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In article <2A59FCDE.17887@noiro.acs.uci.edu> mrichey@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mike Richey) writes:
>In article <1992Jul7.172034.17126@pbhya.PacBell.COM> whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt) writes:
>>In article <2A59BB90.11255@noiro.acs.uci.edu>, mrichey@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Mike Richey) writes:
>
>>The problem with slinging a charge of 'get the facts' on this case is
>>that there aren't very many of them.  There is a great deal of inuendo
>>and assertion from partisans on both sides--but damn few accessible
>>facts.  (And your opinions are no more 'facts' here than the opinions
>>of those you are pointing at.)
>
>Okay, the point is that the accusation made beforehand was blatant.
>That association with the Earth First! movement means violence. This
>is actually untrue (that EF! is a violent movement). One could say
>since Richard Nixon ordered the bombing of Cambodia that all
>repulicans are war mongers. I use this as an example.

A couple of points here . . .

It's traditionally been the Republicans blaming the Democrats for
getting the US into wars with WW I, WW II, Korea, and Viet Nam usually
cited.  So, yes, in a sense, whole politcal parties are accused of
being warmongers.

EarthFirst! has acquired a reputation for being on te fringes of (if
not actively involved in) 'violent' actions.  Some power line towers
in Arizona and numerous cases of tree spiking in NW California come to
mind in this connection.  

As there is a general trend that when you don't get your own way, to
escalate the action (look at nearly all wars, rebellions, revolutions,
and protest sequences), the suspicion that the EF folks were
transporting an explosive device on their own is *extremely* tempting.
The conclusion that this is so is nearly inescapable to anyone not an
EF partisan to start with.  That there is no proof of this one way or
the other does nothing to remove the logic of the situation (nor to
make in unjustified).

	--Hal
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