Friday, September 30, 2005

Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists

A coordinated campaign by conservative lawmakers and the FBI aims to label environmental protests the newest form of terrorism.

A remorseless rapist in Hamilton County, Ohio is sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating and raping a 57-year-old woman. An environmental activist in California is sentenced to 22 years and 8 months for burning three SUVS at a car dealership after taking precautions to harm no lives.

The disparity helps illustrates what animal rights and environmental groups say is an expanding Orwellian attack on American environmentalism being waged under the pretext of eco-terrorism.