I'm Not Terrified, Did I Miss Something?\r\n<\/p>
Author: Stephen\r\nDeVoy<\/i><\/p>\r\n
Eleven activists have been arrested on terrorism charges. Given the\r\nFBI's history of framing dissidents and activists, I don't believe a word of the\r\nindictment. Nonetheless, I am confused about something. You see, the\r\nmedia and the FBI are telling me that the list of events in the indictment\r\nconstitute a reign of terror. I don't know about you, but I was unaware of\r\nmost of these events and after reading about them, I can tell you with no doubt\r\nthat I do not feel terrorized in the least by them.<\/p>\r\n
This leads me to an old observation with a new twist. If an empty\r\ngovernment building used to oppress horses burns in the forest and no one is\r\nthere to see it, was anyone terrorized? If terrorism is an act of violence\r\nagainst a civilian population with the aim of forcing or coercing political\r\nchange, I cannot imagine how burning empty government buildings in remote forest\r\nareas could possibly be imagined to achieve such goals. If the arson of a\r\nlumberyard is terrorism while blowing up civilian houses in Pakistan by CIA\r\nlaunched missiles is not terrorism, then is Bush a genius and Einstein a moron?<\/p>\r\n
When our children go to bed at night, do you think they shutter in their beds\r\nafraid that some green anarchist boogieman will burn down a remote and empty\r\nforestry building in rural Oregon? My guess is that the average American\r\nchild is more anxious about not being left behind when the rest are sent to Iraq\r\nor Afghanistan or Iran to die in another senseless war. I'm more terrified\r\nof Karl Rove's corrupt mind than I am of the Earth Liberation Front. If\r\nthe allegations against ELF are true, Donald Rumsfeld has killed more human\r\nbeings than ELF has killed lumber splinters. If ALF freed as many animals\r\nas Rumsfeld has murdered humans, there would be a monkey swinging from every\r\ntree.<\/p>\r\n
I don't buy it. Even if the absurd allegations were true, burning down\r\nempty buildings in the middle of forests is not terrorism. I'm waiting for\r\nour president to get a grip and stop pissing in his panties every time a spark\r\nof fire bursts somewhere. The rest of us have real lives to live and do\r\nnot profit from hysteria the same way the dry-drunk ex-coke-addict spoiled brat\r\nfrat-boy crook in the Whitehouse does. Stop whining to us Mr.\r\nFuck-Head-In-Chief and get a real job.<\/p>\r\n
<\/p>\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Beware the green boogieman!","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2006\/01\/145158.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":145192,"heading":"Well duh!","article":"The War Against Terror, TWAT\u00ae needs to be fed. \r\nthis is terror\r\nSlumping building \r\n a leaking housing bubble\r\n interests rates are creeping up \r\nover extended credit \r\n a period of sliding wage scales \r\n mortgages payment failure\r\nloans being called in \r\nhomelessness\r\ncold \r\nhunger \r\nsickness \r\nALF and Earth First! are to blame.","author":"dealer","parent_id":145158,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-01-23 12:00:15","modified":"2013-11-11 00:37:43","fileurl":""}]}