Terrorism Scare Mongering

The New McCarthyists Are Naming Names — But Hiding Their Own

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, I thought I’d dig up a bit more on the heroic individuals out to protect the New York Stock Exchange from “terrorists” like the Teamsters, Greenpeace and the Communication Workers of America.

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Green-Scaremongers Place Anonymous New York Times Ad

An anonymous ad that ran in The New York Times on Friday praised the conviction of activists on “terrorism” charges, and signaled that the Green Scare is only just beginning.

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Children’s Movie Called “Soft Core Eco-terrorism for Kids”

As if they hadn’t sunk low enough already, key players in the Green Scare are now going after a children’s movie. The teenage characters in Hoot, which opens this Friday, fight to end a development project that threatens a population of endangered owls.

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FBI on “Micro-Terrorism”

Labeling vandalism and theft as “terrorism” is quite a stretch, even for this administration. So the FBI PR shop has come up with a new spin: “micro-terrorism.”

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“Vegetarians: our counter-terror stealth force”

I tore this headline straight from Democracy Arsenal because, well, how could I not? Lorelei Kelly, “a carnivore with constant remorse,” had a great post linking bio-terrorism concerns to animal welfare. About 75 percent of emerging diseases come from animals, Kelly reports, and dangerous microbes have become “generalists” that bounce around between animals and humans. […]

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Cooking the Terrorism Books

National security wonks — on the liberal side at least — are starting to note that labeling political vandalism and other non-violent crime as “terrorism” waters down the meaning of the term. The Center for Defense Information says that too much use of the T-word is skewing numbers from the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center. In […]

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