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According to its advocates, which include the Earth Liberation Front and similar terrorist groups ... [it] requires neither violence nor any direct confrontation with police, politicians, or other authority ...
The use of the term "terrorism" alongside the claim that ecotage does not require violence makes this sentence contradictory. Terrorism is also a term that it is almost impossible to deploy neutrally. Dirtbiscuit 05:56, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This article is pretty terrible (no offence). I have worked a definition based on an academic article... Would love to delete the rest and perhaps give examples of actions of enivironmental sabotage. This is not the place to argue the terrorist vs sabotage vs civil disobedience distinctions, merely a place to acknowledge the debate... -- Shg3 ( talk) 20:09, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Why does "monkeywrenching" redirect here? Monkeywrenching is a term that can refer to economic or political sabotage (and often does in common usage). This redirect isn't really appropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.90.217.181 ( talk) 09:44, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
FBI does not make ecotage different to eco-terrorism. [1] "Using the ideology of fighting for the environment, eco-terrorists direct their aggression against state institutions, corporations, businesses and individuals. In doing so, they hit the economy and civil liberties. The catalog of their activities includes such methods of action as: demonstrations, roadblocks, occupation of buildings intimidation, sabotage (so-called ecotage 15) including destruction of machines, releasing animals used for experiments, scientific experiments, bred for leather and fur and planting explosive charges in headquarters of biotechnological corporations, near homes of their directors, beatings, blowing up laboratories and sending threats to people conducting scientific research with the use of animals" [2] Geysirhead ( talk) 15:39, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
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This article was nominated for merging with Eco-terrorism on 15 July 2023. The result of the discussion ( permanent link) was no consensus. |
According to its advocates, which include the Earth Liberation Front and similar terrorist groups ... [it] requires neither violence nor any direct confrontation with police, politicians, or other authority ...
The use of the term "terrorism" alongside the claim that ecotage does not require violence makes this sentence contradictory. Terrorism is also a term that it is almost impossible to deploy neutrally. Dirtbiscuit 05:56, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This article is pretty terrible (no offence). I have worked a definition based on an academic article... Would love to delete the rest and perhaps give examples of actions of enivironmental sabotage. This is not the place to argue the terrorist vs sabotage vs civil disobedience distinctions, merely a place to acknowledge the debate... -- Shg3 ( talk) 20:09, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Why does "monkeywrenching" redirect here? Monkeywrenching is a term that can refer to economic or political sabotage (and often does in common usage). This redirect isn't really appropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.90.217.181 ( talk) 09:44, 9 October 2016 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
FBI does not make ecotage different to eco-terrorism. [1] "Using the ideology of fighting for the environment, eco-terrorists direct their aggression against state institutions, corporations, businesses and individuals. In doing so, they hit the economy and civil liberties. The catalog of their activities includes such methods of action as: demonstrations, roadblocks, occupation of buildings intimidation, sabotage (so-called ecotage 15) including destruction of machines, releasing animals used for experiments, scientific experiments, bred for leather and fur and planting explosive charges in headquarters of biotechnological corporations, near homes of their directors, beatings, blowing up laboratories and sending threats to people conducting scientific research with the use of animals" [2] Geysirhead ( talk) 15:39, 14 October 2022 (UTC)