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 [...]
Posted in Legal, Terrorism Rhetoric on May 24th, 2007
With all the “terrorism enhancement” news this week, I missed some good news (I know, it’s shocking, GNR can be full of so much “eco-terrorism” gloom and doom). But on Tuesday a federal judge defended the rights of activists to protest despite the “terrorism” rhetoric of the fur salon’s owners.
Schumacher Furs has been [...]
Posted in Legal, Operation Backfire, Terrorism Rhetoric on May 21st, 2007
A U.S. District Judge in Oregon just ruled that “terrorism enhancement” penalties may apply to environmental and animal rights activists in the “Operation Backfire” cases.
I’m sifting through all this now and hope to post more tonight. Stay tuned.
Posted in Legal, Operation Backfire, Terrorism Rhetoric on May 11th, 2007
They’ve been “terrorists” from day one. Since their arrest for a string of property crimes against corporations they believed were destroying the planet, a group of environmental activists from the Northwest have been relentlessly branded “eco-terrorists” and “domestic terrorists” in government press conferences, Congressional hearings and in the media. On Tuesday, though, in federal court [...]
Posted in Opposition, Terrorism Rhetoric on Apr 13th, 2007
Remember that publicity stunt, I mean, important work of American literature, that was released a few years back “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”? I was flipping through it today, and guess who comes in at number 23?
23. The Unknown American Terrorist
Members of the Earth Liberation Front have torched luxury homes, SUVs, and a [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Apr 12th, 2007
I can’t make this stuff up. “Grape thrower called a ’social terrorist.’” That was the headline of an article in the Detroit Free Press about a woman who threw grapes on stage at a meeting of the Detroit Board of Education. The board was voting to close 34 school buildings.
The president of the board said: [...]
Posted in Terrorism Rhetoric on Feb 2nd, 2007
If I posted every quote, every blog post, every web hit of activists being smeared as “terrorists” and “eco-terrorists,” I’d never get anything done (and you all would probably stop reading very quickly). I guess you get numb to it after a while, and in some ways get used to the scare-mongering. But this one [...]
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.