Funny how now even arson for the sake of animal rights is no longer just arson. The US seems way too ready to call anything vaguely distruptive the Big T. As if a crime is no longer just a crime.
Working on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal
Liberation Front, the defendants committed arson with improvised
incendiary devices fashioned from milk jugs, petroleum products and
homemade timers, causing damage in the millions of dollars, Justice
Department officials said.
Sounds like a crime to me …… but no …….
Director Robert S. Mueller III
of the F.B.I., who appeared at the session with Mr. Gonzales, said one
of the bureau’s "highest domestic terrorism priorities" is catching and
prosecuting "those who commit crime and terrorism in the name of animal
rights or environmental issues."
Ok so they are going to stamp out vandalism in the political activism sector. No great surprise there. My question is when is a crime just a crime and not some sinister plot connected with Iraq? Oops sorry I mean Afganistan. Oops sorry I mean Iran.. Oh dear or was that N Korea?
I get so confused.
Link: U.S. Indicts 11 for Acts of Domestic Terrorism – New York Times.
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