'Eco-warriors' to confront space based terror? Lets hope so!
BBCNews: Eco-terrorism has become a serious US domestic security threat, a senior FBI official has told a Senate committee.
Counter-terrorism expert John Lewis said groups like the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front were now a law enforcement priority.
The threat posed by environmental and animal rights activists was serious and widely underestimated, he said.
He said eco-warriors committed 1,200 criminal acts between 1990 and 2004 causing millions of dollars of damage. Read more of this
DB: 1,200 criminal acts between 1990 and 2004? Is he serious? That is less than 100 so-called criminal events per year, which begs the question - where are the "Eco-warriors" and isn't it time they started to get it on? (oops, was that a BAD thing to say that will bring the forces of law and order down upon my head? Probably not, I don't think we have descended quite that far in the UK, yet)
I do indeed expect to see, hopefully, an increase in militant 'Eco-warrior' style activity in the coming years, starting relatively soon. It is not that I am in touch with any 'Eco-warrior' sleeper-cells (but how do I know for sure?) but more that the path down which the current US administration is sleepwalking demands it. Bush's policies are set to do for Eco-warriorism the same favor that they did for Al-Qaeda - generate a recruitment bonanza.
The latest developments relating to space based weapons - more precisely the public request from the US Air Force to Bush for permission to begin deployment - illustrates clearly that this particular US administration has zero regard for the planet/universe and has become not only the US's but the worlds most alarming security threat. The desire to Zap Earth with space based lasers and nukes (this is not fiction) is surely ample evidence that the beast known by the name Military-Industrial Complex is spinning out of control at an increasing velocity. Already billions of US taxpayer dollars have been spent on the technology - the project has a massive amount of momentum. Without mass protest - not excluding action by so called Eco-warriors - the real terrorists will soon have their way. If this happens, the world will be pushed a step nearer a catastrophe the scale of which cannot be overestimated.
The US administration understands that certain policy decisions it has made in the past, and continues to make, will sooner or later cause a domestic reaction, be it violent or not. They are preparing for that reaction. The Patriot Acts (and potentialyPrevention of Terrorism Act in the UK) will be used to suppress it, and in order to do so it is necessary for the Bush administration to begin the process of domestic conditioning along the lines illustrated in the BBC item above.
Counter-terrorism expert John Lewis said groups like the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front were now a law enforcement priority.
The threat posed by environmental and animal rights activists was serious and widely underestimated, he said.
He said eco-warriors committed 1,200 criminal acts between 1990 and 2004 causing millions of dollars of damage. Read more of this
DB: 1,200 criminal acts between 1990 and 2004? Is he serious? That is less than 100 so-called criminal events per year, which begs the question - where are the "Eco-warriors" and isn't it time they started to get it on? (oops, was that a BAD thing to say that will bring the forces of law and order down upon my head? Probably not, I don't think we have descended quite that far in the UK, yet)
I do indeed expect to see, hopefully, an increase in militant 'Eco-warrior' style activity in the coming years, starting relatively soon. It is not that I am in touch with any 'Eco-warrior' sleeper-cells (but how do I know for sure?) but more that the path down which the current US administration is sleepwalking demands it. Bush's policies are set to do for Eco-warriorism the same favor that they did for Al-Qaeda - generate a recruitment bonanza.
The latest developments relating to space based weapons - more precisely the public request from the US Air Force to Bush for permission to begin deployment - illustrates clearly that this particular US administration has zero regard for the planet/universe and has become not only the US's but the worlds most alarming security threat. The desire to Zap Earth with space based lasers and nukes (this is not fiction) is surely ample evidence that the beast known by the name Military-Industrial Complex is spinning out of control at an increasing velocity. Already billions of US taxpayer dollars have been spent on the technology - the project has a massive amount of momentum. Without mass protest - not excluding action by so called Eco-warriors - the real terrorists will soon have their way. If this happens, the world will be pushed a step nearer a catastrophe the scale of which cannot be overestimated.
The US administration understands that certain policy decisions it has made in the past, and continues to make, will sooner or later cause a domestic reaction, be it violent or not. They are preparing for that reaction. The Patriot Acts (and potentialyPrevention of Terrorism Act in the UK) will be used to suppress it, and in order to do so it is necessary for the Bush administration to begin the process of domestic conditioning along the lines illustrated in the BBC item above.
posted by exoplanet at 8:55 AM
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