'Eco-Terrorism'?

rimrocker · Jan 23, 2006

One of the guys picked up in this is the brother of Alexandra Paul of Baywatch fame.

wnes · Jan 24, 2006

geeimsobored said:

I don't think your post is necessarily in line with your original post. Your original argument was about mixed up priorities of the FBI and Domestic Surveillance Organizations. My response was that this was flawed because the FBI's job isn't to police corporations or to worry about rising medical costs. Their job is to stop criminal activity which even you admit this activity is.

Also your arguments about how the Department of Interior or Agriculture need to enforce this stuff is just silly. These are environmental groups targeting homes, vehicles etc.. Yes the Department of Agriculture and Interior may deal with plants and the ELF wants to help plants but this similarity doesn't mean that they have anything to do with criminal law enforcement.

If you made an argument about how this distracts focus and resources from the war on terror dealing with the likes of al qaeda then maybe just maybe you have an argument but the way you structure it now makes no sense.

Additionally, your post about the fact that arsonists don't target people is irrelevant. Fine, they don't target people. But that's still a crime and still should be targeted. Ok fine the Government shouldn't use the term "eco terrorism" but that doesn't matter. The ELF and ALF have been committing arson and targeted attacks for decades and have NEVER been caught. If a serial arsonist burns down hundreds of houses and cars, you put significant resources into finding him. The same goes with ELF which has done exactly that.

Prove to me that there is a significant tradeoff but until then, you have no case.

Ok, the FBI and DOJ spent quite a bit of time and money on this one and didn't find the result. That's not because they didn't have the money and resources to find the culprit. It's because the culprit did a good job of hiding his identity and fooling investigators.
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My problem with your initial post is that you flat out denied that FBI should ever be pursuing white collar corporate crime -- leaving it solely with SEC and/or the Congress, hence I countered with a ridiculous example per your reasoning.

Good thing at least you acknowledge the term eco-terrorism is stretching at best ...

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