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- From: datkatz@scott.skidmore.edu (david atkatz)
- Subject: Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.141352.17358@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
- References: <1992Jul23.224139.26167@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:13:52 GMT
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- dean@vexcel.com (dean alaska) writes:
-
- >Wow. I thought a terrorist was someone who killed people in
- >order to create fear.
-
- carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
-
- >No, a terrorist is someone who engages in the systematic
- >use of terror, especially as a means to coercion.
- >Examples are:
- > o Pointing to Chernobyl as an example of how dangerous
- the nuclear reactors in the United States are, when the
- > designs are entirely different;
- > o Grossly overstating the amount and/or activity of spent
- > fuel elements from commercial power reactors in this country;
- > o Confusing the waste from nuclear weapons facilities (hell,
- they're DESIGNED to produce lots of radioactive stuff;
- > small wonder that they do) with the waste from commercial
- > nuclear reactors;
- > o Grossly overstating the amount of radiation released at
- TMI.
- >In each of these examples, ecoterrorists misrepresent things in order
- >to scare the uninformed, in order to force their policies through.
- >Sure sounds like a systematic use of terror to me.
-
- It does? Take a look at what you are saying:
-
- "pointing to," "grossly overstating," and "confusing,"
- are being equated to, e.g., bombing civilian
- airliners, machine gunning passengers at airports, beating
- airline passengers to death, shooting crippled cruise
- ship passengers, etc.
-
- Make much sense to you? I think there is a little
- problem of scale here.
-
- David
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