lbo-talk-digest V1 #5686

Leslilake1 at aol.com Leslilake1 at aol.com
Thu Feb 14 19:31:56 PST 2002


A while back I posted the WA state anti-terrorism bill proposed after 9/11. It seems to expand existing state definitions of terrorism to destruction of property, and my first thought after reading it was: this is aimed at earth first, et al.

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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."

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> This kind of sloppy rhetoric really pisses me off.

> Burning down buildings is possibly dangerous, but it's

> hardly violence. Same for spiking trees.

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