Whoops — sorry, by “anti-abortion” I meant “environmentalist,” and by “abortion clinics” I meant “houses and cars.” Apparently, radically anti-human environmentalists have been destroying property they don’t like and endangering other peoples’ lives. Their targets are new housing developments and SUVs.
We await the following:
- • Reporters asking the Sierra Club, World Wildlife Federation, and other non-violent environmentalist groups if they repudiate these domestic terrorists;
- • Reporters asking John Kerry and other prominent Democrats if they think the Earth Liberation Front is a legitimate political organization; and
- • Reporters grilling environmentalists about whether they are sincere about their beliefs — because after all, if you oppose suburban land growth and big vehicles, you must necessarily use violence to destroy those threats, as surely as night follows day.
I wonder if there will be a ratio of about 1,000 news stories for each SUV destroyed, the way there was about that many stories for each abortion clinic bombed and abortionist murdered.
(Thanks to an anonymous friend of Catholic Light who brought this to our attention.
It’s noteworthy that both of the actual environmental terrorists mentioned in the article are college students. People who haven’t had to be responsible for a family, or a home, or having to cart several kids around. While station wagons and minivans can do that for less gas than SUV’s, the point here is that these are likely trust-fund kids who aren’t about to live in mud huts to protect Mother Earth. They just expect everyone else to do that.
And speaking of pro-life opposition to clinics–most of the people in Operation Rescue (who did NOT burn down buildings or endanger human life) were family men and women who really had something at risk. In some cases they signed houses and property over to relatives so that courts couldn’t get at them. They were peaceful, not violent, and the Constitution had to be twisted into a pretzel with the FACE law to put their movement down.
Our local SUV-bomber is being called a ‘political prisoner’ by the crazy-lefty types. He burned 2 SUVs at a dealership, and the crazy-lefty types are saying ‘he didn’t hurt anyone, 20 years is too long.’
Of course, the dealership is in the middle of a neighborhood, across the street from a supermarket (and an organic one at that!). If one of those SUVs had blown, and possibly started a chain reaction (it’s been known to happen) – lots of people could have been hurt and/or killed.
Continuing the analogy, I wonder if the “he didn’t hurt anyone” defense would fly if the terrorist had destroyed an abortion clinic.