Terrorism Scare Mongering

Obama a “Jihadist Vegetarian”?

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 […]

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Chef Calls Vegetarians “Terrorist Scum”

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 […]

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Community Service for a “Global Incident of Terrorism”

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” […]

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Customer Service Terrorism

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 […]

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Love the Property Destruction Hypocrisy

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 […]

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UK Letter Bomber Uses Animal Rights Messages as “Smokescreen”

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 […]

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Greenpeace Activists Using Civil Disobedience Called “Pirates,” “Terrorists”

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 […]

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BBC Nixes Muslim Suicide Bomber for “Eco-terrorist”

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 […]

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Red Dawn II: Patrick Swayze vs. Al Gore

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 […]

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Industry Group Says Mainstream Animal Advocates “Consorting With Terrorists”

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 […]

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