From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 07:53:24 MDT
Technotranscendence wrote:
>
> 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.
The fact that they are all rural locations seemed to me to be indicative
that farmers were the target, but it wasn't specified if they were all
farms in those 'rural locations'. Also the fact that the FBI reports
that outside of one incident in Colorado they think is a copycat, all
bombs were left in a 70 mile radius in Illinois, and a 90 mile radius in
Nebraska, indicating that it is likely a group of people (at least two)
located in the communities in the center of the radii. These areas are
known to host luddite crop saboteurs.
And, actually, the text of the letter you cite indicates to me a
significant anarchist anti-globalization point of view with socialist
leanings. This is just the mindset of those who are most virulently
luddite (see www.tao.ca for more info).
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