[PopeGideon]

Prompts an interesting question.

One man's rich is another man's poor.

Most people in the U.S. who are poor have chosen to be poor.

[heroineworshipper]

That was an environmentalist protest against deforestation for building non functional houses.

[sicophiliac]

Yeah almost as hypocritical as them burning those plastic,oil, rubber and synthetic polymer laden Hummers a few years back. At least the wood in those houses wont release quite as many toxic chemicals, just C02.. then more C02 when they destroy more trees and consume more natural resources to replace the houses. Good work eco freaks!

[eastbay]

One persons 'terrorist' is another persons 'hero.' What we're seeing is the beginning of what will become more and more commonplace.

Like it or not. Wait until civil order starts to break down.

[LoneSnark]

Odd, the last statistics I saw said domestic terrorism peaked in the 1970s. Then all the radical hippies got jobs.

[auscanman]

I'm totally for stigmatizing conspicuous consumption, but burning down those houses wasn't wise. Better to do things like put embarrassing bumper stickers on SUVs, luxury cars, and the entrances to McMansions. It gives the more materialistic amongst us a subtle push in the right direction.

[HEADER_RACK]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'O')ne persons 'terrorist' is another persons 'hero.' What we're seeing is the beginning of what will become more and more commonplace.

Like it or not. Wait until civil order starts to break down.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HEADER_RACK', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'O')ne persons 'terrorist' is another persons 'hero.' What we're seeing is the beginning of what will become more and more commonplace.

Like it or not. Wait until civil order starts to break down.

[Heineken]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('HEADER_RACK', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eastbay', 'O')ne persons 'terrorist' is another persons 'hero.' What we're seeing is the beginning of what will become more and more commonplace.

Like it or not. Wait until civil order starts to break down.

[HEADER_RACK]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he new Greater Depression will be very different from the old one, because people have changed for the worse, there are far more of them, and the resource base has been depleted. So we can expect mass vandalism and chaos, indeed.

[Chesire]

4 words

Upside down

insurance fraud

[alokin]

Presumed the majority of the US citizens is apolitical.
You really think of riots in a nation which does know far less demonstrations, rotten egg attacks, sit-ins etc than Europe?

Every attack on the democratic rights passed without much reaction of the big mass.

[MrBill]

Some people think the end justifies the means, but I disagree. Eco-terrorists do the cause more harm than good!

[Lighthouse]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Heineken', '.').. Gasoline at $6/gallon, perhaps, and fast-rising unemployment....

[shakespear1]

Could this explain some of the fires in California ?

I noticed the story is in German in the Der Spiegel. Is there an english version?

[Cloud9]

Our communities are vulnerable because we have no real history of this kind of thing. A few wing nuts with Molotov cocktails do not a revolution make. Should this kind of thing get serious, your neighborhood watch would become serious. They sell night vision at Wal-Mart.

[killJOY]

Check this one out:

"Eco terrorists" burn McMansions.

Excuse me, but if you're an "eco-terrorist" group and you want to get away with arson, do you spraypaint your name all over the place???

Qui bono?

ELF certainly doesn't "bono."

[Olaf]

While I don't think folks should be going around burning houses, I also don't think they are 'terrorists". So, if you just burn down a house for kicks, you're an arsonist, you know with rights and stuff. You burn it down for a reason, then you're a terrorist. The likes of which now have little rights in this country if the government so classifies you, and they don't even have to have much in the way of evidence or anything.

So who do we start calling terrorists next?

A slippery slope there. Got Guantanamo?

Olaf

P.S. Don't discount the insurance fraud thing.

[manu]

Yes, those damn eco-people did it! Now we can brand them as terrorists and put them in camps. Of course we are humane, and we will put them in eco-camps which are made of redwood trees recently cut down. The never ending bullshit of the media, it just keeps getting deeper and deeper.

[MrBill]

Umm, forget 'civility' "tresapassers will shot on sight" and rightly so...

UPDATE: UMM...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')errorists?? shot on sight! FFFF U!