[Vision2020] Are you enabling extremism?

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Kai,

If my memory serves, most of those arsons took place at night, when the 
buildings were unoccupied.  You make a big leap when you say "Anyone who is 
willing to torch a building is willing to kill anyone inside."  If that were 
the case, wouldn't they burn them down in the daytime when labs and 
businesses were occupied?

I'm not condoning or defending arson or the tactics you describe below.  I 
just don't agree with your premise.  Just because someone commits some bad 
acts does not mean they're willing to kill.

Sunil


>From: "Kai Eiselein, editor" <editor at lataheagle.com>
>To: "Ted Moffett" <starbliss at gmail.com>
>CC: Vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Are you enabling extremism?
>Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:16:47 -0700
>
>Ted,
>I can't believe you've never heard of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) or 
>the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), both of which engage in attacks against 
>entities they disagree with.  Perhaps you've forgotten the string of arsons 
>that took place from the 90's and into 2001 in Oregon and Washington in 
>which the ELF claimed responsibility? Or the arrests in 2006 of several 
>members of ELF in connection with those arsons? Anyone who is willing to 
>torch a building is willing to kill anyone inside.
>I must have struck a nerve, since you are making demands rather than 
>engaging in debate. From your posts about global warming, typhoons and 
>such, I know you are perfectly capable of finding information on the web. 
>Quit feigning ignorance/stupidity, it doesn't become you.
>I'll not waste my time digging up information that has been well publicized 
>and is readily available  just because you demand it.
>Debate is the art of point-counter point, Ted. Not demand, counter demand.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Ted Moffett
>   To: Kai Eiselein, editor
>   Cc: Andreas Schou ; Paul Rumelhart ; Vision2020
>   Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:19 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Are you enabling extremism?
>
>
>
>   Kai et. al.
>
>   Will you please offer examples of what you call "eco-terrorism," engaged 
>in by what you described as "on the left are extremist environmental 
>groups," that have resulted in deliberately caused deaths by "fanatics 
>willing to kill," as you phrased it, such as a terrorist bombing (a road 
>side IED, or a car bomb, truck bomb, or bombing of a train or bus, etc.) of 
>civilians would inflict?  This is a very serious charge, that should not be 
>made casually..  I am not saying there are not examples of this, just 
>asking you to provide well founded empirical documentation.  Please provide 
>the name of the environmental group, document their affiliation with what 
>you termed "the left" (please explain how you define "the left," and why 
>they represent "the left," rather than just "left field"), and the date and 
>details of the terrorist attack.
>
>   Ted Moffett
>   ----
>   Kai wrote:
>
>      Most notably on the left are
>     extremist environmental groups that engage in eco-terrorism. Using 
>Dawkins
>     line of reasoning, anyone who is environmentaly friendly could be seen 
>as
>     supportive of eco-terrorism.
>     Any belief, taken too far, can result in fanatical zealots willing to 
>kill
>     anyone opposed to their viewpoint.


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