Fire is inherently associated with fear, although a major aspect of the action is the financial cost to the manufacturers and dealers and gaining attention. The aspect of political content may be more subjective. While it may be argued that the vehicles are legal, environmentalists may take a more ethical stance, arguing that was something is legal it is not necessarily mean that it is right. While legislation may force vehicle manufacturers to adopt more fuel-efficient standards for SUVs, it is possible for the manufacturers themselves to choose this path, adopting what the environmentalist may perceive ethical behavior. By creating a cost associated with continuing producing inefficient vehicles there may be a desire to create a fear that more attacks will occur, with the of these attacks possibly creating a motivation for the manufacturers to change, and for dealers to put pressure on manufacturers to change. In effect, environmentalists are trying to force change. In trying to force change, does this make the environmentalists domestic terrorists? It is often cited that one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. Interestingly, Prof Benizion Netenyahu has stated that by definition a freedom fighter is not capable of undertaking terrorist acts. It is argued that those seeking to force change in the name of freedom have the ethical high ground and they do not purposefully attack innocents. For example, they do not attack small children or passers-by (Netenyahu 18). For terrorists the attack of innocents can be attractive, as it helps to increase the level of terror associated with their actions in order to force change (Netenyahu 9). In this context those who attacked the SUVs may be seen as freedom fighters,...
In their attacks it is only property that is damaged, innocents are not directly harmed, and the attacks are directly on those who are deemed to be perpetrators. So while some of the definitions of terrorism appear to apply, they are also avoiding some of the more insidious characteristics associated with terrorism. However, it often serves the purpose of the media to attach names such as domestic terrorism in order to sensationalize the story and gain the attention of the reader.
ELF Earth Liberation Front (ELF) ELF Logo 2009 (Earth Liberation Front, N.d.) Eco-Terrorism Overview Examples of Eco-Terrorism Groups The Earth Liberation Front If a Tree Falls in the Woods: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Documentary) There are many people and/or groups who claim responsibility for the Earth Liberation Front's (ELF) development. The group is comprised of loosely affiliated or autonomous cells that are only bound by the idea that they can move beyond civil disobedience
So, the rightness of the claim that the CIA needed more money cannot be supported by the fruition of terrorist attacks. Hannity moves on into a discussion regarding immigration and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service -- or INS. Essentially, Hannity feels that the Immigration Act of 1965 makes it entirely too easy for illegal immigrants to exploit loopholes in the present legislation. In particular, he mentions how illegal immigrants
So who is an American and what an America can or cannot do are questions which are critical to the issue of legalizing immigrants. Does being an American mean you cannot show allegiance to any other country? The images of people raising and waving Mexican flag had enraged many but it need not have. It should be accepted that people who come from different countries would forever hold in their
Market Analysis The third principle, that markets that don't exist can't be analyzed, reminds managers that assessing the effects of disruptive technologies is often counter-intuitive to good management practice. Many companies require the development of a business case and a business plan for new products. This approach is generally very successful when applied to sustaining technological innovations, because the market is well-known; however, when companies apply this strategy to new, emerging
However, a closer review would reveal that threats arising from human migration patterns are sufficiently different from those associated with numerous other aspects of societal change to be considered a single issue. The appropriate response to mitigating the risks of natural disaster, climate changes, and energy needs are very different from those that are appropriate to address the risks from terrorism targeting energy production facilities and infrastructure. Similarly, while organized
Steps were also taken to organize a stock market in Lahore (Burki, 1999, pp.127-128). Also organized during this period were the Pakistan Industrial and Credit Investment Corporation (PICIC) and the Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan (IDBP), both of which were important to industrial development, obtaining "large amounts of capital from the World Bank, the former for investment in large industries, the latter in relatively smaller enterprises" (Burki, 1999, p. 128). This
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