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Eco-terrorism is an act of violence which is committed in support of environmental causes, against people or property. [1] [2]The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines eco-terrorism as "...the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or their property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental-political ...
Environmental terrorism consists of one or more unlawful or even hostile actions that harm or destroy environmental resources or deprive others of their use. [1] It is different to environmental vandalism , which is a rather permitted but ethically disputed destruction of environment.
Within these, it is some of the more extreme environmental and anti-abortion groups that have turned most toward vandalism and terrorist activities. [ 3 ] One well-known form of special-issue terrorism is environmental or eco-terrorism , which in the 1980s was the only type of special-interest terrorism included in FBI statistics. [ 4 ]
The German far-right has published the magazine Umwelt & Aktiv , that masquerades as a garden and nature publication but intertwines garden tips with extremist political ideology. [ 199 ] [ 200 ] [ 201 ] This is known as a "camouflage publication" in which the NPD has spread its mission and ideologies through a discrete source and made its way ...
Individualists Tending to the Wild (Spanish: Individualistas Tendiendo a lo Salvaje, ITS) is a self-defined eco-extremist [5] group that emerged in Mexico in 2011. [6] [7] The Mexican authorities have attributed some violent actions to it, but most of the attacks claimed by the group have been denied after judicial investigations and attributed to other groups or crimes other than terrorism.
The ideology often is a popular topic in private chat rooms frequented by White supremacist, neo-Nazi groups including The Base, which is a survivalism and self-defense network, the group’s ...
Extremism is "the quality or state of being extreme" or "the advocacy of extreme measures or views". [1] The term is primarily used in a political or religious sense to refer to an ideology that is considered (by the speaker or by some implied shared social consensus) to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of society. [2]
Under the broad label of “parental rights” the newly installed South Western School Board has set an agenda that works against the rights and well-being of its own students.