Terrorism Scare Mongering

Take the “Terrorism Quiz”

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 […]

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Priorities, Priorities

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. Houston: Six […]

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New Comic Book on “Eco-terrorism” From Marvel Imprint

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, […]

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Death Threats to Biologists “Not Necessarily a Crime”

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 […]

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“Eco-terrorism” a Response to “Eco-Anxiety,” Say “Eco-Therapists”

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, […]

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New Website Lists Addresses for Animal Industries

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 […]

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Fur Shop Owners Rebuked in Lawsuit Against Protestors

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 the […]

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Greens are “#1 Domestic Terrorism Threat”… After Michael Moore

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, […]

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“Grape thrower called a ‘social terrorist'”

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 […]

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“Calling yourself an animal rights activist is a glorified way of defining yourself as a domestic terror threat.”

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 […]

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