More on the FBI's Vegan "Terrorist"

categories: Activism and Actions, Green Scare, Politics and Law

Published April 23, 2009 @ 05:43PM PT

At the end of "On the FBI's 'Most Wanted' Vegan 'Terrorist'" yesterday, I rounded up some of the responses to the news from my fellow animal rights bloggers. At the time, Will Potter of GreenIsTheNewRed.com hadn't yet weighed in. Now he has, and given that this is his area of focus, I want to direct you to his take on the news too. Here's a part of it:

It was an overtly political move to neutralize the growing chorus of opposition to the recent DHS memo warning of right-wing extremism. When the memo came out, right wing groups sprang into action (much more so than environmental or animal groups have) and have already filed a lawsuit. Meanwhile, some environmentalists mistakenly saw it as reason to believe the Green Scare is over.

Enter Daniel Andreas San Diego. He hasn’t harmed anyone, and his crimes are nothing compared to Osama bin Laden and others on the list (and nothing compared to right wing groups who have admittedly created weapons of mass destruction). But he’s an easy way to create the false impression that this “War on Terrorism” is somehow bipartisan, that both the left and right are being targeted equally.

Chuck Norris recently showed us that’s a load of garbage. This political maneuvering my placate the right (and the DHS memo may placate some environmentalists). And then it’s back to business as usual.

Read the rest here. And see my previous post here.

Oh, and Will reports that one of his readers sent this in: "Word on the street is bin Laden really likes falafel." Funny how that hasn't made it into any news releases and bios, huh?

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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.