Eco-Anarchists Internationally Organize to Violently Attack Scientists
Groups of eco-anarchists are becoming more organized even internationally in violent attacks on scientists. Per the article:
A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has claimed responsibility for the non-fatal shooting of a nuclear-engineering executive on 7 May in Genoa, Italy. The same group sent a letter bomb to a Swiss pro-nuclear lobby group in 2011; attempted to bomb IBM’s nanotechnology laboratory in Switzerland in 2010; and has ties with a group responsible for at least four bomb attacks on nanotechnology facilities in Mexico. Security authorities say that such eco-anarchist groups are forging stronger links...The cell says that it is uniting with eco-anarchist groups in other countries, including Mexico, Chile, Greece and the United Kingdom...“These people do not represent mainstream opinion. But I am still pretty frightened by this violence,” says Michael Hagmann, a biochemist and head of corporate communications for the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology near Zurich, a public-sector partner of the IBM facility that also does nanotechnology research. “Just a few weeks after the attempted bombing, we were due to have a large conference on nanotechnology and we were really quite nervous” about going ahead with it, Hagmann says.
http://www.nature.com/news/anarchists-attack-science-1.10729
Tags: Eco-anarchists, Jubinsky
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Permalink Reply by John Lynch on -
If the goal is to stop global nuclear disaster I cannot argue with that but the methods are beyond reason when people die in carrying out these attacks. I don't have ant solutions but nuclear warfare is a serious matter I do not want to contemplate. Peace.
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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on -
Insanity has all manner of faces. We did NOT need another on top of all those we currently face!
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Permalink Reply by John Jubinsky on -
It is well documented that throughout history science has done much more good than harm. I see these attacks as at best a self-serving means of people of a demented mentality to have the spotlight put on them. I think they are about becoming important without having to earn the qualification.
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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on
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So they want their 15 minutes of fame. I wonder if they're going to like just HOW they get it?
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Permalink Reply by John Lynch on
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I am sure science has been more good than harm but the harmful aspects should be protested in a NON VIOLENT way. That is what I say in my first post. I was not promoting the violent method they employ. Peace
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Permalink Reply by John Jubinsky on
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Peace.
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