http://abcnews.go.com/US/Technology/story?id=3204939&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
The Earth Liberation Front, for all intensive purposes is not a nice group, it seems they have committed more than 1100 acts of vandalism and arson. (I admittedly have no clue what their message is) The FBI calls them terroist (a lot of other US gov orgs do too). However, one interesting point is that with all their acts they have never killed a person, though I don't know about maiming or otherwise serverely injuring or minorly injuring. Is this group full of terrorists? Are they on the same page as the Muslim Jihadist's (sp?)? Should their prison sentenses be longer than someone who randomly commited these acts for the heck of it?
The Earth Liberation Front, for all intensive purposes is not a nice group, it seems they have committed more than 1100 acts of vandalism and arson. (I admittedly have no clue what their message is) The FBI calls them terroist (a lot of other US gov orgs do too). However, one interesting point is that with all their acts they have never killed a person, though I don't know about maiming or otherwise serverely injuring or minorly injuring. Is this group full of terrorists? Are they on the same page as the Muslim Jihadist's (sp?)? Should their prison sentenses be longer than someone who randomly commited these acts for the heck of it?
A radical environmentalist who admitted to setting fire to an SUV dealership, a tree farm and a police station was declared a terrorist yesterday and sentenced to 16 years in federal prison
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Since their arrests last year, members of the cell, who called themselves "the family," have all pleaded guilty to charges of arson and conspiracy. They have insisted, however, that they would fight at their sentencing hearings the "terrorist enhancement" procedures that could increase their prison terms and land them in supermax prisons.
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The government said that combination of intimidation and coercion is what makes it terrorism, and the fact that no one has died is not the real issue.