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posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 27 2015, @10:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the when-does-activism-become-terrorism dept.

I was saddened to hear that two individuals who released fur animals and vandalized fur farms across America were busted: http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/fbi-arrests-activists-accused-of-releasing-mink/article_6c169b5d-dbbc-5dd1-adb0-534ee46af88b.html

But the arrest is sort of beside the point and there are two interesting tidbits in there. First and less interesting, is the ridiculous charge of terrorism under the "Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act" -- seriously, what they did is just plain old crime. Before you know it, going 10 over on the freeway will be considered an act of terrorism.

More intriguing, despite a lack of details on how they got busted, is this tidbit:

The indictment states that they covered their tracks by avoiding phones or logging into known online accounts and email. Instead, they used public Internet computers and encrypted email and cash for purchases while traveling. They would allegedly withdraw hundreds of dollars while back home in the San Francisco Bay Area before another trip.

The FBI states that they drafted communiques and posted them online to publicize their actions on websites associated with "animal rights extremists."

I'm going to guess automatic license plate readers were involved. Pure guess.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:40AM

    by Hairyfeet (75) <{bassbeast1968} {at} {gmail.com}> on Tuesday July 28 2015, @12:40AM (#214627) Journal

    Sigh...it is NOT random, its is targeting a specific group and by your argument if a neo nazi says "We'll go kill Rabbi Goldfarb, scare the fuck out of them kikes" it wouldn't count because he didn't say "lets kill a random person".

    Terrorism ALWAYS has a target, if you say it has to be "random" then by your logic there has never been a terrorist act because there is always a target from the US financial center and government in 9/11 to killing jews with rockets in Tel Aviv. If it were truly "random" then those rockets would be just as likely to be targeted at gaza, wouldn't they? Your failure in logic in thinking that terrorists care about individuals when the target of terrorism is nearly always institutions, be it the US military at the Ft Hood and Recruitment attacks, US government with the OKC bombing.

    Its really simple friend, murderers target PEOPLE, while terrorists target groups and institutions. I mean why would the Klan care about targeting a specific black when any black hanging from a tree will instill the desired fear, while you are ignoring it HAS to be black, it won't instill fear in blacks if they kill a random person on the street who isn't black, now will it?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 28 2015, @11:36PM (#215118)

    I see no need for subjective, ambiguous, and overbroad words like "terrorism". We have other suitable terms. Murderer. Thief. Vandal. Criminal. Need I go on?