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"Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group labeled eco-terrorists by the Federal Bureau of Investigation." In 2001, Earth Liberation Front firebomb

• zymhan 12y ago
  That's a distinction worth noting. Monitored not for political leanings, but for membership in a violent organization.
  • wuliwong 12y ago
    I don't think it is that important. The important issue is that they are suggesting that millions of USPS customer's mail is being monitored in this way. And certainly, they aren't all members of violent organizations.
  • eli 12y ago
    ELF isn't really an organization, there aren't really members and non-members. People did actions in the name of the organization, but I don't think there was much broader coordination.
• pizza234 12y ago
  This is base concept upon which the legal abuse is built. Earth Liberation Front, intentionally, never killed anybody. Their actions have been judged though, as if they were intentionally trying to kill people. Terrorism is a vague concept, but the laws are well-defined, and the government intentionally applies them with double standards, exactly as it does with software patents, which are meant to cover a very precise idea, while they are applied in the vaguest possible terms, in order to extort money from the victims. So here's where the hypocrisy starts: On the lack of deaths from ELF attacks, the FBI's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism has said, "I think we're lucky. Once you set one of these fires they can go way out of control." This is true, but why the government doesn't limit mass-spying of people, then? It actually did go out of control already. By the way, don't forget that the government condoned HSBC, which factually supports real terrorists.
  • bmelton 12y ago
    "For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." HL Mencken