So-called ecoterrorism Archives
Since everyone is making such a big deal about 60 Minutes' segment on eco-terrorism -- an episode that played like Sen. James Inhofe's wet dream -- I feel compelled to re-post Sen. Jim Jefford's response last spring to the Senate Environment and Publica Works' Committee, back when the FBI came out and declared environmentalists the country's greatest terrorist threat.
Please read it.
No one here is endorsing violence in the name of the environmentalism and animal rights -- indeed, it hardly ever happens. But this campaign to protray enviros and animal-rights activists as pyromaniacal nutjobs is right-wing property-rights-crazed propaganda, pure and simple. It emerged as an idea almost exactly 10 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, right when Inhofe and his pals knew there would be attention paid to right-wing extremism in, specifically, his state. So he diverted the argument to promote what former Congressman Pete McCloskey, embarrassed about the current state of Republican leadership, calls a "property uber alles" philosophy.
Don't fall for it.
On a related note, the FBI has paid up and apologized for harrassing Josh Connole in connection with the Hummer-arson incident. Here's the story I wrote about it two years ago, when he got arrested.
UPDATE, 11/21: The FBI is reporting that a Maryland fire "could be the work a group of radical environmentalists," according to the Washington Post. These days, you can blame anything on the ELF, which the FBI reportedly considers "one of the country's most dangerous domestic terrorist organizations."
If that's true, we're pretty darn safe.
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