I think its important to bear in mind that there are plenty of examples of animal rights and environmental organisations that have been the target of harrasment campaigns bankrolled by corporate and political interests.
I'm not suggesting this is what happened here. I think we have to scrutinize any possible conspiracy -- I really want to make that clear. If you look through the other comments, there's a lot to delve through here.
But I would suggest bearing in mind that smear campaigns aimed at cultivating a kind of political nihilism is something that does happen.
The best you can do, if you care about these causes, is to continue to support them in whatever ways you can.
In my opinion, all animals deserve a hell of a lot better than this.
Terrorism is the collective use of violence to achieve social and political aims.
State mandated violence should not be treated as 'special'. This obviously applies if you're a based anarchist. It also applies if you're liberal.1 Since state mandated violence trampling the rights of individuals should be something you're opposed to if you're in any way ideologically consistent
Therefore ICE are terrorists. And they're not the cool kind either.
In the classic, Harriet Taylor / John Stuart Mill, sense. If you're a neolib, you can go fuck yourself.
Fair. My cousin has a fear of moths. He once described encountering a moth at night:
"I could hear him, out in the hall, his whings beating. whoooshwhoosh. I held my blanket tight, and waited for him to pass. And that's when the door swung open. CRASH I looked up from under the covers and screamed. AAAAAH"
jfc, would someone please dom this man already and help him get all the bootlicking out of his system in a healthy way that doesn't jeporadize international affairs.
In all seriousness though, this is sad as fuck. What a pathetic waste of flesh and bone.
Tangential but the oft quoted 'Free speach doesn't extend to shouting fire in a crowded theatre' was actually from a case where the judge was sentencing someone for handing out anti-war pamflets in WWI. The judge was framing this person's actions as being harmful to American interests.
Most people seem to use it without seeing that it was used in the context of curtailing the first amendment rights of citizens to openly oppose war.
No. Nazis should fuck off.
Devs should just fuck.