[Vision2020] Enabling terrorism

[Paul Rumelhart]

I'm replying to my own post because I forgot to mention the following:

The motorcycle manual was supposedly passed around by EF! members.  The 
link between the Unabomber and EF! looks dubious, at least from an 
official standpoint, regardless of what the FBI say.  That's not to say 
that they didn't quickly pass the manual around themselves once it came 
to light.

Paul

Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> I'd never studied Earth First! before, so I was curious.
>
> Here is an article describing a tree-spiking incident that resulted in 
> one man being cut badly and getting his jaw broken.
>
> http://www.iww.org/unions/iu120/local-1/EF/JBari11.shtml
>
> It's not clear if it was EF! or not, but it does seem clear that they 
> did advocate that kind of action with a manual and even tree-spiking 
> "workshops".    
>
> Here is a manual that was allegedly written by the Unabomber that 
> describes in detail how to fight motorcyclists in the forest.  It is 
> ostensibly a manual of what to do if enemy soldiers invade on 
> motorcycles, but that's obviously a thin cover for the real intention of 
> hurting motorcyclists by such means as spiked boards, pits, computer 
> monitors or TVs buried face-up just under the ground, and piano wire 
> strung between trees, all in order to stop people from terrorizing 
> chickens or for flipping off the author one too many times.
>
> http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/efdm/efdm.html
>
>  From what I've read lately, though, it is likely that the majority of 
> advocates of tree-spiking are targeting the machinery and not 
> necessarily the loggers.  So I guess I would file them under criminal 
> nutcases rather than terrorists, although the motorcycle manual leaves 
> me with a bad taste in my mouth.
>
> I do agree that the word "terrorist" is being watered down in it's 
> meaning, but I'd place the blame at the authorities for calling every 
> event that inconveniences them "terrorism".  For example, the two guys 
> that placed the advertisements for the "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" show 
> that caused the Boston authorities to freak out about a terrorist device 
> are not "terrorists".
>
> Paul
>
>
> Andreas Schou wrote:
>   
>>>  I believe that describes rather well what ELF, ALF and Earth First! do.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Whoa, whoa, whoa.
>>
>> Earth First? They've done *criminal* things in the past (largely
>> sabotage of machinery), but in what sense are those things
>> "terrorism?" They don't even spike trees.
>>
>> I'm really concerned about right-wing definition creep when it comes
>> to terrorism (c.f. "narcoterrorism"), because -- whether we like it or
>> not -- we have authorized military and intelligence responses to it.
>> I'm dead set against allowing military and intelligence responses to
>> vandalism, on whatever scale.
>>
>> -- ACS
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