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“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”


Friday, May 20, 2005

Fear My Bike!

So let me see if I've got this straight: the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front--extremist groups, yes, who sometimes use vandalism and, arguably, theft to support their goals--are considered as dangerous as Islamic terrorists?

In the same period violence from groups like the Ku Klux Klan and anti-abortion extremists have declined, Lewis said.

The ELF has been linked to fires set at sport utility vehicle dealerships and construction sites in various states, while the ALF has been blamed for arson and bombings against animal research labs and the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industry.

No deaths have been blamed on attacks by those groups so far, but the attacks have increased in frequency and size, said Lewis.

OK, you know what's wrong with this picture? Groups like ALF and ELF don't kill people. Yes, they destroy property. But they don't kill people. That's not their goal. On the other hand, we've got people like the Army of God which promotes killing abortion doctors. We've got the militia movement which spawned Timothy McVeigh. And let's not forget the white supremacist movement.

And yet the KKK, the Christian Identity, the Army of God, the Michigan Militia, these are not threats on the same level as ALF and ELF?

Of course. Want to know why? From the same article:

Senate Environment Committee Chairman James Inhofe estimated the cost of damages from militant environmental and animal rights supporters at more than $110 million in the past decade.

"Just like al Qaeda or any other terrorist movement, ELF and ALF cannot accomplish their goals without money, membership and the media," the Republican senator from Oklahoma said.

Inhofe said there was "a growing network of support for extremists like ELF and ALF," and he singled out People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for giving money to members of both groups.

Imagine a world where it's illegal to belong to PETA or the Sierra Club. Imagine that being an environmentalist is considered terrorism.

Imagine a world where eliminationist rhetoric is applied not only to homosexuals and immigrants, but to environmentalists, and even Democrats.

And imagine--that world is soon approaching. Why? Because that's what real fascism is--corporatism.

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posted by Tlachtga, 12:15 PM

Thursday, May 19, 2005

The Economic Necronomicon

Well, there's nothing like honesty with a title like The Black Book of Outsourcing.

I recieved it for the library today. Me, I think it should sit next to Richard Cavandish's THe Black Arts, or maybe A.E. Waite's The Book of Black Magic, but I'm sure we'll shelf it in the business section.

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posted by Tlachtga, 12:55 PM