Eco-Terrorism...a growing American threat

Originally posted by xmotex
I don't think throwing paint on someone's fur coat, or vandalizing SUV's, is anywhere in the same league as blowing people up, no.

Honestly, do you?

I think they're idiots, and clearly fanatics of a sort, but I don't think property destruction is equivalent to actual violence against human beings. Not even close.

True. Call them "Terrorists-Lite"! The point is, they destroy in a stated reason as a threat against people; "This could happen to you and your family, if you do not stop...".

They HAVE injured and killed people, namely loggers doing their legal and honest jobs. Tree spiking (hammering a railroad spike into a tree at the point where it would be cut for felling) will catch the blade chain of a saw, ripping it from the hands of the logger, and fling it right back at him (HUGE "kickback"). That broken whipping bladed chain will, and has, torn up legs, arms, hands, bodies, and wrecked equipment. In that sense, they are just as guilty of murderous terrorism as any islamic nutcase.