Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Jan 4th, 2008
Gather round, boys and girls, for a new feature on GreenIsTheNewRed.com called “Fear-Mongering Friday”!
Of course, everything on this website is related to how fear of “terrorism” is being exploited to push a political agenda (namely, to single out environmental and animal advocates). For these Friday features, though, I want to start your weekend off right [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Nov 30th, 2007
Tom Toles has a great cartoon in today’s Washington Post, with a newspaper article that says: “Barack Obama doesn’t hide his enjoyment of peas and beans, fueling Internet rumors that he’s a jihadist vegetarian who will take the oath of office with his hand on a slab of damp tofu.”
Editor and Publisher explains that Toles [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Nov 29th, 2007
You know, when I started GreenIsTheNewRed.com I was actually concerned about the site being too much of a “specialty” publication. All “eco-terrorism” and civil liberties, all the time. Fine by me, but niche markets can reach an extreme (not that I have anything against magazines like Coin Collector, Air Traffic Management or Crochet World, mind [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Nov 17th, 2007
Looks like Lubbock, TX has made its mark on a map of “global incidents of terrorism.” While some cities may have gotten a spot on the map for, say, flying planes into buildings or murdering people, Texans have more of a backwoods flair.
From the Global Incident Map, this is listed under “General Terrorism News” and [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Oct 18th, 2007
More on the property destruction hypocrisy.
Apparently breaking stuff is funny and “truly American” as long as it isn’t part of, well, a (current) social movement.
From the Washington Post:
Sometimes truly American virtues arise in outlaws who — by dint of heroic but questionable endeavors — display the mettle of the national character.
For instance: [...]
Posted in Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on Oct 16th, 2007
Whenever a bulldozer is vandalized, an SUV is spraypainted or a children’s movie encourages compassion for endangered animals, business interests are quick to shout “TERRORIST! TERRORIST!” But property destruction out of self-interest, or purely reckless behavior, is apparently not much of a concern.
Check out this recent spat in Nashville, Tenn.
Rep. Rob Briley was drunk, [...]
Posted in Legal, Terrorism Rhetoric on Oct 14th, 2007
A man who sent letter bombs in the UK apparently used hype and fear around “eco-terrorism” as a “smokescreen.” When news of the letter bombs first broke back in January, there was a lot of talk about the fact that one of the envelopes had the words “Dr Barry Horne, RIP” (the name of a [...]
Posted in Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on Sep 6th, 2007
The Seafarers’ International Union, part of the AFL-CIO and the largest North American union of its kind, is pushing the Canadian government to label Greenpeace activists as “terrorists” and hit them with stiff penalties for non-violent civil disobedience.
Greenpeace protesters boarded a ship carrying coal and used non-violent civil disobedience to draw attention to global [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Aug 22nd, 2007
From The Observer:
The BBC has abandoned plans to screen a fictional terrorist attack by Muslim suicide bombers in the primetime drama Casualty after internal clashes over whether the highly sensitive subject matter would cause offence.
BBC drama executives were keen to push the storyline and may even have started filming, a source close to the production [...]
Posted in Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on Aug 17th, 2007
The title of this site, and the term “Green Scare,” of course refers to the similarities between two eras of government repression: the government witch hunt for suspected communists, during the Red Scare, and the government witch hunt for suspected “eco-terrorists,” during the Green Scare. I think the comparison is useful in talking about these [...]
The War on Terrorism has come home. Corporations and politicians are labeling activists "eco-terrorists" and national security threats. Think red-baiting, with a green twist. Here you'll find original reporting and analysis of the Green Scare, and history repeating itself.