Posted on 11/06/2001 9:57:42 AM PST by callisto
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:12:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
HOUGHTON -- Federal and state law enforcement officials remained on the Michigan Tech University campus late Monday after bombs found at two university buildings were disarmed. Radical environmentalists are considered possible suspects, a county official said.
The bombs, described by university spokesmen as the "real thing," were discovered early Monday morning by campus public safety officers at the U.J. Noblet Forestry Building and the U.S. Forest Service Engineering Laboratory.
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bin Laden Muslims are violently anti-abortion. It's one reason they condem the West.
So, nice try to blame Conservatives but you lose.
'Domestic' anthrax was probably stolen by foreign students from University and Government labs who use these students as a cheap labor pool. They are the ones with the most probable access and the most likely motivation.
Oklahoman Editorial:
Domestic Terrorists Must be Stopped
2001-11-05
Catherine Ives was a researcher at Michigan State University in 1999, working on developing disease-resistant crops that could help alleviate starvation in Third World countries. Then, the facility in which she worked was torched, destroying Ives' work.
A group called the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the fire. Upset with the research because of its association with genetically engineered crops, ELF members shut down Ives' operation through an act of terrorism.
While the resolve of Americans to combat terrorism is currently at a peak, the focus remains on Islamic extremists. Domestic terrorists such as the ELF and the Animal Liberation Front continue to operate with little public notice of their acts of terror.
Richard Berman, executive director of an organization representing restaurant and tavern owners, wrote last week in a USA Today opinion piece that homegrown terrorism has not let up since the awful events of Sept. 11. Rather than admit that their form of terrorism is every bit as odious as that of the Mideast radicals, the environmental and animal rights groups self- righteously cling to the "correctness" of their cause.
"In this age of insanity, you may be branded a terrorist," says an Animal Liberation Front Web page, "but you will one day be remembered as a selfless warrior who dared to fight for what is right." The words are directed at ALF associates who bomb or burn down research labs, sometimes killing animals in order to "save" them.
If those same words were distributed by Osama bin Laden, righteous indignation would be the reaction. Yet these domestic terrorists carry on with little scrutiny.
"The growing wave of domestic terrorism by animal-rights, anti-corporate and anti-biotech extremists has gone beyond vandalism," Berman wrote. "Property has been destroyed and lives have been put at risk. And Americans are the perpetrators."
The FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies have their hands full now, giving the domestic terrorists a virtual field day for their lunatic fringe activities. ALF claims to have set fire to a primate research facility just nine days after planes hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Periodic torchings or bombings of research facilities have been commonplace. The ALF or ELF has claimed responsibility for firebombings at meat companies and a feed mill. The fire at Michigan State University caused about $1 million in damages, Berman wrote.
Because these domestic terrorists have so far managed to avoid killing people, their activities have been largely ignored by the general public. But terrorism is terrorism, and any war on terrorism must include these twisted and unjustifiable attacks.
While not directly engaged in terrorism, groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are nevertheless linked to terrorist attacks. For example, in 1992 ALF member Rodney Coronado firebombed a Michigan research facility, a crime he later admitted committing. PETA contributed $42,500 to Coronado's legal defense in 1995 while spending less than $5,000 for animal shelters that year.
Former FBI Director Louis Freeh was outspoken in his contempt for domestic terrorism, but most Americans remain unaware that animal-rights and environmentalist radicals are loose in this society. Similarities between the homegrown terrorists and the men who hijacked four planes on Sept. 11 can be found in their rhetoric and their unfailing belief that no act is too extreme if the cause is "right."
Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are "acceptable crimes" in the pursuit of a cause, PETA co-founder Alex Pacheco once said. With such an endorsement of terrorism, it's not out of line to suggest that PETA itself encourages acts of violence.
In an opinion piece that appeared in The Oklahoman on Oct. 24, Nick Nichols, chairman of a crisis management firm in Washington, D.C., said Americans too often tolerate violence committed by environmental and animal rights terrorists as "stunts" or "pranks."
"This invites acts of greater violence," Nichols wrote. "Instead, we need to crack down with aggressive prosecution of domestic terrorism against property to protect us from more serious domestic terrorism against our people."
To paraphrase President Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks, you are either in the battle against terrorism or you are abetting it. Extremist animal and environmental activists have made it clear which side they're on.
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send them to afghanistan to 'pick daisy's'!!!
Has anyone considered that maybe a mining engineering student lost some of his homework on the way back from the Library?
Ditto.
BSCE '79
It also needs to be pointed out that Clinton holdovers in Justice have repeatedly pointed the finger at domestic sources for the recent Anthrax attacks. MTU officials have advanced the ELF theory, and a point of note is that MTU president Curt Tompkins is an associate of Clinton.
That said, I hope our law enforcement takes good care of MTU, the greatest University in Michigan!
"Didn't we at UW yell 'sieve' at your goalie? (UW Class of '72). Aplogies if you're not a Husky."
"Badger's? We don't need no stinking Badger's!"
And a University which supplied many of the engineers who made your life more enjoyable.
Factoid: The "Intel Inside" logo? Designed by a Michigan Tech grad.
But you're right. The place sucks, there's no reason for anyone to come to Houghton, especially to live. It's not worth your time, so don't bother. Really.
"Wadsworth Hall even has a students' weapon locker!"
Right on! I once walked from the MEEM parking lot to the Civil Eng building (Dillman) with a cased shotgun (was lending it to a fellow grad student).As you know, this was clear across campus. Nobody batted an eye!
BSCE (93), MSCE (95).
Hopefully they were pitched headlong off of Brockway...
1. As you stated, Radical-enviros are much more likely to have access to bio equipment and labs (read Universities).
2. They profess an obligation to radically reduce population.
3. Anthrax fits them better than other methods: It doesn't damage the environment, and it's a natural-occurring substance. Additionally, because it is not contagious between humans, the possibilities of artificially induced genetic mutations (distortions of nature) are very low.
4. Enviro-Rads profess no inherent value in individual human life.
Anyone got anything to add to this list?
We can raise a toast to our alma mater, but we will have to disagree on whose responsible. The ELF are environmentalist-wacko terrorists who have an intellectual hard-on for tree harvesting. As you know, the US Forest Service Engineering Lab at MTU is a technology transfer operation dedicated to making loggers and sawyers more efficient. The ELF sees them as the mortal enemy.
Here in the Hoosier Hills of Southern Indiana, ELF made news for sabotaging logging mobile equipment, specifically by cutting hydraulic hoses and tossing containers of hydraulic oil into a nearby fishing pond! The vandalism took place not on private property, but in the Martin State Forest. They were roundly criticized by the local law abiding environmentalists.
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