HP the Victim of Enterprising Greenpeace Stunt

An anonymous reader writes "Employees at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto received a shock this morning as they checked their voicemail and found that each and every one of them had received a message from Captain James T. Kirk, AKA William 'The Shat' Shatner, upbraiding the company for abandoning their plans to remove toxins from its hardware. The organization behind this stunt was Greenpeace, who, to underline their point, scaled the building and painted 'Hazardous Products' on the roof with toxin-free paint."

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Anonymous Coward

[Anonymous Coward]

Someone should go to jail for trespassing.

Terrorist actions should not be overlooked.

Guess what Greenpeace? You lose!

[Fujisawa Sensei]

Hey Greenpeace, guess what, the paint thinner and sealant they're going to use to undo your vandalism is toxic!

Lusers!

Self defense

[Fujisawa Sensei]

Killing somebody for trespassing is murder, both morally and legally. If you really are worried about your safety, you would call the police first and only confront them when directly threatened. By purposely confronting them you increase the threat to yourself and anyone with you if they happen to really be dangerous.

On top of this, you're commenting about something that has happened to commercial property, not your private residence.

The World Trade Center was commercial property.

Greenpeace and PETA are nothing more the eco-terrorists and deserve to be hit with both RICO and Patriot Act.

Re:Self defense

[Fujisawa Sensei]

The world trade center was destroyed, not spraypainted.

Is still an attack on private property, where people work for ideological purposes.

Your reference to RICO and the Patriot Act are nonsensical, and it would be extremely unlikely for provisions of either act to be used to prosecute Greenpeace, even if they were killing people. In reality, you are making yourself appear to be dangerously crazed or seriously misinformed as to the nature of those Acts.

RICO can be used to go after the money; in the fact that the organization is a criminal enterprise.

The Patriot Act can be used in the fact that even an eco-terrorist, it still a terrorist.

This act was not intended to incite terror, nor was it terribly political in nature. Therefore Greenpeace cannot be labelled as terrorists of any flavor. Were there any demands issued? Ransoms? Threats? Did anyone get hurt?

The demand was simple, stop using certain chemicals; HP did not comply.

Eco-terrorism is defined by the FBI as "the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature."

They broke in and vandalized the building because HP would not give into their demands. By doing what they did they made a point beyond just the writing on the roof; they told HP that they can do whatever they wanted to. Kind of like leaving a dead horses head for somebody.

You may not like them, and frankly you're not alone. But calling them terrorists makes you look bad, not them. This is just a clever stunt---it doesn't even rise to the level of civil disobedience.

What they did goes beyond civil disobedience. As I said earlier, if HP does't comply with their demands to stop using poisonous chemicals, what's next arson?

I really must emphasize that you are working against yourself here. Your vehemence drives reasonable people away from your position, regardless of its merit. Howard Dean was a prime example of this.

Reasonable people don't tolerate this BS.

So...

[operagost]

When are the arrests? Trespassing and vandalism; perhaps libel.