labeled Terrorism?

Animal rights activists shot at Pet Shop protest.

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Ron Arnold Defends Environmentalist Smeared as “Eco-terrorist”

Wow, here’s some news of the weird for you. There’s been an ongoing campaign against mountain top removal in West Virginia. Big Coal is playing dirty, and has been smearing opponents of their plans as “eco-terrorists.” The local press shamefully jumped on the bandwagon, calling Mike Roselle an “eco-terrorist” for civil disobedience and warning he [...]

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Canadian Police Ask Sea Shepherd Officer if He is Planning “a 9/11 or something”

Last year, Canadian police arrested Sea Shepherd’s First Officer, Peter Hammarstedt, and Captain, Alex Cornelissen. In Canada, it is illegal to witness or document the slaughter of the seals. They were charged with approaching, witnessing and documenting the killing. They were interrogated for 4 1/2 hours, during which time they said absolutely nothing, refusing to [...]

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