From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 19:30:30 MST
On Monday, May 06, 2002 7:33 PM Mike Lorrey mlorrey@datamann.com wrote:
> If you've been following the news the past couple days, it seems that
> dozens of mailboxes at rural Nebraska farms have been booby trapped
with
> identical pipe bombs. Five people have been injured already. Notes
with
> the bombs say they are 'attention getters'. I would be interested in
> discerning the number of the recipients who farm with GMO crops... if
> they are all GMO farmers, it would indicate possibly that the Luddite
> terrorists are escalating their campaign to Kazinski-like levels.
The actual text of the message posted at the FBI web site (see
http://www.fbi.gov/pipebomb/letter.htm) has no luddite connotations.
The only connection to the Unabomber seems to be that these things are
put in mailboxes. I see no grounds for ideological equivalence here.
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
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