How Long Before Environmental Extremist Start Killing People?

Question

Hummer Owner Gets Angry Message
Vandals Batter D.C. Man's SUV, Slash Its Tires and Scratch In an Eco Note

By Allison Klein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 18, 2007; Page B01

On a narrow, leafy street in Northwest Washington, where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm, one man bought a flashy gray Hummer that was too massive to fit in his garage.

So he parked the seven-foot-tall behemoth on the street in front of his house and smiled politely when his eco-friendly neighbors looked on in disapproval at his "dream car."

It lasted five days on the street before two masked men took a bat to every window, a knife to each 38-inch tire and scratched into the body: "FOR THE ENVIRON."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/17/AR2007071701808.html

jj - oh really? Like the E.L.F. for example?

Neighbor rivalry? Are you kidding? Why would they bother righting "For the Environ" if it was just petty vandelism?

Scott - Yep, like how the Iraqies are blowing stuff up just to make Bush look bad? Common you know that's ridiculous

jj- you just wrote off an organized group originating from the U.K. that has networks in the U.S. as a bunch of hoodlems. Reality is probably right back in the direction you came my friend.

Answer 1

Extremists kill and injure people already and this is a fact. They also have a history of destroying private property. In the case of environmentalists just look at some of the things they have done in regard to logging. Spiking trees, sabotaging equipment and blowing up vehicles has been very common. They have little regard for the potential danger to human life because in their minds the agenda tops all and if you are detrimental to that agenda then you have no rights. Unfortunately this standard applies to extremists of all stripes, not just environmentalists.

Answer 2

Actually, you don't know for a fact it was someone pro environment that smashed up the hummer. It is possible someone not pro environment in the neighborhood smashed up the vehicle to make the environmentalists look* bad or even violent so that they might shut up or disband.

Its reverse psychology.

Edit:

Well first, those two people that vandalized the hummer are vandals. Doesn't matter whether or not they are pro environment. You can't condemn a whole group for the actions of a select few that joined for jollies. Second, it is not at all far fetched that people against the pro environment movement would do something like this to give pro environmentalists a bad name.

If someone is crazy enough to vandalize a vehicle to protect the environment, then someone against the movement is definitely crazy enough to vandalize a vehicle to try to stop the movement.

You do not know for a fact the two vandals were pro environment, so stop using the guilty until proven innocent mentality.

Answer 3

Some people look for any reason to justify their actions, and in this case environmentalism seemed to justify it for them, even though such acts would never be justifiable, to the rest of us. Kind of like the way, you will find any way, you can to make over generalizations to attack environmentalists, some people use environmentalism, religion, race, and many other things to justify acts they would have done anyway. Usually acts like this are decided first, and the justification made afterward.
This kind of act isn't what environmentalism is about, and more educated/mature people realize they just made some company expend more energy to fix the situation they caused, thus going against everything environmentalists believe.

This case here seems to support my point, as it appears to be more of a case of neighbor rivalry than environmentalism.

Answer 4

Pay attention to what they say. Many of them already talk openly about overcrowding, which leads to 'population control'. That of course is just newspeak for 'thinning the herd'. The average tree-hugger isn't someone you should worry about, but some of the extremists out there firmly believe humans are the problem and that they are the 'final solution' (sound familiar?).

Answer 5

I hope they never get to that point; but they probably will. We
need to stiffen penalties on the laws they break; like arson,
malicious destruction of property, even graffiti, etc. I notice
they didn't etch anything for the Nation who's rights they violate. They are not helping their cause through crime.

Answer 6

Not long at all! They have already injured some over the whaling rights of the Maka people off of Washington!

Answer 7

who knows how long but if some one did that to my car i would be so mad my dad has a ford bronco that has a lift kit on it and 41" muddin tires i would be so mad if something happened to that truck one tire is 5,000 dollars a piece

Answer 8

Read Rainbow six by Tom Clancy...your answer is there...