[Vision2020] Are you enabling extremism?

[Kai Eiselein, editor]

Ted, since the ALF opposes hunting it can be considered an extremist environmental group. It has, in fact, worked in tandem with ELF.
I stated "Anyone who is willing to torch a building is willing to kill anyone inside."
I also stated " 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 assupportive of eco-terrorism. Any belief, taken too far, can result in fanatical zealots willing to kill anyone opposed to their viewpoint."
Nowhere in my post did I state anyone did kill, just the willingness to do so as evidenced by their actions.
I'm not the one pulling the switcheroo, you are.


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ted Moffett 
  To: Kai Eiselein, editor 
  Cc: Andreas Schou ; Paul Rumelhart ; Vision2020 
  Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 4:48 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Are you enabling extremism?



  Kai et. al.

  I think your focus on environmental terrorism is off the main topic of this thread, but I will pursue your line of reasoning just a bit, before asking you to address my point, made earlier in this thread, that was on topic. 

  I am asking for your documentation of deaths committed by environmental groups in "terrorist" attacks, because I question the veracity of this claim that you made.  The ALF is not an environmental group.  The Earth Liberation Front is an environmental group. 

  I have not found any documentation that the Earth Liberation Front has killed anyone in a terrorist attack.

  So I am still asking for your documentation....Given you made the claim, you should have an example at hand.  Asking someone else to prove your point with evidence seems rather lame.

  If you cannot provide it, then just say you cannot provide it...You may have good evidence to support your claim.  Please offer it.

  However, if you really want a logical and fact based dialog on the critical focus of this thread, clearly stated by Paul when he started this thread, regarding religious belief promoting extremism, then respond to my post where I raise the specific example of people who promote the idea that the Bible or the Koran is the literal absolute word of the creator of the universe, with very questionable evidence this is true, and act on this belief in extreme ways.  I can list numerous examples of those who insist the Bible or the Koran contains the literal word of the creator of the universe, and use this belief to justify numerous ethical harms: oppression of women, prejudice against gays, corporal punishment of children, human rights violating applications of the death penalty, to name a few. 

  It seems you are trying to "bait and switch" in this thread, by focusing on what you call "environmental terrorism," without being willing to document your implication that deaths occurred in such attacks, while ignoring my point about terrorism resulting in deaths committed by religious extremists who use their absolute belief in the literal word of God as contained in the Bible or Koran, as justification. 

  I will document my claim that people who insist the Bible or the Koran is the literal word of the creator of the universe, sometimes follow this belief resulting in extreme terrorist acts... Or have you forgotten 9/11? 

  Ted Moffett



   
  On 10/1/07, Kai Eiselein, editor <editor at lataheagle.com> wrote: 
    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
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      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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