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 [...]
Posted in Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on Aug 15th, 2007
The genius of the Red Scare, and now the Green Scare, is that once you have completely demonized an entire group of people (either labeling them “communists” or “eco-terrorists”) you can slowly extend that scare-mongering in ever-wider circles. So first you brand someone who vandalizes an SUV as a “terrorist” (an absurdity in its own [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Aug 15th, 2007
Take the quiz! From a bizarre website put up by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency.
Hmm. I wonder how industry groups would fare.
I think it’s especially interesting that the mini terrorism tutorial lists “domestic terrorists”:
• White supremacists
• Anti-government groups
• Anarchists
• Separatists
• Single issue groups
But animal rights and environmental activists aren’t mentioned. Not even under [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Aug 14th, 2007
So we’ve heard over and over that so-called “eco-terrorism” is the “number one domestic terrorist threat,” according to the FBI.
Interesting, then, how the FBI’s “Top Ten Stories For the Week Ending August 10, 2007,” places the “number one domestic terrorist threat” at… number two. Second to a health care fraud case.
1. [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Aug 4th, 2007
It looks like Minx, a division of Marvel Comics, will be putting out a graphic novel on “eco-terrorism” shortly. There’s not much info about it available, except for a writeup at ComicBookResources.com:
“Burnout,” by author Rebecca Donner with art by Inaki Miranda is about Danni, a girl who moves to the Pacific-Northwest with her mom, her [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Jul 30th, 2007
Apparently making a series of death threats against researchers is “not necessarily a crime”… if you’re a born-again right wing Christian.
From Paula Pant at The Colorado Daily, “CU biologists get death threats”:
Last weekend more than a dozen envelopes bearing the image of skull and crossbones and containing letters threatening the lives of CU-Boulder evolutionary biology [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric, Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2007
Have you noticed how people are using “eco” to modify everything and anything now, but nobody seems to want to actually take a hard, critical look at “eco” issues?
Take this story from MSNBC. A hummer was vandalized in D.C. The owner doesn’t understand why (”We recycle at the house,” he said.) But the reporter, [...]
Posted in Legal, Terrorism Rhetoric on Jul 28th, 2007
Someone has published Final Nail.com (named after the infamous zine “The Final Nail,” which detailed locations of fur farms and encouraged activists to take illegal action against them). It lists addresses for not just fur farms but slaughterhouses, lab animal suppliers and trappers.
The Fur Commission had this to say about the original zine:
The Final Nail: [...]
Posted in Federal, Legal, Legislation, Operation Backfire, Terrorism Rhetoric on May 24th, 2007
Nature has an editorial in the latest issue against “terrorism enhancement” in the cases out West, and also more broadly against the “eco-terrorism” rhetoric we’ve been seeing in legislation like the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. This is big breakthrough, especially considering the source.
An excerpt:
But ‘terrorist’ is a word so debased and loaded by political use [...]
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.