On 2003-08-25, Major Variola (ret.) uttered:
As expected, animal and environmental activists are now being called terrorists.
In many cases, that's an exaggeration. In some, it isn't. Animal rights activists don't normally resort to the kinds of violence, say, anti-abortionists do, but they do systematically disrupt certain sectors of peaceful commerce, like the fur industry. That sort of terror is focused enough not to cause the wider public to react, but it does hurt you very, very badly if you've pegged your livelihood to said industry. At least around these parts some people have actually met personal bankruptcy because of the interference. Few sane people would go with the current anti-terrorism legislation, even when it's meant to counter real terror. Personally I'd rather see some anti-gun use legislation rolled back, so that you could teach your friendly ALF representative a lesson if he's dumb enough to meddle with your foxhouse. -- Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111 student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2