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>- ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cian O'Connor" <cian_oconnor at yahoo.co.uk>
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> > > Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., the subcommittee's ranking
> > > member, said he could understand Rosebraugh's
> > > "frustration" with the government's environmental
> > > policies under the Bush administration, "but it's
> > > not an excuse for violence."
> >
> > This kind of sloppy rhetoric really pisses me off.
> > Burning down buildings is possibly dangerous, but it's
> > hardly violence. Same for spiking trees.
Locked up in an ivory tower hardly makes me an authority on this, but spiking trees that will be eventually harvested is violent! To not calling that violent would be analogous to saying that laying land mines isn't violent. Both can lead to mortal wounds if undetected.