“illegal releases of animals”

“The indictment tells a story of four-and-a-half years of arson, vandalism, violence and destruction claimed to have been executed on behalf of the Animal Liberation Front or Earth Liberation Front, extremist movements known to support acts of domestic terrorism,” Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told reporters.

11 people have been indicted on “ecoterror” charges, such bullshit charges that include such things as the “illegal releases of animals”. Terrorist are running loose releasing minks back into nature, creating terror in the hearts and minds of every American citizen.
It is interesting to note that not a single living thing was harmed in any of the actions the “terrorists” are being charged with. All the “terror” was committed against property which I mean here to also refer to the victim’s animals (which got released before they were to be skinned or killed for various vain reasons)

Read the whole story here.

Viruses of the Mind

What angers Dawkins most is the way religion gets such an easy ride. “We treat it with a politically correct reverence that we don’t accord to any other institution,” he says. “Even secularists talk about Jewish, Catholic and Muslim children. There’s no such thing. Children aren’t born with a particular religious gene. What they are is children of Jewish, Catholic and Muslim parents. If you started to talk about monetarist or Marxist children, everyone would consider you abusive. Yet for religion we make an exception. We are incapable of distinguishing between race and religion. There is some statistical correlation between the two, but they are very different entities and we shouldn’t allow them to be confused.”

The Guardian has an interesting story on Richard Dawkins and his rising intolerance for religious ignorance.