B.C. pipeline attacks raise spectre of terrorism

[wulf42]

Apparently no one gets murdered in Texas.

They might get murdered but the people who did it will only ever do it once!.................We need Texas style justice here in a big way!

[fellowtraveller]

Reporting of crimes certainly rose.

I don't believe much of it.

One thing that has changed is that police groups everywhere are increasingly aware of what it takes to get more money and more cops and bigger budgets.

Like any big bureaucracy in a large industry, they are expert at making numbers sit up and bark on command.

[kengs333]

No such thing. Terrorists tend to start small, and then they like the publicity and attention so much they want to make bigger and bigger bangs to get more press attention. A perfect example is the current controversy in the US regarding Obama and William Ayers. Remember that Ayers group started out blowing up statues. Pretty innocent. But they graduated into nail bombs - or would have if the bomb didn't blow up and kill them.

I'd like to see them run a pipline through your backyard against your will and see how you start to play semantics with the term "terrorist".

[Argus]

I'd like to see them run a pipline through your backyard against your will and see how you start to play semantics with the term "terrorist".

I suspect you have a rather exaggerated view of the term "back yard".

"Yeah, they ran it practically through my back yard! Well, it's ten miles south, but that's practically the same thing!"

[Sir Bandelot]

Why is someone attacking these pipelines? I am guessing it has to do with a land dispute, maybe natives, or to do with a public health issue.

Apparently they are sending letters to the media. Does anyone know what they say?

Edited November 2, 2008 by Sir Bandelot