'Eco-Anarchists' Targeting Nuclear and Nanotech Workers

scibri writes, quoting Nature: "A loose coalition of eco-anarchist groups is increasingly launching violent attacks on scientists. A group calling itself the Olga Cell of the Informal Anarchist Federation International Revolutionary Front has claimed responsibility for the non-fatal shooting of a nuclear-engineering executive on 7 May in Genoa. The same group sent a letter bomb to a Swiss pro-nuclear lobby group in 2011; attempted to bomb IBM's nanotechnology laboratory in Switzerland in 2010; and has ties with a group responsible for at least four bomb attacks on nanotechnology facilities in Mexico. Another branch of the group attacked railway signals in Bristol, UK, last week in an attempt to disrupt employees of nearby defense technology firms (no word on whether anyone noticed the difference between an anarchist attack and a normal Wednesday on the UK's railways). A report by Swiss intelligence says such loosely affiliated groups are increasingly working together."

Comments

Re:self-deception was never my strong suit

[anagama]

What I want to know is how people deal with the cognitive dissonance of their (presumed) conviction that they're doing good, in the context of the methods that they're employing? Isn't there ever a moment of "Holy shit, my quest to make the world a better, more natural place is now manifest in me doing things like shooting nuns and throwing acid in infants' faces.

No.

Evidence: Drone Attacks. Afghanistan (the first 6-8 weeks were justified, but for the ensuing decade, we just killed a lot of innocent people and helped with the other side's recruiting propaganda). Iraq.

Why homosexualism but not incest?

[Anonymous Coward]

All of the common arguments for the normalisation
of homosexualism, such as "what consenting adults
do in their bed is neither right nor wrong" work equally
as well for polygamy, polyandry and incest.

So why the hypocrisy?

Re:Do they realise...

[Johann Lau]

You're not only ignorant as fuck, I doubt you have empathy to begin with, so don't brag about a causal relation that doesn't exist haha.