This is creepy stuff you're digging up, David. It's especially disturbing given all the revelations of domestic spying. Indeed, the near-manic puffing up of the "threat" of quote-unquote ecoterrorism is no doubt designed to justify the spy program. Something tells me this Rovian spin campaign is falling flat with the public. Are the boys in the White House getting desperate, or what?

The only things threatened by 'ecoterrorism' (if it exists at all) is huge, environmentally destructive industries and corporations. Is it any surprise that our government, which is owned and controlled by big, destructive industries and corporations, is worried about the threat? Of course they will try to convert that threat into something that the American public should be worried about. I truly expect that 'they' will create at least one act of 'ecoterrorism' this year which injures innocent people and causes big property loss, and they will frame some environmental group, and then hang them out to dry for public viewing. As they gain control over the courts, and finish strangling our democracy, they will go after the rest of us, cloaked under the veil of 'national security'.

Convenient that 'Bin Laden' shows up and prompts us to pull our troops out just as Bush's 'stay as long as' plan becomes unpopular, isn't it? Every time Bush or the war fades out, enter the otherwise elusive and silent Bin Laden. Hmmm.

a liberal in redsville

It's appalling to me that the media geisha who attend this administration (I got that from Janeane Garafolo [sp?]) never question this pumped-up rhetoric, these more recent "claims of responsibility" or the government's motives in playing this thing to the hilt. What gives?

Thanks for tracking this stuff, David.

it is Dick Cheney`s Personal Agenda. Cheney hates enviros. he is a wyoming redneck, and the rednecks of the west, especially the loggers have been obsessed with ecoterrorists for years...ever, since the days of tree spiking by earth first....In idaho, the loggers used to treat earth first members, like niggers in mississippi, before civil rights.

in idaho logger country, earth firsters were beaten up, arrested, and thrown in jail by local law enforcement, judges and juries.