Saturday, January 21, 2006

The Global War on Eco-Terror

Here's how Bush's FBI spends its time when they're not surfing for porn: they're going after 'eco-terrorists'. Quote:

Joining Gonzales, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said: "Investigating and preventing animal rights and environmental extremism is one of the FBI's highest domestic priorities." [emphasis added]
I have no patience for the ELF and ALF. I think they're idiots, and they're not by any stretch of the imagination environmentalists. Still...'terrorists'? One of the FBI's 'highest domestic priorities'?

Maybe I'm just a hopeless liberal moral relativist, but isn't it just a little bit skewed to call glorified vandals 'terrorists'? To devote global-war-on-terror-type resources to people who pretty much just wreck stuff? Instead of putting more of an effort into catching folks who are planning to...y'know...kill people?

I'm just asking.

[That's all, folks]