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Bill Tuthill

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This should be called political vandalism, not terrorism, because it's
not morally equivalent to e.g. a rush-hour train bombing in Madrid.
Terrorism has to kill people. That's my definition.

It's a fine line between justifying the destruction of property and killing
people.
These acts of destruction have always had the potential to be deadly, so I
still have to
classify them as act of terror.

About a year ago, a GMC/Hummer dealership in SoCal was vandalized.
Some Hummers were burned, and "ELF" spray painted on the doors.
I told my mom is was probably a college prank. Indeed, when somebody
was later caught (using surveillance video) he turned out to be

a student at some nearby campus.

But was he a member of ELF? My guess is that most of the members of ELF, ALF
and EF are nice upper middle class college types. That's were most of the
radical element of my day (the 70's) came from too.

If the group calling itself ELF takes credit for the act, I'm willing to
believe them.

SYOTR
Larry C.