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"gatt" <LiveFromTheClocktower@gfy.com> wrote in message
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> Nobody wants eco-mayhem.  They want people to listen and to think.
Torching
> stuff doesn't do that, which is why all but the radical environmentalists
> turn their back on it.  Also, I don't happen to think the arsonists are
> environmentalists.  They're angry young people who attached themselves to
a
> cause as an excuse to lash out at established society.

I remember the weenies in the early eighties that turned into what we now
call the neo-cons. Same folks, different clothes.

>
> >>and nondestructive civil disobedience works,
> >
> > Like spiking trees so loggers get hurt?
>
> That's destructive, is it not?  What about spiking trees so loggers get
hurt
> is "nondestructive"?
>
> BTW, they didn't spike trees so that loggers would get hurt.  They spiked
> trees to prevent loggers from cutting. Guess which industry tried to make
> sure nobody knew that. When tree-spiking occured--at least on the west
> coast--the culprits notified the logging operation not to cut there. It
was
> up to the operation owners to pass the word on and prevent their folks
from
> cutting, but, hey, nothing wins popular support like letting one of your
> logger lackeys bleed to death so you can see their crying family on TV.

No one was ever hurt by cutting a spiked tree, AFAIK.

Curt