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Originally posted by Carrie@Feb 21 2004, 02:24 AM
Things like stopping up legal drainage pipes coming from factories, blocking entry to factories, using their boats to stop passage of barges and freighters, etc... these things impact businesses, hurt jobs, endanger lives and generally aren't done for any real reason other than sensationalism and press.
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There are groups that take things to the extreme in environmentalism and in politics...
Just because they are extreme does not make them "leftist" (although many of the environmental groups are left of center). Taking extreme action and disturbing commerce in order to make change is one of the things our country was founded on (remember the Boston Tea Party), so in a way, extreme action to make a point is an American tradition. When they advocate violent overthrow and arm themselves (insurrectionists) at that point I would label them as either "rightists" or "leftists" because you know as well as I do the connotation that those terms carry with them.
from:
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/429/429lect05.htm
INSURRECTIONISTS:
An insurrectionist is a person in armed opposition to the laws of the United States. There are a number of groups in the United States who regularly resort to violence in the furtherance of their political goals, or who reject with armed force the authority of the U.S. government. Such groups attack families, clinics, and offices, frequently using arson or bombing. They range in political ideology from "rightists" to "leftists" to "extremists" who are not necessarily political but extreme factions of an otherwise legitimate movement. Leftist groups tend to operate under several different names. Rightist groups tend to have the most members. Someone can belong to several different groups. Here's a list of the various groups engaged in insurrection:
American Republican Army
Animal-rights extremists
Anti-Arab extremists
Antinuclear power extremists
Antipornography extremists
Anti-Semitic extremists
Arizona Patriots
Armed Resistance Movement
Aryan Nations
Black Liberation Army
Committee of the States
Ecology/antitechnology extremists
Irish Republican Army
Islamic extremists
Japanese Red Army Faction
Jewish Defense League
KKK
Los Machateros
Puerto Rican Nationalist Group
May 19th Communist Movement
Mormon polygamist extremists
Native American extremists
Neo-Nazi organizations
Organization of Volunteers for the Puerto Rico Revolution
Posse Comitatus
Puerto Rican National Liberation Front
Red Guerrilla Resistance
Religious extremists
Revolutionary Fighting Group
Right-to-Life extremists
White Patriots Party
United Freedom Front/Sam Melville-Jonathan Jackson Unit