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What is the greatest domestic terror threat?

 
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khyber



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:42 pm    Post subject: What is the greatest domestic terror threat? Reply with quote

Apparently, eco-terrorists (???) and animal rights activitists.

http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/2008/08/25/state-department-powerpoint-corporations/

Why, because they know their freedoms and aren't affraid to use them. Sure they never break the law, but that doesn't mean they aren't terrorists.

This is the line that the State is giving to corporations. They've even created a handy dandy powerpoint presentation to help corporations deal with these pesky "freedom users".

*sigh....*
Remember when Americans (well, Westerners) actually stood up for things that they believed in?

Actually, I don't, but I bet that some must.
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mises



Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a very close friend who is a terrorism analyst at a major Asian institute and he believes the very same thing. His opinion is that the radical muslims can be brought into the political process - yuck - but that the animal rights/GIA nutters are so far off the deep end that they cannot.

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Recently citizen scientist Forrest Mims told me about a speech he heard at the Texas Academy of Science during which the speaker, a world-renowned ecologist, advocated for the extermination of 90 percent of the human species in a most horrible and painful manner. Apparently at the speaker's direction, the speech was not video taped by the Academy and so Forrest's may be the only record of what was said. Forrest's account of what he witnessed chilled my soul. Astonishingly, Forrest reports that many of the Academy members present gave the speaker a standing ovation. To date, the Academy has not moved to sanction the speaker or distance itself from the speaker's remarks.

If the professional community has lost its sense of moral outrage when one if their own openly calls for the slow and painful extermination of over 5 billion human beings, then it falls upon the amateur community to be the conscience of science.

Forrest, who is a member of the Texas Academy and chairs its Environmental Science Section, told me he would be unable to describe the speech in The Citizen Scientist because he has protested the speech to the Academy and he serves as Editor of The Citizen Scientist. Therefore, to preclude a possible conflict of interest, I have directed Forrest to describe what he observed and his reactions in this special feature, for which I have served as editor and which is being released a week ahead of our normal publication schedule. Comments may be sent to Backscatter.

http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/index.html

Even the radical muslims merely desire Borg-like resistance is futuile assimilation. These eco-loons want us all gone.
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mises



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 2:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe staged, but hilarious anyways. Stupid hippies.

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/128615.html
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Czarjorge



Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.

PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Liberals.










I wanted to beat Joo to it.
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Tjames426



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the Federal and State Tax systems of the USA.
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TexasPete



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm terrified of the Jesus Camp people indoctrinating our youth and taking over the country fifth column style. I'm not anti-religious, but fundies of any sort scare the hell out of me and there's good reason the Founding Fathers created the Establishment Clause.
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aarontendo



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

surrendercrats
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ReeseDog



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Obammessiah.




Hat tip to Spliff.
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doc_ido



Joined: 03 Sep 2007

PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After the Pianka speech, the Texas Academy of Sciences started getting death threats from right-wing lunatics. Maybe they were upset at being bumped off the top of the domestic threat list?

Personally, I would be suspicious of anything a "scientist" like Mims says - he's got his interpretation of the speech; the rest of the Academy has theirs. If you're genuinely interested in it, Pianka's speech (The Vanishing Book of Life) can be downloaded - and while he says that he believe Earth would be better off, from an ecological point of view, without so many people, he doesn't advocate extermination and talks about microbes so that we can address the (potential) danger.

mises, I think you're making a gross generalisation about environmental and animal rights groups. The vast majority of people - and thus the vast majority of activists (for want of a more specific umbrella term) - are peaceful and law-abiding.

Still, there's nothing like the demonisation and marginalisation of fringe groups to attract extremists to them and goad them into pulling even more outlandish stunts. The fact that the story came from CNN makes it suspicious, but in general if you classify people as terrorists, that's how they're going to act.
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bacasper



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The government
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mises



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

doc_ido wrote:

mises, I think you're making a gross generalisation about environmental and animal rights groups. The vast majority of people - and thus the vast majority of activists (for want of a more specific umbrella term) - are peaceful and law-abiding.


No no, I specifically used the phrase "eco-loons". I consider myself an environmentally conscious individual and the vast majority of people who care about the environment are totally normal. But the fringes are full of bat shit crazy nutters.
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