Those fuckers get proven right more and more every day
The decline in attacks coincided with the adoption of the PATRIOT Act and a number of other widespread post-9/11 law enforcement policies.
“To those who have studied radical movements, the unprecedented prosecution of environmental activists represents the end of an era,” Vanessa Grigoriadis wrote in Rolling Stone in 2006. “Four states have already passed legislation—drafted by a right-wing lobbying group that represents 300 major corporations—that classifies any act of property destruction motivated by environmental beliefs as ‘ecological terrorism.’”
When Grigoriadis wrote that, FBI had recently called radical environmental activists “the number one domestic terrorism threat,” despite the fact that damage was suffered by property, and human casualties were rare. (That description has since been downgraded to “one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today.”)
Yep going to say this. There was a massive crackdown on environmentalists. I wish at least one of the many leftist podcasts I listen to would do a dive on it. I'd like to know more specifics. Apparently people were being murdered and everything. Right during the time when all the climate change discourse was growing.
The same thing is going to happen (or rather, is happening) to BLM activists. Lots of new laws aimed at stopping "rioters" in reaction to the chuds storming the capitol will be used to target leftists and minority activists.
FBI had recently called radical environmental activists “the number one domestic terrorism threat,” despite the fact that damage was suffered by property, and human casualties were rare.
At least government agencies and the police are ideologically consistent in placing property over life, judging by the regards with which BLM was (and continues to be) held in. Fucking pigs.
"The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!"
-K. Marx, 1871. 150 years on, not much has changed.
In my country they used to attack coal powerplants and shit. Though they stopped after rolling blackouts became a thing, so they don't compound the problem or get blamed by the government as an easy excuse for why the people don't have electricity.
:ecoterrorism: The planet's dyin' Cloud!
:grillman: I just want to grill with mako for god's sake!
Probably similar to how 1800s anarchist's "propaganda of the deed" was ineffective, which is too bad
Then again, a police precinct got burned to the ground last year and the act was more popular than either presidential candidate.
It was popular, but not an effective long term strategy
Rad as hell, though
Yeah I wouldn't call it a long term strategy, but I do think it was productive in that instance. We need to be extremely weary of adventurism though.
Most of the mythological ecoterrorists of the 70’s-90’s were media boogeymen, the few that really existed like Ted K were actually gross nutjobs who thought overpopulation and minorities were meaningful contributing factors to climate change.
they were public enemy #1 during the 90s. real spotted owl and "earth first" hours, who's up?
