[FairOpinion]

THey use terrorist tactics and should indeed be called, what they are: terrorists. Their intent is to terrorize.

[Alexander Rubin]

Right you are.

[BigTom85]

PETA is probably loosly connected to ELF and ALF... im sure many supporters of PETA support and possibly participate in the 'actions' of ALF and ELF... these are also the same wackos that will chain them selves to a tree for months and lay down on a logging road

wow, it must be great to not have a job and to have parents that are willing to support you until your 35 yrs old while protesting a useless cause (Heavy Sarcasm)

[SierraWasp]

Yes! And some of them are so effective that they actually convince ignorant publicly elected officials to initiate legislation that strikes terror in the hearts of property owners who will soon lose all semblance of control of the land they've worked for generations!

Oh! I know!! Financial terror doesn't count, even though it threatens entire ways of life around an entire mountain range with yet one more massive bureaucratic layer of faceless bureaucracy with a token of local elected voting members too small to stop anything Socialistic!!!

Anyone living in CA, between the great valley floor and the NV line, from Bakersfield to the OR border is going to, or has already been instilled with fear by the very Governor they proudly voted for in CA's first historic Recall Election and... A Republican (so to speak) at that!!!

[razorback-bert]

Animal rights wackos want to do good, go clean up Asian food markets.

[ClaudiusI]

Are these guys going after the Mythbusters after they punched sharks in the Jaws episode?

[Freebird Forever]

They use terrorist tactics and should indeed be called, what they are: terrorists. Their intent is to terrorize.

True enough. But anyone who simply views the green movement as a bunch of street level criminals is missing the big picture.

This is a well organized, well funded pincer move against regular American citizens. On the lower level, groups such as ALF, ELF, PETA, Earth First! and Greenpeace do provide support and sanctuary to the terrorists.

On the higher plane are groups such as (but not limited to) the Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund and the Nature Conservancy. These organizations interface with the EPA, Dept. of Energy, Dept. of the Interior, various UN projects, other governmental agencies (both US and foreign), multinational corporations and grant providing tax-exempt foundations .

These are the groups which lobby for and litigate against changes in policy.

Both prongs of the pincer ultimately serve the same masters who stand to gain from these various forms of terrorism.